google announcement: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensource.googleblog.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;01&#x2F;see-code-that-powered-pebble-smartwatches.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensource.googleblog.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;01&#x2F;see-code-that-powe...</a>pebbleOS repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;pebble">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;pebble</a>

That&#x27;s actually a blog post from rebble.io. I added a link to the open-source repo to the top text there. Is there an actual announcement from Google?

The announcement from Google: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=42845017">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=42845017</a>

True. I used it after Pebble went away -- Gadgetbridge helped extend the watch&#x27;s life a few more years. I bought a PineTime as a sort of replacement for my Pebble Time about 18 months ago. An OK watch and, as one blogger I read noted, it&#x27;s just smart enough.

Also cautious. Extremely cautions.I got rug pulled by &quot;the pebble team&quot; the first time, leaving me with 3 watches they effectively bricked.. Not gonna sign up for that again.(I got a refund on my last Pebble order. When the money showed up I drunk-ebayed a 2nd hand ~40 year old mechanical watch. I now have about 20 wind up or mechanical auto winding watches. I do have a few chinese ~$40 &quot;smart watches&quot; that do an OK job of notifications on my wrist, and a somewhat questionable job of heartrate and blood pressure monitoring, and one that produces totally random numbers for blood glucose reading whether it&#x27;s on my wrist or not. I almost never wear any of those. I&#x27;ve got a Watchy kit, and open source epaper ESP32 watch, but I&#x27;ve had it maybe a year and haven&#x27;t found the enthusiasm to assemble it.)

I never had a pebble. Also, I was really skeptical of the Flipper Zero, but my curiosity finally got the best of me and I bought one. I love their app ecosystem and the whole experience of using it. If Pebble 2 has that kind of UX, it&#x27;s going to be really awesome.

Excited (cautiously) about this. Loved my Pebble Time and was gutted when 1) Pebble bit the dust, and 2) my Pebble vanished down that black hole things like small devices and the other sock invariably go down. If this happens, I hope they can keep the revived Pebbles just smart enough and rebuild the app ecosystem. Best of luck, folks. I&#x27;m cheering you on from the sidelines!

I have kept my Pebble WAITING for this day! Horayy!

Which watch has an e-ink(&#x2F;epaper) display? I can only think of Watchy. Pebble was LCD.

The notifications aren&#x27;t great, and the non-e-ink screen is a bit annoying. Also the low amount of physical buttons.But as someone who bought an OG Pebble and now has a Vivoactive 3, I think the fitness features are too nice to switch back fully to Pebble. Although I&#x27;ll be very glad to see Pebble back!

Garmin Fenix 7 (and potentially Garmin Fenix 8 Solar) are reasonably button-y and kindof work &quot;right&quot; from a pebble fan.The biggest miss for most smartwatches is &quot;buttons&quot;, &quot;battery life&quot; and &quot;sunlight-readable screen&quot;.Buttons work without sight, buttons work in the shower (next track, volume, scrolling a notification, declining a phone call, stopping a timer), buttons can be &quot;memorized&quot;, you can navigate buttons while riding a bike, and &quot;button-centric&quot; means you&#x27;re focused on _only the essential_ capabilities. Ok. Next&#x2F;Prev. Cancel&#x2F;Back. Long-Press for shortcuts or confirmations. The discipline of designing for small, focused, essential interactions is so much better (when done well) than attempting to stab react components shifting around on your wrist or swiping in random directions on a slow-to-respond screen.Charging &quot;every other week&quot; means I can go on a weeks vacation, charge the watch before going, and not need to worry about or bring another charger.Sunlight-readable (non-lighted, non-distracting) screen means I can glance down and see the current time [with no wrist movement], and I don&#x27;t have a bright light turning on and off (most of the time).The biggest miss for the Fenix compared to Pebble is&#x2F;was &quot;The Timeline&quot; from Pebble. On the home screen, you could basically scroll through your upcoming calendar events to kindof keep you on track. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XYZoWS0QxI8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XYZoWS0QxI8</a>The biggest opportunity for &quot;Pebble2.0&quot; is the hybrid button&#x2F;scroll feature from Garmin Fenix. Fenix has an option to &quot;pinch&quot; opposing buttons for ~3 seconds to enable&#x2F;disable the touch screen. Additionally, the touch screen can be used for (eg) scrolling a map around. To me, this is great as I _very rarely_ want to accidentally brush the screen (or have a toddler poking at it) and messing with things... but being able to &quot;opt-in&quot; to touch-screen under specific apps or circumstances is actually a really cool compromise!Needless to say, I&#x27;m an insta-buy for Pebble, and very hopeful (especially since the O.S. is open source?!?!) that they&#x27;ll steward us functionality-based watch nerds in the right direction!

Fair that I do seem to be asking for MBA speak. Not my intent.For me, the big mental block is that I can&#x27;t think of much I want to do from my watch. A readable screen is obviously nice. So is advanced battery life. But, if I&#x27;m going to be dipping into health tracking, it seems Garmin is the baseline there.The UX flow is one that has me somewhat intrigued. How often are you interacting with the device? And for what reasons?

I&#x27;m not sure you can put it in MBA language like &#x27;specific pitch&#x27; or &#x27;value add&#x27;, you had to try it and see if it felt right for you.The watch had a pretty coherent ux flow for a non-touchscreen device, and could be easily used with gloves on without even looking at the watch in some scenarios (e.g. shortcutting to music controls). It later paired some unique animations to make things feel friendly and a bit quirky ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slashgear.com&#x2F;pebble-hires-webos-designers-for-ui-evolution-18341704&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slashgear.com&#x2F;pebble-hires-webos-designers-for-u...</a> ).Also there was a pretty decent hobbyist&#x2F;maker culture around the watch with the ideas of add-on accessories, etc.The challenge from a business standpoint mightve been needing to provide vc-backed startup returns without killing the culture that loved the product. I think they were trying to find a way to do a subscription for extra services.

