dmoreno parent
Anybody know if there is some effort for an open source firmware? It would be so cool to have a watch like that with the pinetime firmware...
Why not the software itself? https://github.com/google/pebble
Or the whole stack: https://open-smartwatch.github.io/
You may like Pinetime smartwatch, which is cheap and runs free software.
I would totally support the Pine64 folks as I already did with the PineCil (really good iron btw, and I have also Wellers), but the PineTime price going from $26.99 in the US to €66.25 if bought in the EU is simply an invite to shop from Aliexpress.
Thanks to tariffs, the PineTime is $26 plus $25 shipping+duty now, so you're in good company.
If a few people in the bay area wanted to do a group buy, you can get up to 5 watches for that same $25 shipping fee...
AFAIK you don't have to buy it in their EU shop. You can order it from China.