Pebble Round 2 Brings Back Classic Smartwatch, Pre-Orders Now Open

Pebble contiguous announced that it is bringing backmost the Pebble Time Round, 1 of its astir iconic smartwatches from a decennary ago. The caller Pebble Round 2 builds connected the Pebble Time Round, eliminating immoderate of the compromises that had to beryllium made with the archetypal model.


The Pebble Round 2 features a bezel-free 1.3-inch colour e-paper display, and it comes successful matte black, brushed silver, and roseate gold. Advances successful Bluetooth exertion mean that it lasts for up to 2 weeks earlier needing to beryllium recharged, and it remains arsenic bladed arsenic the original.


The instrumentality runs the open-source PebbleOS operating system, and it is designed to enactment with iOS and Android smartphones. It supports basal slumber tracking and enactment tracking, but it is not a fittingness watch, truthful determination is nary bosom complaint tracking.

Pebble creator Eric Migicovsky brought backmost the Pebble marque earlier this twelvemonth aft Google released the root codification for PebbleOS. After going bankrupt successful 2016, Pebble was sold to Fitbit, and past Fitbit was bought by Google.

Migicovsky has been vocal astir however Apple's restrictions for third-party smartwatches bounds however the Pebble works with an iPhone. He has complained that Apple makes it "nearly impossible" for third-party wearable developers to make an acquisition that mirrors the Apple Watch experience.

The Pebble Round 2 tin beryllium pre-ordered from the rePebble website for $199, and it is acceptable to vessel retired to customers successful May.
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