Their software is pretty bad but the hardware has been pretty bulletproof for me and I&#x27;ve certainly never had one randomly freeze or reboot in the decade+ I&#x27;ve been using them. 
These are forerunners though. I haven&#x27;t used their &quot;fancier&quot; watches.

I went through two Garmins. Both failed in under 2 years (random freezes, random reboots, eventually leading to bricking). Fitness tracking and GPS would activate by themselves at random times for no visible reason. Buttons sometimes wouldn&#x27;t register. The proprietary charging cable was terribly designed - after a couple months, the springs inevitably fail and it starts losing contact with the watch, needing fiddling with the exact angle, blowing on the contacts, weighing down or attaching with scotch tape when charging for an extended time, etc.; basically, one learns to treat Garmin charging cables as a short-lived consumable. The software stack at least on Android is awful, and it&#x27;s very hard to get your data out of it.Considering how much these thing are hyped, I gaslit myself into thinking my first watch was a rare lemon, which is why I replaced it with another Garmin; but I won&#x27;t be fooled again.

I&#x27;ve had a garmin for ~3 weeks now. amy #2 use for a watch (after telling the time, of course) is to read texts without pulling out my phone, and so far the garmin ux for that has been way worse than the pebble&#x27;s. (not really used the fitness features much other than step tracking, which the pebble also did)

First, let me say it is always fun to see people having fun with hobbies like this. Cool to see them making headway and having fun!I&#x27;m curious what the specific pitch is on this device? I have, so far, avoided Garmin in the watch space, but I&#x27;m growing very short on justifications for that. Would love to hear what the general value add for other options is.

Fair enough!I was positive that some of the hype and&#x2F;or marketing around it called e-ink but it looks like either my recollection is bad, or the hype was wrong.

&quot;MIP&quot; ?I thought it was called transflective : for transmittive + reflective ?

&gt; I would have loved the e-ink concept continuously iterated.I&#x27;m probably gonna sound like a broken record in this thread but the Pebble never used e-ink, it used a MIP LCD, and MIP never went away. Lots of sports watches use the exact same display technology from the exact same supplier (Sharp) to this day.

Man, I got rid of my Pebble once they dropped support.  I love my current smartwatch, but I would have loved the e-ink concept continuously iterated.

It could be much worse: how many projects simply die because they’re locked away in a corporate basement because some corporate attorney decided it’s “too risky to leak IP”Despite all the layoffs &amp; black founding fathers debacles Google as an institution has had recently, it still has the systems in place to let passionate engineering projects see the light of day.That’s really cool!

By dumping a codebase they aren&#x27;t using?

I still use my PTR daily! See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rebble.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rebble.io&#x2F;</a> :)

My Pebble Time Round is still the single best piece of tech I have ever owned and used, and I miss it every day.If it can be brought back, I’d pay whatever is necessary, and I’d love to contribute now that I’ve spent many years doing embedded firmware development professionally!

watch(es)? As in you&#x27;ve had to replace them regularly? Hopefully Pebble takes seriously the &quot;sustainbly&quot; part of their relaunch. What you&#x27;re describing sounds like everything I wanna avoid

I had an amazfit watch, didn&#x27;t quite scratch the pebble itch and it has been relegated to the IT junk drawer. The thing I miss the most is the pebble display. I don&#x27;t need heart rate, I don&#x27;t need GPS, I don&#x27;t need sleep tracking, I just want a watch that shows my notifications and has a great battery life.I am pleased they are coming back!

Ok maybe I should say it&#x27;s not only the charge time, but also the e-ink (like?) display that captivates me. The fact that I can always look at my watch and see the time, other people can look at my watch and see the time. No flicks of the wrist required, no always on OLED display.I honestly enjoy the Fossil Hybrid more than the Pebble Time, because it has an actual watch with a screen behind the hands.

Amazfit watches have done this for since 2016 or so. And cheaply.

I&#x27;m glad. For a decade I felt like an outsider because all I want is a very simple wearable device that doesn&#x27;t require charging more than once a month and can display simple notifications from my phone, and the time.I loved the Pebble Time. After that I went over to Fossil Hybrid, which is pretty decent actually. I&#x27;m sure the app steals everything it can but at least the device works.

Hi, please support vanilla linux phones this time?

you probably meant to link <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;04&#x2F;09&#x2F;beeper-is-joining-automattic&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;04&#x2F;09&#x2F;beeper-is-joining-automat...</a>between this new&#x2F;old enterprise of yours and the other stuff going on with automattic i am worried about beeper. sadly as i&#x27;m not allowed to pay for it i don&#x27;t have a tangible stake in the product, so i can only ask nicely for a more explicit statement of future plans.it&#x27;d be a shame to see beeper (+texts) collapse.

Things worked out! We got acquired. Heads down on merging - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ericmigi.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;why-were-bringing-pebble-back" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ericmigi.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;why-were-bringing-pebble-back</a>

Does this mean things have worked out with Beeper? What will happen with that? I noticed development seemed to have stopped. It&#x27;s nothing like it was before.

Apple watch feels soulless and corporate, the app (and feature) selection is still practically abysmal compared to what Pebble had to offer. The walls Apple has built have not helped at all. I haven&#x27;t even found an actually fun small game to play on the loo on it. It&#x27;s sad.

I sleep in my watch every night. I charge it while showering&#x2F;getting ready in the morning and&#x2F;or for an hour while I&#x27;m sitting at my desk. We have very different needs and I get that an AW doesn&#x27;t work for everyone.

