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I can only assume that the non-developer versions are glued shut.
Yes, they took some 'random' off the shelf watch for Pinetime with signed firmware. The name of watch is Y7. 'Random' means exactly this
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8114&pid=51139#pid51139
tllim is Thye Liang Lim - he e.g. signs letters to FCCThey even ship it to people still with original firmware and it needs erasing flash over SWD to unlock it.
Wow, that's a huge article!
Regardless of what the commenters in that Make article might say, seeing that actually makes me really excited about what Bangle.js adds.
Now I'm guessing here, but I don't see any screws on the watch so I can only assume that the non-developer versions are glued shut. I wonder how developer friendly it'll end up being unless you're pretty hardcore...
Also, just look at the raw power of compiled Rust driving the graphics on that LCD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enoZVIg-6Fg
That's obviously early code but I think Bangle.js will have significantly better graphics performance. It's the same LCD, but connected via an 8 bit parallel bus rather than SPI (which is limited to 8Mhz on nRF52832). I originally started making Espruino using a watch like that, but even with all kinds of crazy hacks (12 bit color, DMA) I just couldn't get decent graphics performance.