I'm just very unoptimistic that this won't come back as corporate garbage and not remotely resembling what it once was.
The people doing the revival have been working to keep the original pebbles working for years now. I think they're really passionate about the watch, and that gives me hope for the revival.
It sounds like "the people" is just Migi, unless I'm misunderstanding. The guy who EEE'd Beeper.
How did Migi embrace, extend, and extinguish Beeper‽
Everything is closed source now.
The beeper apps were never open source to begin with, but all the bridges are and will continue being.
Where did you read that? The github pages are all still open and receiving updates, you can still self-host the bridges and its under the apache-2.0 license, just like it's always been.
The best part is you can make your own!
Nothing else ever really achieved what the peobble did. I just wanted a cheap second point of interaction with my phone.
After it went under the industry has doubled down on insane cost, pointless features, abysmal battery life.
I don't get it. Pepple made all the right trade offs and the third party support was incredible.
I hope this works out.
Never trust or buy something from a Alphabet company. They will always cancel the project and leave you high and dry.
Their track record speaks for itself.
But this doesn't have anything to do with alphabet? They just open sourced the code.
Yes, true, but irrelevant in this case.
Interesting to see if it will be better than Bangle JS 2, the spiritual successor to Pebble. That's the one I've been using a few years and I still like it a lot.
Somehow I missed out on this device when searching for open watches, thanks for the info.
Just want to shout out my PineTime. no one seems to be talking about it. Its a nice piece of kit for $35.
I just went to take a look at it, its €65, I don't see a price anywhere near $35?
and then i saw they had an e-reader and got all excited... They charge €610 for that thing, holy crap that's stupid expensive.
PineTime has been the only watch I've liked since my pebble, but it is a downgrade to my overall experience. If I want a good battery life (great, even) I can't have an always on screen, and I miss the physical buttons for interacting without looking. The vibration motor is solid, though.
I will miss my 28 day long battery when I leave it. Hopefully a new pebble can achieve a similar battery life.
I loved my PebbleSteel but the build quality just wasn’t there. Had two go bad after a very short time with button issues. When Pebble got sold i begrudgingly moved to an Apple Watch and have been ok with it. I do wish Apple offered an E-ink display tho. I’d gladly trade display colors and screen resolution for a multi-day battery and lower prices.
I’m all in on the Apple ecosystem but won’t get an Apple Watch for that reason. Besides the fact that I already get distracted enough, I can’t bear to have a wearable that won’t make it 24 hours without a charge. Resistance to that level of obligation is the same reason I never bought a Tamagotchi.
we've got pineWatch so why not pebble? PineWatch is OK but it's.not pebble. It was an amazing low tech that was actually extremely useful
I'm not in to smart watches, but I'm happy this is happening. A couple of friends really liked the pebble and were sad to see it go.
If you click "no" on the website it takes you to the Google pixel watch site. My goodness that thing is ugly.
I ran my Pebble Time into the ground, so I'm hyped as fuck for this. I bought it in my early highschool years and wore it nearly daily until last year when the rumble motor finally gave out. Still wear it from time to time, but it not buzzing for notifications is a bit of a deal breaker for me.
I bought a replacement and it's so pristine I didn't want to risk slowly damaging it at work, but now I'm charging that bitch up and running it into the ground until new Pebble comes out. Thanks for sharing OP, this news made me week!
Bonus, here's what mine looked like as of a few years ago right when the vibration went out. You can see I slapped a skin on it to cover up the bezel scratches, but the screen still looks totally fine!
I miss my Pebble Time Round every day, it's the only smart watch that I owned that I actually liked. I even bought a second and got it running via Rebble.
They both died due to a swollen battery but I've been pining for something similar for years! Hope this pans out
Same. I bought one of those ifixit kits and tried to repair mine, but it turns out the wires are very small and I couldnt get everything hooked back in.
I thought about trying but decided it wasn't worth it. IIRC there was like ONE guy who had the batteries and could do it if you mailed it to him lol.
All on I actually bought 4 time rounds in addition to my OG Pebble, as my wife had two as well. She's just as stoked as I am. Big Pebble fans all around!
Definitely interested in trying this. I've got an Android smart watch and I'm really disappointed in the lack of customisation and integration with stuff.
Loved my pebble watch, got burned with kickstarter campaign for pebble 2 (bid lost money gone when it was cancelled because fibbit taking over right at this moment).
Since then I went back to Casio and will not look at a computer on a wrist anymore, not even Apple Watch or repebble.
I ♥️ my Casio F-91W
Picture taking a dump;
Pants down;
Is that a g-string?
Great watch though
Which business model are they going for - screwing over their former employees? Or selling access to something that doesn't belong to them? Or are they going to try to combine them both this time?
The former pebble employees at Google worked hard to get the OS open source, so I think it's fair to assume they were hoping for this outcome. And the repebble team (who are the ones"bringing it back") have been working on providing support and keeping the original pebble watches going for years now.
I’m confused what you’re asking. Google opens sourced the pebble code, which they acquired from their purchase of Fitbit, who acquired it when they purchased pebble. Repebble is an open source project that has been trying to keep the original pebble watches working since Fitbit shut pebble down.
Under the Apache License 2.0 license, no less! Nice!
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