Your strategy might work for you, but for me using a smartwatch that only had 30h of battery life was super painful. One of the reasons I use a smartwatch is for sleep tracking (+alarms&#x2F;timers&#x2F;flashlight&#x2F;notifications), which means I can&#x27;t charge it overnight and every day is too dynamic to always charge it at the same time. Plus I miss out on notifications and access to other features I use hourly when I put it on charge.With my Garmin and 2 week+ battery life, the first &lt;15% battery warning still gives me 3 days to put it on charge or turn on battery saving and turn that into 5+ days which is plenty of time to find a convenient time for charging. I don&#x27;t think it ever died on me due to low battery, unlike my previous smart watches. Ok, I lied, it died once on a month long trip, but a split USB cable and a hair tie let me charge it right back up.The low battery life might be ok if you do not use your watch for sleep tracking or alarms. Or flashlight. Gosh, I love my flashlight on wrist.

I loved my Pebble al the way up to when the first Apple Watch came out. Yes, the battery life is nowhere near as good but the integration into the OS was way better and they have steadily added health features that I appreciate (fall detection, afib, etc). Maybe the Pebble could match some&#x2F;all of that but I have my doubts. It was a great little device but longer battery life is just not that compelling to me.I mean sure, if you offer me hours&#x2F;days more of battery I&#x27;m not going to turn it down but for me (and my lifestyle, which is not yours, I get that) I don&#x27;t need more than ~16hrs. Anything longer than that just helps &quot;catch&quot; me if I forget to charge. And that right there gets to the crux of why &gt;24hr batteries rarely matter to me. The only battery charging processes that work for me are either:* Every day* Only when it&#x27;s dead or I know I&#x27;m about to use itWith my Pebble I would regularly find it dead because I lost track of how many days it had been since I charged it and I&#x27;d have to charge it at an inconvenient time. I fixed this by just charging every night. So since I&#x27;m already in that habit, a longer battery doesn&#x27;t do much for me. And in case you were wondering what types of things fall in the second category for me, it&#x27;s things like USB battery packs, flashlights, smart house sensors that aren&#x27;t wired, Airtags, etc.

I think it&#x27;s just a static redirect, it sent me to the Apple Watch page in Firefox on Linux. But I also wondered if it would shuffle between a few different brands or something (I guess not).

I got a tiny bit offended by the assumption that I&#x27;d rather have an Apple Watch.I&#x27;d think the ideal for me would instead be something in-between a Pebble and a Sensor Watch. Something hackable with more battery life, that is a watch first (and a smartphone notification screen never).
I wonder how far I could go towards that goal with the upcoming Pebble hardware and rewriting the OS kernel to sleep more.

On the iPhone I get redirected to the Apple Store page for the Apple Watch. Nice humor.

What if you clicked no because you already own a Pebble?

I like my instinct, but Garmin is so locked down, less hackable than even an Apple Watch.

I just gave away a very expensive Garmin to my son. Its feature set is to dream of. Its user interface is hot garbage. When I&#x27;m out on a hike or in the pool trying to just measure my fsking laps I need a single click option or something. Their paradigm of &quot;button 1, button 3, button 5, long press button 4, button 1 again to confirm. Now you can push off the wall in 3... 2... 1&quot; is beyond fucking stupid.Does anyone at Garmin actually practice sports? For a company with such great hardware they really need someone competent on the UX team. Throwing everything into more and more menus and submenus is not working.The specific watch I&#x27;m criticizing is Garmin Instinct 2x solar. The name is very ironic because there is nothing intuitive about using that watch. Like, at all.

I really like vivomove looks but after buying lux as a gift for my wife I think I will steer clear. App was bad, syncing issues, she wore it for a while because she liked how it looks but I think she has not charged it in over a year because of how much the experience sucks compared to apple watch or even withings.I have a withings scanwatch right now, the app is nice, ecosystem is nice - but accuracy is very underwhelming.I would pay 1k for a watch that- is hybrid with subtle watch aesthetic and minimal display&#x2F;vibration for notifications- has Apple watch level metric accuracy- has week long battery life- ideally would have replaceable battery but not a deal breaker if warranty is 3 years

My Pebble Time Steel finally bit the dust so I turned to a Garmin Instinct. I can&#x27;t stand it. The button placement is totally random and legitimately painful to use. The Garmin software focuses on fitness activities to the exclusion of everything else.I recoil at having been tempted by the more expensive Garmin watches. What a waste of money that would have been!

I can&#x27;t get over garmins predatory business model. The way they bin their products by activity is terrible if you have multiple hobbies. All of these devices are just a gps reciever, screen, battery, yet they sell it to you a dozen different ways for $500+ a pop usually because why unify the software and make it easy for the consumer?

Garmin is the perfect solution if you want a smart watch with a gps that takes 5mins to possibly sync 50% of the time and a touchscreen-only interface that doesn’t work if it gets wet or say sweaty. Ie during most of the activities it’s supposedly designed for.When I got a garmin smartwatch I was astounded by how poor the basic ux is in almost every single way. If I’m swimming, how do I stop my work out? The touchscreen doesn’t work because it’s wet. I have to do some sort of double click of the button. No that’s pause. Maybe triple click - no that didn’t do anything. Maybe hold the button? Now it wants to delete my whole workout.And the GPS sync thing amazes me. I put up with this problem when I was using garmin GPSs for accurate time sync for servers back in the 1990s, but 25+ years later for them not to have figured it out when literally every other GPS device does it just fine completely blows my mind. Apple watch? I want to go for a walk&#x2F;run&#x2F;whatever I hit go. If I move during the 3-2-1 countdown nbd it figures it out. Garmin I want to do it I hit go, it tries to sync the sattelites. If I move during this process it starts from scratch. Sometimes the sync takes 30 seconds or so. Annoying but not impossible to live with. Most of the time however the sync takes 30seconds or so and just fails. Also annoying but whatever. Some of the time however the sync takes a few minutes and then fails. And if I move at all during this, it gives me a message saying it’s going to have to start again and starts from scratch.And to add insult to injury the thing has a custom charging plug with the socket on the back of the watch. It has a ridge and two spikes that physically press into my wrist making it actually painful to wear. So bad.

