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I am resisting the new Pebble Time 2 smartwatch

March 24, 2025 — Nico Cartron

InfiniTime 1.13 - improved heart-rate algorithm and battery life, and more!

July 01, 2023 — Nico Cartron

A quick look at InfiniTime 1.12 "Olallieberry"

April 15, 2023 — Nico Cartron

Mostly under the hood stuff, but not only

Report on my first FOSDEM!

February 07, 2023 — Nico Cartron

I finally attended FOSDEM, THE Open Source event in Europe - here's a quick recap

PineTime with Sailfish OS 4.5.0.16 "Struven ketju"

February 06, 2023 — Nico Cartron

How to make your PineTime work again with SFOS 4.5

InfiniTime 1.11 "Red Nectarine" - using PineTime's external flash memory!

October 28, 2022 — Nico Cartron

No major features in that release, but it's preparing the ground for the future!

InfiniTime 1.10 "Yellow Mango" - dismiss notifications, timer UI and more

June 30, 2022 — Nico Cartron

Hardly 2 months after Limeberry, this release brings nice improvements, but also the usual bug fixes.

InfiniTime 1.9 "Limeberry" - What's New?

April 21, 2022 — Nico Cartron

3 months after Fuzzy Kiwi, InfiniTime 1.9 is there, with some new features and improvements, let's have a look!

One year of InfiniTime: what has been achieved?

January 24, 2022 — Nico Cartron

In this article, I am looking at all the things that happened in one year of development of InfiniTime, PineTime's default firmware.

InfiniTime 1.8 "Fuzzy Kiwifruit": BLE secure pairing, Shake to wake, Trip meter

January 10, 2022 — Nico Cartron

This release adds the long-awaited BLE secure pairing, and a couple of other nice features, improvements and bug fixes. Follow me!

InfiniTime 1.7 "Jackfruit" - Motion service, buttonHandler and new torchlight

November 13, 2021 — Nico Cartron

How about you can get the number of steps you walked synch'ed to your companion app? That's what this version brings, along with other nice improvements. Let's have a look!

PineTime's Infinitime Firmwares history

October 10, 2021 — Nico Cartron

This article aims at keeping track of Infinitime firmware versions: when they've been released, what they brought, and where to get them.

InfiniTime 1.6 "Ice Apple" - long standing BLE bug fixed!

October 05, 2021 — Nico Cartron

Yup, you're reading that correctly: a new InfiniTime release is available hardly 3 days after 1.5 (Huckleberry). But there's a really good reason for that!

InfiniTime 1.5 "Huckleberry": Alarm app and more

September 27, 2021 — Nico Cartron

The InfiniTime development is not slowing down any time soon: we now have a very nice Alarm app, along with some improvements around battery reading, doc and BLE advertising.

InfiniTime 1.4 "Pink Grapefruit": Touch, UI and battery level improvements

September 03, 2021 — Nico Cartron

This release includes many improvements, making InfiniTime a lot smoother to use.

PineTime: steps counter accuracy

August 27, 2021 — Nico Cartron

How accurate is a $25 smartwach pedometer? Let's find out!

InfiniTime 1.3 "Purple Fig" : LittleFS + Style watchface

July 29, 2021 — Nico Cartron

One month after Blue-purple Elderberry / 1.2.0, "Purple Fig" 1.3.0 is out and brings both visible and (most importantly in my opinion) super nice, non visible improvements. Let's have a look!

Interview with Lukasz Erecinski, Pine64's Community Manager

July 22, 2021 — Nico Cartron

Continuing with the interviews around the PineTime community.
After JF (InfiniTime lead dev) and Lup (Bootloader lead dev), this time I am interviewing Lukasz from Pine64.

InfiniTime Blue-purple Elderberry - stability & Metronome app

June 22, 2021 — Nico Cartron

Exactly one month after Dragon Fruit / 1.1, here's another InfiniTime release, bringing stability, a new Metronome app, and the support of a new accelerometer (the BMA425).

Interview with Lup, creator of PineTime's bootloader

June 05, 2021 — Nico Cartron

After the interview I did with JF, I am now discussing with Lup Yuen, who created the first bootloader for our beloved PineTime.

InfiniTime 1.1 "Dragon Fruit" - yum!

May 24, 2021 — Nico Cartron

Barely one month after InfiniTime's first stable release, "Dragon Fruit" is available, bringing new features and more stability.

First look at PineTime's InfiniTime 1.0 Release Candidate 1

April 18, 2021 — Nico Cartron

We're getting super close to a 1.0 release of InfiniTime, PineTime's firmware by JF!
Keep reading to see all the new exciting features embedded in that version!

Interview with JF, InfiniTime's creator

April 05, 2021 — Nico Cartron

In this article, I am interviewing JF, who is working on the PineTime firmware since October 2019.

JF walks us through InfiniTime, from the first developments, up to the latest ones, which I have been documenting on this blog.

InfiniTime "Yellow Banana" - Stopwatch / dual watchfaces!

March 21, 2021 — Nico Cartron

Yet another InfiniTime release, bringing 2 exciting new features: a stopwatch and two watchfaces, which can be swapped at will!

Keep reading to know more :)

PineTime's InfiniTime: New bootloader, and a recovery firmware!

March 10, 2021 — Nico Cartron

We're barely into March, and there's already some news on the front of InfiniTime!
Nothing really new per se, but when you scratch the surface, you'll see that it's a "building block" for future InfiniTime releases.

Follow me and let's upgrade together!

PineTime's InfiniTime 0.14.0 "Green Avocado" - all about LVGL!

February 25, 2021 — Nico Cartron

3rd InfiniTime update in February 2021 - I told you, the project is super hot!
So what does this version bring? Basically an update to the LVGL version, from 6 to 7.
Cool! But concretely? Keep reading to find out!

InfiniTime 0.13.0 - a quick look

February 23, 2021 — Nico Cartron

With this release, we're very close to having a fully functional (albeit basic) smartwatch. So let's dive in!

PineTime - Quick Review of InfiniTime versions 0.11.0 and 0.12.0

February 05, 2021 — Nico Cartron

InfiniTime is pretty active in this year's start, as we got 2 versions in 2 weeks!
Let's have a look at what those versions bring.

One week with my PineTime - a Feedback

January 30, 2021 — Nico Cartron

A follow-up on my previous posts about PineTime: what works, and what is missing.

Upgrading PineTime's InfiniTime firmware

January 24, 2021 — Nico Cartron

In the last post about PineTime, we looked at the basics of PineTime.

Now it's time to upgrade InfiniTime, PineTime's firmware :-)

PineTime on SailfishOS

January 22, 2021 — Nico Cartron

This post describes quickly the setup of a PineTime, a hackable and affordable smartwatch from Pine64.


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