The Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback
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The OG smartwatch is getting a second life.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25280992

Google agreed to release Pebble OS to the public. As of Monday, all the Pebble firmware is available on GitHub, and Migicovsky is starting a company to pick up where he left off.

The company — which can’t be named Pebble because Google still owns that — doesn’t have a name yet. For now, Migicovsky is hosting a waitlist and news signup at a website called RePebble. Later this year, once the company has a name and access to all that Pebble software, the plan is to start shipping new wearables that look, feel, and work like the Pebbles of old.

  • hopesdead@startrek.website
    42·
    3 days ago

    Wait you had a Pebble 2? Most people never received them because the company went under and canceled orders before they officially got released.

    Are you sure you’re not thinking of Steel, Time or Round?

    • everett@lemmy.ml
      8·
      3 days ago

      Pebble 2 was released in “HR” and “SE” models. You’re thinking of the Pebble Time Steel 2.

    • Creat@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      3 days ago

      I also had a pebble 2 hr, even had two because I bought another one off eBay (unopened box). 3d printed some buttons and used is for many years until the battery basically died, and the software started to show it’s age. Notifications became unreliable and such things, making it kinda pointless.

      Still want nothing more than for it to work properly again. It’s easy enough to swap the battery, now with the ability to fix the software, there might be a point to it.