I absolutely love my Garmin instict. It has an always-on display and a battery that lasts for nearly a month.I mostly use it for reading my calendar, weather, notifications and time. Occasionally I use it for exercise.But what it also excels at is GPS. I use it as a backup navigational tool when sailing. It has also prevented me from getting lost when running in the woods a number of times.

Did you randomly bring this up, or are you saying this because you see a Garmin redirect when you click &quot;No&quot;?I ask because I get directed to the Apple Watch homepage.

Gotta be honest I feel like Garmin is the perfect balance of pebble vs apple watch

It&#x27;s just a joke I think. But yeah linking to the pixel watch would have been nicer.

Good call, I just changed it to send to pixel watch if opened on Android or Windows!

I think it’s perfect actually.Google used to (still?) have a page internally where if you clicked on “I don’t care about security” it sent you to the jobs page of a competitor that had suffered a notable breach.Very on point.

I thought they killed FitBit and are doing Pixel Watch again instead<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.google.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;pixel_watch_3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.google.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;pixel_watch_3</a>

&gt; &quot;A better &quot;thank you&quot; to Google would be to direct people to Fitbit.&quot;Fitbit has already gone off to the great Google graveyard, unfortunately.

Feels a little bit salty to send customers to Google&#x27;s competitor given the fact that Google provided the exit and also liberated the code. They didn&#x27;t have to do that.A better &quot;thank you&quot; to Google would be to direct people to Fitbit.

I wouldn&#x27;t count on that, getting every bank on board is a massive undertaking. Even Garmin Pay and Fitbit Pay (before it was folded into Google Wallet) have&#x2F;had huge gaps in their coverage, especially outside of the US.

There exists &#x27;smart bands&#x27;, which can be applied to any (generally non-smart, obviously) watch that uses normal pin-style watchbands. They have a contactless chip in them that can store one card. 
My traditional watches use them, though I had to custom-make one of the bands to be in a style I wanted.

You could cut out the chip from a debit card and glue it to the back of the pebble?

The feature I use the most on my smartwatch is paying.So if they can bring contactless payments to their new Pebble they have my attention, otherwise it&#x27;s useless to me.

The amount of us who clicked no is amazing. I loved my Pebble Time but I&#x27;m going to give money to yet another Kickstarter and have it be killed shortly after.

why not redirect to google watches specially if the team is from goodle !

I love the animation when you click &quot;No&quot; on &quot;Do you want a new Pebble?&quot;. So extra.

Huge bezel though. Would&#x27;ve got it if not for the bezel, I really wanted to make a custom 24h watchface for a Round. Went for the Time Steel instead. Hope in this new leg of the journey they can get a Round to have bezel coverage more on par with the rectangular models.

Pebble time round was very pretty IMHO, let&#x27;s hope they go more that way this time

Will you have nice looking ones? or will they all be &quot;sporty&#x2F;plastic&quot; types?

Bah! They nailed what exactly? It&#x27;s so mofing complex to use I hurled it at a wall (literally) and then gave it away to my son. A $600 CAD watch that I could not stand to use without seething.

I have a Garmin Instinct 2. They definitely did not nail it. It&#x27;s horrible in all respects. It&#x27;s HUGE, physically painful to use, and the UI must have been written by 10 different teams who weren&#x27;t talking to each other.

You should have a look at he Garmin instinct 2x. They&#x27;ve nailed it.

I loved my scanwatch, but it lacked the feature set of any smart watch for fitness tracking. I hope daily for them to release an improved version.

I like my Fossil watch. Similar to Withings, less health features, marginally smarter. Analog watchface in front of an eink display, 3-4 weeks battery life. Of course they got discontinued as well.

I don&#x27;t like analog watches. I wish there was a watch like the basic casio I use but smart, but not huge and rugged like a G-Shock. If pebble releases a modern version of their watch, I might finally buy a smartwatch.

The idea is nice. The implementation is a bit gaudy design-wise (subjective, granted) and flakey on the hardware side, with the HR sensor accuracy being the main issue.

I prefer technology that hides from view, so the Withings watches suit me as well.The biggest downside is that the battery does not seem to be user-replaceable, so the 1 month of run-time I used to get slowly fades down to about a week or two after a couple of years of use. I can&#x27;t go away for more than a week now without bringing the charger.

I have one, I use it nearly every day, battery can last upward of a whole month. They stopped updating the original model though which is frustrating because newer models have more features, but im almost certain the hardware is virtually identical.I would like more transparency on how long each device gets updates for, similar to how Apple handles their products.

I really like the Withings, but I&#x27;ve killed two of them in about a year each (shattered the face on one, failed seal leading to water ingress on the other). Meanwhile I have a draw full of older watches&#x2F;smartwatches that are all in perfect working order, so this feels like build&#x2F;QC problems specifically on their end.

I love my Withings watch but I wish I didn&#x27;t have to use their app and could instead get the data directly. I tried to reverse engineer their bluetooth based protocol in the past but didn&#x27;t get far because I don&#x27;t have much experience with bluetooth.I then looked at what http requests their app makes which was more straightforward and actually interesting but still not what I wanted... I hope I will find the time to try again soon.

Have you reached out to them? I&#x27;ve found their customer support even for out-of-warranty items to be fantastic.

The Withings ScanWatch was the right fit for me. Unfortunately the HR sensor stopped working recently and the water resistant seal broke, and it&#x27;s out of warranty, so it&#x27;s in a drawer. But IMO that was the right idea: analog time, discrete notifications, ppg&#x2F;ekg sensors, 2-week battery life.

I would do this too, but in some venues you have to pay by scanning QR codes, which makes it impossible without camera.And I don&#x27;t want this:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wristcam.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;learn&#x2F;do-apple-watches-have-cameras" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wristcam.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;learn&#x2F;do-apple-watches-have-camer...</a>

I literally just bought a LTE watch because I hate phones, I never use mine, and I keep forgetting it anyway. I&#x27;d rather have a watch with an eSIM

Pretty sure I yelled something like &quot;yoooo no way!!&quot;  :D  too awesome.

