New Smartwatches Support PebbleOS with Long Battery Life and E-Paper Displays
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Core Time 2 builds on the Pebble Time 2 concept with a 1.5-inch, 64-color e-paper display, a metal frame, and a touchscreen alongside physical buttons. It includes a heart rate monitor, IPX8 water resistance, microphone, and speaker, while maintaining an estimated 30-day battery life. A flat glass lens is designed to reduce glare.
Both watches run open-source PebbleOS, supporting over 10,000 existing Pebble apps and watchfaces. Some apps may require updates for full compatibility. A companion app for Android and iOS is in development, along with an updated SDK for developers to create new applications.
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Pebble is Back: Introducing Two Open-Source Smartwatches
At the end of January, we shared some exciting news: after spending nine years in obscurity, the iconic Pebble smartwatches were on the verge of making a comeback. But guess what? Things just got even better.
The folks at rePebble have just unveiled Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2, two brand-new devices running an open-source PebbleOS. These watches promise a healthy dose of nostalgia—featuring that iconic e-paper always-on display and reliable physical buttons—while delivering modern conveniences like improved battery life, speaker functionality, and broader app compatibility.
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Pick Up A Pebble Again
A decade ago, smartwatches were an unexplored avenue full of exotic promise. There were bleeding-edge and eye-wateringly expensive platforms from the likes of Samsung or Apple, but for the more experimental among technophiles there was the Pebble. Based on a microcontroller and with a relatively low-resolution display, it was the subject of a successful crowdfunding campaign and became quite the thing to have. Now long gone, it has survived in open-source form, and now if you’re a Pebble die-hard you can even buy a new Pebble. We’re not sure about their choice of name though, we think calling something the “Core 2 Duo” might attract the attention of Intel’s lawyers.
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The Pebble Smartwatch is back with the Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2 models running PebbleOS open-source firmware
The Pebble Smartwatch was first introduced in 2012 with a black and white e-Paper display, a week of battery life, and an amazingly successful Kickstarter company that raised over 10 million dollars. It was followed by the Pebble Time with a color display in 2015, and the Pebble 2 & Time 2 watches followed in 2016.