Pebble is back! New smartwatch is coming!

Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky is planning to revive the Pebble smartwatch brand, eight years after the company shut down. Today, Google open-sourced PebbleOS, enabling the community to restore functionality to old Pebble devices – a move Migicovsky initiated by reaching out to Google.

Migicovsky and a small team are now developing new hardware: a “Pebble-like smartwatch” running open-source PebbleOS. It will feature an always-on e-paper screen, long battery life, a simple user experience, buttons and hackability. A Pebble-compatible app called Cobble is also in development, with Android already supported and iOS coming soon.

Details on the smartwatch’s release date and specs are pending, but interested users can sign up for early invites. It remains to be seen how the revived Pebble will compete in today’s smartwatch market.

Source: Android Authority

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