&gt; The Apple Watch Ultra has worked wonders for me in terms of battery lifeIt&#x27;s not really playing in the same ballpark, though, is it?48 hours of battery life is indeed very good for an Apple Watch, but I used to charge my Pebble maybe once a week, and my Withings Scanwatch about once every 3 weeks...

The Apple Watch Ultra has worked wonders for me in terms of battery life and “always on display”.My only wish is for an easily serviceable battery.

The Fitbit watches are the closest thing I&#x27;ve gotten to a Pebble (and I&#x27;d be wearing a fitness tracker anyway), but they&#x27;re way more locked down.

I noticed my mouth had been hanging agape for a while while reading this. This is huge news. I feel like Pebble is the smartwatch that got it right the first time. So many smartwatches try to replace the phone instead of being an extension of the phone. Pebble seemed to better understand what is important than most smartwatches by being the extension of the phone, a focus on battery life and always on displays.

I had two (an OG kickstarter pebble, and the steel), and also suffered screen death. The battery life was incredible, but I don’t know that I could give up the standalone features that the apple watch ultra 2 has. On-device Siri, tap to pay, calling without the phone nearby.. I hate the digital crown though, and it could use a proper torch like the Garmin watches have, so it’s far from perfect.

There was a hack &quot;solution&quot; to fix the display by putting a piece of cardboard or paper behind it to keep the connection good.  I was able to get my OG pebble working again until it was finally replaced by an Apple Watch I was gifted quite some time later (like a year or two!)  :)

So cool that you were able to make this happen. I backed Pebble on Kickstarter in 2012 and no smartwatch has ever really appealed to me since then.The screen on my original Pebble died a long time ago and I&#x27;ve always wondered whether I should try to bring it back to life. Perhaps now is the time!

Ifixit had some pieces and I got a Pebble 2 screen and bezel from Ali Express. Your point is still valid.

I’m wearing my Pebble Time Steel right now and the biggest issue I have with it (maintaining the app) is arguably mostly Apple’s fault.I was originally pissed that Pebble never sold replacement parts (actually I still am), but at least this hardware has been holding up extremely well.

Australia and Nea Zealand are &quot;other&quot; ?? Ok, I guess. If it&#x27;s about economy scale, makes sense.

Looks like it&#x27;s <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;smallandroidphone.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;smallandroidphone.com&#x2F;</a>

Do you have a link to the &#x27;Small Android Phone&#x27;?

I like the idea of their products, but I just wish Unihertz wasn&#x27;t so sketchy -- they refuse to release any kernel sources. (Which is in direct violation of the GPL!)

Which phone is this? I recently got a Unihertz Jelly Star 2 as it was the only decent &quot;small Android&quot; option I found while researching.

I signed up for updates from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;smallandroidphone.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;smallandroidphone.com&#x2F;</a> back in 2022 and have seen nothing since :( I think it&#x27;s dead.

This guy is now behind two of the products that I wish the most: the Small Android Phone and the Pebble watch. I hope they succeed! :)

At the same time, I hope it&#x27;s priced high enough so that the company can thrive without taking external funding. PE and VC fuck everything up.

Great device — lasted 4 years, woke me at 5 AM without disturbing my kids, and handled notifications well. Battery life was about a week, and it was swim-proof. That said, it was cheap... I hope this new version isn’t part of the “dumb” device trend where people spend $500 just to detox, thinking the price will force commitment.

Never heard of Basis Peak, but I&#x27;ve heard of Pebble for over 10 years.

I&#x27;ve had at least two watch purchases fully refunded because of similar issues (or lawsuits related to claims of issues at least): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2022&#x2F;05&#x2F;lawsuit-claims-more-fitbits-are-burn-hazards-includes-gross-pictures&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2022&#x2F;05&#x2F;lawsuit-claims-more-...</a>

The Basis was incredible. It had heath monitoring features Apple is just getting to. I get why it died though. Their V2 exploded on people’s wrists…

In an alternate timeline, we are all wearing Pebbles synced to our Palm Prēs.

Pebble and Basis Peak (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engadget.com&#x2F;2016-08-09-basis-peak-obituary.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engadget.com&#x2F;2016-08-09-basis-peak-obituary.html</a>) are the two biggest smartwatch losses, and probably top 10 gadget losses of all time. Glad to see one of them might have a future.

This is amazing and I&#x27;m so glad this is happening. Please consider keeping the version of the Pebble OS running on the new watches open source to preserve access to it going forward, and if you can keep the hardware designs OSHW as well that would be even better.I love my Pebble and want them to stay available for as long as possible!

As per blog post:&quot;PebbleOS took dozens of engineers working over 4 years to build...&quot;

Just basing things off of Android won&#x27;t get you the &quot;measured in days to weeks&quot; battery life people appreciated about the Pebble, and building your own watch OS from scratch optimized for battery life but still supporting BLE connection to a phone sounds like a great way to spend several years.

It&#x27;s really really difficult to make a full smartwatch OS that&#x27;s nice to use. The closest OSS one I&#x27;ve seen (and also worked on) is InfiniTime for PineTime, it&#x27;s great but it still needs tons of work. Now imagine you have an ecosyste people have built for years. It&#x27;s such a massive difference.

I&#x27;m somewhat confused to why Google needed to open source the original Pebble source code for this project to exist?Was it not possible to already create a comparible e-ink screen, long life battery, smart watch without the source code? Is it the pebble branding itself that is important somehow?

Looking forward to checking it out!I still have this email in my inbox from 2011, after a posting here on HN about your launch:Subject: You bought the first one!
BODY: Congratulations...Great to see this happening again, best of luck!

The pebble battery life was &gt;1 week, over a decade ago, so, yes?

