{"id":461,"date":"2020-09-07T02:22:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T02:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/?p=461"},"modified":"2020-09-07T02:22:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T02:22:14","slug":"new-scuba-toy-shearwater-peregrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/2020\/09\/07\/new-scuba-toy-shearwater-peregrine\/","title":{"rendered":"New Scuba Toy &#8211; Shearwater Peregrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just bought a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shearwater.com\/products\/peregrine\/\">Shearwater Peregrine<\/a> as a backup for my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shearwater.com\/products\/perdix-ai\/\">Shearwater Perdix AI<\/a> (budget didn&#8217;t\u00a0quite stretch to a second Perdix..)<\/p>\n<p>Haven&#8217;t dived it yet, but following are my immediate unboxing impressions (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3jQIprG\">pictures<\/a>\u00a0(via Google image search)).<\/p>\n<h2>The good:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Familiar layout and the same great screen as the Perdix.<\/li>\n<li>Smaller and lighter form factor than the Perdix.<\/li>\n<li>Mostly full-featured recreational dive computer with some intro-to-tec features.\n<ul>\n<li>No AI\/compass<\/li>\n<li>Up to 100% O2 and 3 gases<\/li>\n<li>Lots of &#8220;tec&#8221; displays<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Built-in battery charging is via the Qi wireless standard, so absolutely no exposed contacts.\n<ul>\n<li>But due to wrist-straps\/bungees it may be difficult to use generic Qi charging pads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Dive download via Bluetooth (hopefully works better than the Perdix!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The bad:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Buttons are physical rather than the piezo-electric ones from the Perdix (subjective).<\/li>\n<li>Battery is a built-in rechargeable battery (subjective).<\/li>\n<li>Limited display customisation (as compared to the Perdix).<\/li>\n<li>Screen protector\u00a0is a standard thin protector rather than the thick gel-like one of the Perdix.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The ugly:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The charging pad uses a micro-USB cable rather than USB-C (for a brand-new product, I would expect it to use the latest standards)<\/li>\n<li>Still fairly large (although required to support the screen, the bezel _could_ be a bit smaller given the target market)<\/li>\n<li>No compass or Air Integration (for the price-point, many competing products offer these features)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just bought a Shearwater Peregrine as a backup for my Shearwater Perdix AI (budget didn&#8217;t\u00a0quite stretch to a second Perdix..) Haven&#8217;t dived it yet, but following are my immediate unboxing impressions (pictures\u00a0(via Google image search)). The good: Familiar layout and the same great screen as the Perdix. Smaller and lighter form factor than the Perdix. Mostly full-featured recreational dive computer with some intro-to-tec features. No AI\/compass Up to 100% O2 and 3 gases Lots of &#8220;tec&#8221; displays Built-in battery charging is via the Qi wireless standard, so absolutely no exposed contacts. But due to wrist-straps\/bungees it may be difficult to use generic Qi charging pads. Dive download via Bluetooth (hopefully works better than the Perdix!) The bad: Buttons are physical rather than the piezo-electric ones from the Perdix (subjective). Battery is a built-in rechargeable battery (subjective). Limited display customisation (as compared to the Perdix). Screen protector\u00a0is a standard thin protector rather than the thick gel-like one of the Perdix. The ugly: The charging pad uses a micro-USB cable rather than USB-C (for a brand-new product, I would expect it to use the latest standards) Still fairly large (although required to support the screen, the bezel _could_ be a bit smaller [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,29],"tags":[85,82,83,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}