Pebble Time with Michael – Day 19
I’m always ordering things from the web, usually from Amazon. It seems that in any given week I’ve got one or more packages on their way to my home. Heck, it wasn’t that long ago that one such package was of extreme interest to me – the package from Pebble that contained my Pebble Time!
So over time I’ve used a variety of web-based and mobile device-based tools to track the status of incoming packages. I was very happy to discover one such app for my Pebble Time: Deliveries.
Deliveries is described as a “universal package tracker”, in that it supports tracking of packages delivered by a variety of US-based and international carriers. These include USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL, TNT, Canada Post, Royal Mail, and many, many others.
The application does this job quite well. When you start it up on your Pebble Time it lists all of the current packages you are tracking. Selecting one causes the application to issue a tracking query to the appropriate carrier and then display the results on the watch’s screen.
The only problem I have with the application is that in order to enter the tracking number and nickname associated with the package of interest, you need to use the Pebble Time application on your phone to access the Deliveries application settings and enter it there. Now, realistically I really don’t see any practical way to enter this information directly into the Pebble Time, but it still feels like extra work to me to reach for the phone, start up the Pebble Time application, and enter the data then and there. Once entered, the phone need not be touched again, but it still somehow bothers me to have to perform this “extra step” on my phone. Nevertheless, once this data is entered the app serves the function of package tracker quite well. I suspect I’m just being excessively picky regarding this topic!