I have to same issues with Fitbit. I&#x27;m thinking about switching soon when this one dies. Wondering whether Pebble would be for good for sleep tracking? Don&#x27;t care about fancy exercise tracking, just steps, heart and sleep.

Don&#x27;t underestimate an always on display. It&#x27;s very nice to be able glance down to see the time or other info without making an exaggerated gesture first. It was what I appreciated most after I switched from Fitbit.As to the Fitbit in particular, they just aren&#x27;t well made anymore and have a habit of dying just out of warranty. My last one got stuck in a reboot loop 14 months after purchase. I tried everything with support from factory reset to letting the battery fully die, but nothing helped. Google told me to throw it out and buy another. My previous one had battery issues after 2.5 years, despite never letting it go below 20%. They are considered disposable devices now and aren&#x27;t built to last.

I get a week of battery time out of my Fitbit Charge 5 with really good sleep tracking as well as reasonable tracking of exercise including swimming and GPS tracked runs. The screen is really nice but not always on e-paper and I can&#x27;t really program it, so I guess there&#x27;s some space to improve but was the pebble really that much better?

Literally the best news I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Great job, looking forward to making some apps this time around!!

I love my Apple watch because it does so well with tracking fitness stuff (particularly swimming) but it&#x27;s a few years old now and is starting to get that laggy feeling interface that seems to be a hallmark of older Apple devices after they&#x27;ve gone through enough OS upgrades. I&#x27;m dreading the idea of spending a couple hundred bucks on another watch.Are the sensors&#x2F;fitness programs on Pebble on-par with apple watches?I wonder if there&#x27;s a way to migrate over my years of recorded data over.

lol image creating a beloved tech product, growing the company to the point where it gets acquired by a tech giant, and then waiting until they spit it back out so you can start it all again.Congrats to Eric. This whole thing is so funny to me and I can&#x27;t wait for my new Pebble.

OH HAPPY DAY! I loved my pebble. It was the perfect balance of features and battery-life.My favorite watch face inspired me to get into may e-ink projects.<pre><code> Horizon by JR Mobley
 https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store-beta.rebble.io&#x2F;app&#x2F;5616d36a6ddd7fea8800001f</code></pre>

My pebble (my wife’s pebble that she never wore) has lost some of its plastic cover a while ago (wear and tear) and won’t turn on anymore. Truly looking forward to this project succeeding in its intent!

I&#x27;ve got one. But I never got used to the idea of having a watch.

Tangentially related: I have been having a ton of fun programming for the sensor watch lately: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sensorwatch.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sensorwatch.net&#x2F;</a>Granted it&#x27;s far from as smart as pebble, but that battery life... ♥

A parts manufacturer went bust at exactly the wrong time IIRC.

I&#x27;m curious why they stopped in the first place. It seemed fantastic when it was out, and everyone loved them. Apple and Android watches are battery hungry and over-fluffed with features I don&#x27;t want or need.I&#x27;d like to think that this time, it won&#x27;t go away again?

I&#x27;m still using it, in fact to the point that it&#x27;s probably the biggest factor why I have been procrastinating on still staying on Android rather than trying alternatives like PinePhone.That the OS has been open sourced is great news (though it&#x27;s sad it was on GitHub... and hopefully other communities around Pebble will spring up outside of platforms (article only mentions Discord and Reddit)).

&gt; Alas, maybe the whole thing was over once Apple, and Samsung got their marketing wheels spinning.Totally possible, like Nokia vs the iPhone. Difficult to say for sure though, seeing vendors like Fitbit and Garmin still operate in the same space.

I think the ethos if the tech world is &quot;grow as fast as possible or die&quot; but there should be more companies that create good products and make a profit catering to a small demographic. 2 million customers is nothing to sneeze at.

&gt; It&#x27;s an absolutely shame that Pebble was so innovative and functional, but couldn&#x27;t reach mass market.I think trying to reach &quot;mass market&quot; - or specifically, the market of people who are into fitness and sportsball - is largely what killed them. I&#x27;d like to believe that they could&#x27;ve catered to existing userbase a bit longer, grew a little more slowly but sustainably by doubling down on an idea of an ergonomic, battery-efficient, programmable smartwatch extension - a tool, not a toy.Alas, maybe the whole thing was over once Apple, and Samsung got their marketing wheels spinning.

Pebble Time (Steel) Kickstarter is the only crowdfunding I truly regret missing out on. I remember seeing it at the time, but I think the reward levels I wanted were sold out or something.Even in retrospect it seems weird that it failed the way it did.

They list out what the proprietary bits are. All of it is third party gernical hardware interface libraries that they do not own. Bluetooth stack, etc. All stuff you can rewrite easier today.The Magic of pebble was the UX of the OS and it&#x27;s extensive hackability. All that magic is OSS now.

On the GitHub it says:
&gt; Proprietary source code has been removed from this repository and it will not compile as-is. This is for information only.Not sure how much use it is?

Even though I haven&#x27;t used one in a really long time, the Pebble Time still stands out to me as something I wish I still had.It&#x27;s an absolutely shame that Pebble was so innovative and functional, but couldn&#x27;t reach mass market. But, I am extremely excited and happy that the Pebble team can start it again. I don&#x27;t like Google for many things, but, I am grateful that the open-sourced PebbleOS. What a joyous day!

I hope they will support vanilla linux phones!

What about who has the original one? What will be new for us?

I still have an old Pebble 2 Flame edition that I Kickstarted somewhere. Unfortunately the rubber&#x2F;plastic on it has started to degrade rapidly a year or so after I bought it so that was a shame.I&#x27;ll definitely be watching this, but it will take a lot to make me replace my Apple Watch.

I tried it on 100m, 400m and 1km swims. In each case it miscounted my turns and distance which I kept in my head to verify its accuracy. In one 100m it missed two turns claiming I did 50m and not 100m. That&#x27;s patently wrong since I know the  pool I go to is 25m and I can count to 4. All my turns were flip turns under water with relatively good technique (think advanced amateur who almost made it to swim team in college)

In my experience, Garmin counts pool lengths just fine, with maybe 1 out of 20 being miscounted?

