Pebble Watch Returns: It Might Be Exactly What the Smartwatch Landscape Needs
It can be traced back to 2014. On my wrist, I almost always wear cute ones Digital watch of black and white screen It looks like Casio, or a small game boy. It showed me time and wrist notification, which was enough. These are my pebble era, I miss them. Pebble Now it’s coming to make a comebackIn 2025. This is an impossible event. Kickstarter-Launchate’s guardian company created by Eric Migicovsky (Eric Migicovsky) was swallowed Acquisition from FitbitThen Philip Acquisition by GoogleEssence
The identity of pebble disappeared. But Google has been released Pebble OS free to githubThe original founder of Pebble announced that he would bring his smart watch back. This news is blue, but when I hear the news, I think that my favorite gum is restored to fashion. Since those ancient pebbles, I have never really felt like pebbles.
Pebble’s founder Migicovsky is focusing on a new company such as pebbles. He A single new pebble model This will run the old operating system and cut off new applications and ideas. “I just like small tools,” Migicovsky told me. “I just want to make small tools, because I want them.” Compared with the cobblestone mission 10 years ago, Migkovsky was satisfied with making small tools for people interested in groups. This is the return of pebble’s independence, which is first of all.
Migicovsky said that he contacted Google, the open source of Pebbleos a year ago, and Google agreed. The process of making new pebble watches is much faster. He said that the components are rich and the design process is quickly combined.
Moblism may be other devices similar to the spirit, but the current goal is the return of my very familiar old -fashioned wearable friend in 2025. I miss pebbles, this may be a good time to return.
Sadly, at least as far as we know, the pebble rings have not come back.
Simple and good
As early as the pebble era, most people I knew were wearing old -fashioned watches, and the intelligent function of pebbles was like the future. Now, most people seem to wear smart watches, and I see posts about people who want to wear daily watches again.
The return of pebble is not to secretly enter the daily life in the future. This will be an excessive smart thing to make it less impatient and lower -key. I think of the recent obsession with social media BOOX PALMAThis is a mobile phone ink -level computers that people seem to like, because it is not so needed, so flashy or too smart. Just like my Kindle, it is my breakthrough from other screens, some offline experience. The cobblestone watches may eventually feel the same.
The new pebbles will not have a touch screen, only like old buttons. They will be square, plastic black and white pebbles, not round, steel or color screens (as we know). They will be simple. It sounds a bit good.
We are in the period when we are injected into all content, and we secretly integrate into the earplugs, watches and glasses. This is the opposite of the place where pebble watches were launched for the first time, which implied that it was coming. Now, its classic style can help eliminate some interference that is conducive to other things, such as longer battery life.
One week between allegations?
Migicovsky told me that the new Pebble will have a weekly battery life and it will have such an interesting electronic paper display that makes the old model. It is always standard on smart watches, but the one -week battery life is definitely not.
Garmin watch and other wearable devices (such as Fitbits and withings scanning There are indeed longer battery life, and many of them are biased towards fitness/health. The charm of pebbles is more about the surface surface of the whimsical openness, although the new pebbles will make a step -by -step counting like the pebbles last time.
I succumb to the daily smart watches, or at best every day. I miss the past time.
There will be only one pebble design this time, but I really like the steel version.
An interesting idea, and wearable device reshape itself
I pebble reminds me of another favorite little tool in the past few years, PanicEssence The panic’s whimsical micro -game handheld handheld handheld handheld handheld can run various games and homemade projects. Migicovsky is very excited about the possibility of custody on pebbles and pointed out that it can accelerate even if the encoding can be accelerated.
There will be no new sensors on the new pebble. It is expected that low -energy Bluetooth is the main way to interface with other device. Migicovsky did not re -examine the idea of ​​PEBBLE’s smart belt.
Migicovsky saw three steps: making new hardware, updating software bits (including new Bluetooth drivers), and letting the developer community dream of building new applications and watching faces again. New pebbles will run old pebble applications and watch faces, but will more ideas start to sprout?
This may be the best time to play a fun, but black smart watch. Existing smart watches have become a set of predictable features: mobile payment, telephone and fitness tracking. In the next few years, the watch may become an agent partner of AI injection, equipped with a camera sensing system expansion, or the gesture partner of smart glasses. There will be no mobile payment, call or track your marathon-but this may be the real substitution of the smart watches we already have. I want to see how to wear my own feelings again.
