Following the hugely successful campaign for the new Pebble Time, Pebble is back with two new products: smartstraps and a whole new Pebble, the Pebbble Time Steel. Let’s start with smartstraps – an idea so simple it’s almost silly that Google and Apple didn’t come up with it first.
Rather than trying to shove every sensor and doohickey into the Pebble Time, we decided to keep the watch simple and functional and give our incredible maker and developer community the opportunity to build from there. Up until now, if you wanted it all you had to compromise… On battery life, size, design or feature set. Not anymore.
That’s why we created Pebble smartstraps. It’s simple: straps can now contain electronics and sensors to interface directly with apps running on Pebble Time.
Second, the Pebble Time Steel. It’s a more luxurious, metal version of the Pebble Time, but aside from its more premium feel and design, it also sports a larger battery (10 days of use instead of 7 days) and its screen is bonded with the glass. For the rest, it’s identical to the Time. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’m totally loving the gold version with the red band – for a square watch, it simply looks really, really good.
In fact, for me, that specific model is the first Pebble I’d consider wearing. It combines an attractive design with Pebble’s superior (over Wear and the Apple Watch) functionality. This could be a winner.
Seems that Thom has a hard-on for pretty watches. Maybe we should change the name of this site to FashionNews?
That and phones, enough already. Thanks.
Non of these smart watches are pretty. They all look kluncky even in the stylized publicity photos.
Funny.
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Edited 2015-03-03 20:49 UTC
In fact, even more funny when you remember Thom’s opinion in a previous article: “You can’t buy taste – the rumoured one million gold Apple Watches are proof enough of that.”
So, golden painted steel is good taste and solid 18k gold is bad taste. Logical.
Edited 2015-03-03 21:23 UTC
he’s got you there thom
Is this a gold Apple Watch?
Okay, I know Android Wear is (at the moment, at least) pretty crap, but how do you know what functionality the Apple Watch will offer? Not trying to troll, genuine question here. Has there been some kind of in-depth article or press release explaining what exactly the iWatch is capable of? If so, mind pointing me in the right direction?
That aside, yeah, the Pebble looks like a reasonably functional bit of kit.
The Apple Watch doesn’t exist, so it has 0 functionality.
We have heard what it might do and how it might do that during the last Apple Keynote and there will be another announcement very soon followed by the final availability probably next month.
But let’s hype up that non-existing thing that will cost more than most decent smartphones a bit more okay?
The main problem with Pebble is that Apple invented the SmartWatch – that’s hard to overcome.
Insert random [Not sure if serious] meme..