Please for the love of all that&#x27;s holy pay attention to us, swimmers. We may not be nearly as large a group as runners but we are very underserved by the tracker watch market. The world needs only so many glorified pedometers.I know that tracking strokes, laps and swim distance is much harder than steps. But it&#x27;s doable because Apple mostly gets it right. Yet nobody beside Apple seems to have nailed the simple pool lap count algorithm (remember some prefer to flip turn while others prefer to turn above water especially at the shallow end) but the iWatch is so crap in so many other ways that the world really needs a competent swim tracker that doesn&#x27;t need to be on a charger every 20 minutes.EDIT: Better yet, make it fully open with access to gyro&#x2F;accel data so I can develop my own perfect, swimmer&#x27;s app and maybe make some money as an added benefit.

I was really hoping the Flipper team would champion something like this after they came out with that weird desktop busy panel. I&#x27;ve never understood the value proposition of a high pixel density, power hungry display on a watch. Can&#x27;t wait to see what these guys can achieve with modern tech!

I loved the idea of Pebble watches, but I found them too bulky for what they offered. I hope the relaunch focuses on the same core functionality in a much much sleeker design.

good point, I also can just sleep&#x2F;wake whenever so it doesn&#x27;t matter. I don&#x27;t like being locked into 9-5 despite the world operating on that schedule I get why

try getting or borrowing a cheap watch and wearing it while you sleep first. I definitely don&#x27;t find it comfortable enough to bother with that feature.

Watches are cool, I wish I was a watch person but I am not. Pinetime for example seemed neat.edit: there is one use case I&#x27;m considering it&#x27;s for sleep tracking since my ideal life I sleep whenever and it seems my ideal operating mode is to be slightly sleep deprived (about 5 hours each night) so it knows when I fell asleep and sets a 5hr timer from there.

That&#x27;s what we are usually taught, but it doesn&#x27;t actually seem to be the case. In the smartphone market in particular, as the market itself has grown, the offerings have all seemed to converge on a relatively uniform feature set. Niche phones for niche markets have slowly been weeded out. I don&#x27;t understand why this is the case, but empirically it seems to be so. That&#x27;s not to say that there are no weird, niche phones anymore, but it does seem to be the case that there are fewer of them than in the past, when it seems to me that we should expect the opposite: as the market grows, the absolute size of proportionally tiny &quot;niche&quot; markets should also grow, which seems like it should support a greater diversity of weird phones.

capitalism serves all niches , not just &quot;most people&quot;

Of course it doesn&#x27;t have to be huge, I just think the Pebble probably isn&#x27;t worth resurrecting compared to trying something new and more interesting.

Who cares? As tonymet said, something doesn&#x27;t need to be a huge market to be a viable business. Truthfully I would say that many problems in modern American business culture can be traced back to the false belief that one has to turn their business into a huge affair selling to masses of people constantly.

I just wish integrations were better across the board. I&#x27;d buy a Pebble because i love eInk, but my apple watch is just going to be nicely integrated into my apps, ios, etc. Hell even my car as a Key.Lockin sucks as a user :&#x2F;(though there are of course differences between the target features between Apple Watch and Pebble, i&#x27;m ignoring that)

The Apple Watch is just okay but sells like 25x per year Pebble&#x27;s entire lifetime sales. I guess people love their Pebbles but this seems like a lot of effort for something most people probably don&#x27;t want.

&gt; Ps so Eric Migikovsky works for Google now? I thought he was working on beeper.AIUI the connection to Google here is that Google acquired the rights to Pebble OS (when Google acquired FitBit (after FitBit had previously purchased the rights to Pebble OS from Pebble Technology before it closed)).As Google has now released the code under an Open Source license, Eric (with no connection to Google) is now seemingly planning to build something utilizing the newly opened source.(Further context is that some other people who formerly worked for Pebble do now work for Google and were involved in the process of getting Google to release the Pebble OS source under an Open Source license.)Eric commented re: Beeper here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=42845776">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=42845776</a>

Soooo.. I loved my pebble. And I still have my Kickstarter one.I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;d still want one now though. My Samsung smartwatch does a lot more. Heartrate, ECG, payments, GPS. And with an acceptable battery life too.Ps so Eric Migikovsky works for Google now? I thought he was working on beeper.

I looked at this page on my Quest 3. For some reason, that banner image looks 3D!

I&#x27;d love a fully offline smartwatch with an offline GPS, calculator, wikipedia and other utilities.Knowing you have a map on your wrist that covers your local area with 2 weeks battery is a huge value. The two big reasons I don&#x27;t trust my apps are (1) all of them can lock you out at any time (gaia, alltrails do this) and (2) half day battery is a liability for any map.

If there are any devices in the future I would like a surface competitor. Not surface laptop. Just a tablet thingy.

Cool. I wrote a few watch faces for this back in the day. One of them - ruler watch face was moderately popular.Not sure what it is about the subsequent breed of smart watches (android, apple etc), but none of them seemed to scratch quite the same itch.

I still have my Pebble Time Round in a drawer somewhere. I&#x27;ve long since switched to an Apple Watch but despite all the extra features I still consider it to be an inferior complete product to the Time Round. I really hope this works out.

I can&#x27;t wait, I never got a Pebble but it was the most interesting smart watch style to me.

Neither is Ireland. Things like this make it clear that one lives in a Tier 3 country...

Oh man. I own an Apple Watch, but I made it a point years ago to buy an OG Pebble off eBay to be my first smartwatch, and the sheer elegance of the UX is still something I pine for. I very dearly miss the daily timeline, which was sheer UX brilliance.Only niggle: Portugal isn&#x27;t on the list, but yeah, right... Other it is.

