When comparing LG Watch Urbane vs Pebble Time Round, the Slant community recommends LG Watch Urbane for most people. In the question“What is the best round smartwatch?” LG Watch Urbane is ranked 3rd while Pebble Time Round is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose LG Watch Urbane is:
If your watch is out of bluetooth range of your phone, it will connect to available Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi takes more power than bluetooth, but it allows you to not have to carry your phone all the time and still receive notifications.
Specs
Ranked in these QuestionsQuestion Ranking
Pros
Pro Built-in Wi-Fi
If your watch is out of bluetooth range of your phone, it will connect to available Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi takes more power than bluetooth, but it allows you to not have to carry your phone all the time and still receive notifications.
Pro Classical style
The bezel isn't too large, and especially from a distance it could be mistaken for a regular watch. It's the type of watch that you can wear everyday, even to work without looking like a computer on your wrist.
Pro Fitness tracking
There is a PPG Heart rate monitor on-board, and it will track your heart rate.
Pro Two color options
The watch is available in classy silver and shiny gold colors.
Pro Water and dust resistant
The product is IP67 certified. The certification guarantees that the product can be submerged up to a meter in water at room temperature for up to 30 minutes.
Pro Measures elevation
Built-in barometer is capable of measuring elevation.
Pro Replaceable watch bands
Urbane has standard 22mm watch bands.
Pro Compatible with most Android Wear apps
Because it is round there will be a few apps that don't work properly, but the vast majority of apps will work.
Pro Decent battery life
The watch will always allow for at least a full day (unless you are constantly playing games on it), but usually will last for 2 full days even with ambient mode on (always on). The OLED display helps with this - with a black background for watch faces the display isn't lighting up the black pixels, greatly reducing the power draw in ambient mode.
Pro 2 day battery life
Despite it's very thin body, it gets 2-2.5 days of actual use. If you usually have the brightness maxed out however, that could dip down to just a day and a half. Either way, it will last for at least a full day as well as a night (if you wear your watch to bed).
The watch also charges very quickly - 15 minutes will yield about 60% of a charge, and it will be fully charged in 30 minutes. In addition, SnartStraps are expected sometime in 2016. This is a larger strap that includes an extra battery, allowing your Pebble Time Round to last up to a full week between charges.
Pro Small and lightweight
While most smartwatches are very bulky and not super comfortable to wear, the Pebble Time Round is only 7.5mm thick and weighs 28g. Compare this with the 10.5mm and 50g Apple Watch or 9.7mm and 62g LG G Watch R, and you'll see that it's really thin and light for a smartwatch.
Pro Simple to use
On one side is a power button, and on the other side is a select button surrounded by up and down buttons. The Timeline UI is simple - press up to get to previous notifications, and down to scroll through upcoming calendar events or future events.
All navigation is done through the buttons, as there is no touch screen.
Pro Battery efficient display
To save battery, Pebble went with an e-paper display. This means that the screen will only draw power when its refreshing the image, saving battery life. The e-paper display is the main reason how Pebble could make the watch so thin and light.
Cons
Con Lacks built-in GPS
Some smartwatches have built-in GPS which allows them to track runs without needing to carry your phone with you, allowing you to use your watch as a fitness tracker. The Urbane doesn't have this ability.
Con Bulky
The G Watch R is 10.9mm thick and weighs 66g. It will take some time to get used to wearing it, especially if you previously haven't worn a watch.
Con No longer supported
Pebble was purchased by Fitbit and has ceased operations as well as selling. You can view more information about it here.
Con e-paper display
The display may be energy efficient, but it is low resolution (180x180) and pretty small at just 1". It's also hard to read outdoors because of how dim it is, and colors aren't as punchy as on OLED or IPS displays.
Con Huge bezels
The bezels are very large, even for a smartwatch (especially when compared next to a Huawei Watch or Moto 360). Some versions have numbers printed on the bezel which at least makes use of it, but then that also limits the watch faces you can use.
Con Limited app compatibility
The Pebble Time Round isn't compatible with all of Pebble's older apps which were designed for square watch faces. Also, because it's a propriety OS, it won't see the same level of developer support as Android Wear or Apple Watch OS.