No way! hahaha that&#x27;s amazing. I love the internet. I remember waking up the next morning to like 120 downloads, totally unexpected.

Whoa, I loved that app! I used to track scores for intramural games in college. the UI was so clean and simple!

I lost mine somewhere in SF while visiting years ago but I absolutely loved it.
I won it at a hackathon after making a tiny Pebble app where you could keep score during a soccer game as a referee by pressing the side buttons.
App development and publishing was extremely easy on their app store.

Even if you&#x27;re on the fence, it&#x27;s worth the small investment for some fun and to support a project that&#x27;s been going for a while now.

Huh. I appreciate what they did with the tech there, but looking at this Bangle.js the first thing that comes to mind is I hope NuPebble(?) doesn&#x27;t adopt that excessively-curvy-rectangle shape that screams Apple Watch, I&#x27;ve learned to recoil in disgust even seeing that shape.

I&#x27;ve never worn a pebble, but I also have a banglejs 2 and I really love the watch for it&#x27;s hackability.I&#x27;ve written my own watchface and a couple of other apps and made changes to a number of existing apps, it&#x27;s really simple because you can always test your code changes live on the watch while keeping it on your wrist. There&#x27;s an IDE that connects to it using Bluetooth and the code can be modified during runtimeLthere&#x27;s also a great community of hackers and tinkerers that steadily improve the watch.It might not have the same polish as the pebble had, but it makes it up in hackability. I can only recommend getting a banglejs2 (battery life is also pretty great, I get about 10 days with regular use)

Love this!After my Pebble I tried an e-ink &quot;Watchy&quot; from SQFMI (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;watchy.sqfmi.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;watchy.sqfmi.com&#x2F;</a>) thinking that the battery life would be great but the battery only lasted a few days.I&#x27;ve been wearing a Bangle 2 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.espruino.com&#x2F;Bangle.js2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.espruino.com&#x2F;Bangle.js2</a>) which feels closest to recreating my Pebble. It has super long battery life and feels a lot like my Pebble did, but doesn&#x27;t have the polish of the pebble UI and animations.Can&#x27;t wait to get a new Pebble!

So excited for this! No other smartwatch comes close to the UX of pebble OS. Tiny touchscreens are demonstrably a bad idea.Garmin and Casio have plenty of button-only devices, but they seem to not really understand how to make a UI flow well. They all feel kludgy and arcane to use. Whereas pebble was a very simple layered menu system without any over-complication.

oh wow, I just bought a garmin a couple of weeks ago after it seemed like the rebble app was going to be increasingly unsupported on new android versions, but if this takes off I&#x27;ll switch back without a second thought

Yeas! I moved over to the Garmin 265 since it felt like the most pebble-like watch. But the controls aren&#x27;t nearly as immediately intuitive. Pebble nailed the OS and nothing has ever matched it.

I&#x27;m on my second and last Fitbit— both have had wretched build quality and ultimately failed on the screens. I had resigned myself to holding my nose and eventually getting an Apple Watch, but maybe I&#x27;ll instead hang on for the new Pebble, whenever it arrives.This is great news, Eric.

Yay. The Pebble was my favorite smart watch by a long shot.

Please consider making an e-ink bank. I have a Sony FES with that feature,
and it would be a dream to have a watch with a hackable band.

+1.Not only the heart rate sensors for most watches and fitness trackers bad, but these products have also made it so hard to find a good sensor as the search results are all dominated by the crappy ones.

Will it have a decent heart rate sensor? I have a very expensive Garmin smartwatch, and the heart rate sensor is absolute shite. I mean it&#x27;s pretty accurate on average during steady-state anything. But if you&#x27;re doing any kind of interval training or weight lifting, the readings are often utter gibberish and completely inactionable.Looking forward to seeing your progress.

I still keep around my pebble time (which I mostly use as a timer because I love the UX experience) and I&#x27;m surprised about how well the battery still works. Seeing devices such as the mi band 9 having a battery that lasts around 20 days, I can&#x27;t help but wonder how much longer could last a new pebble

I&#x27;m still disappointed that the pebble core was pulled. A pebble like watch with connectivity might get me interested again.

I bought a Pebble watch long after support stopped because I wanted to have something I considered a piece of technology history. Never thought it would come back and I could change the faces, update it, and make it last. This is wonderful news.

ironically when I had a pebble time, the battery life was so good I&#x27;d get used to not charging and would have days where the battery would die due to forgetting. now that I have an apple watch I&#x27;ve never had that happen, and ironically it&#x27;s because the battery doesn&#x27;t last a long time.

please add a button to start a GPT voice mode conversation or start dictating &#x2F; recording an audio note -- too things I&#x27;d love to be able to do more on-the-go without having to dive into my phone!

I am super excited about this! Thank you Google + Eric + everyone! My old Pebble is long gone, so the possibility of maybe buying a new one is awesome.

I loved my pebble and ended up backing the original product and buying a second. Both broke and when I reached out to support they said there was nothing they could do...I loved the devices but that put a pretty bad taste in my mouth for longevity

It&#x27;s a pity that you didn&#x27;t have a tab at the bar I bumped into you in in Amsterdam last year, while wearing my PTS, then ;)I remember you mentioning that there was hope of the firmware being open sourced. Very glad to see that it&#x27;s happened, and that I might well have a chance to upgrade this 10-year-old but still going strong watch.

We actually had a company tab at that ice cream shop - anyone who had a Pebble on ate for free :)

&gt; There was a great little site that let you use a visual UI to build the fileWas the site you used &quot;Watchface Generator&quot; (.de -- domain was poached at some point) : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.rebble.io&#x2F;developer.pebble.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;tools&#x2F;watchface-generator&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.rebble.io&#x2F;developer.pebble.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;t...</a>I seem to recall there were a couple of graphic + watch-face only generator sites but think the .de hosted one was most common?Of particular note in the current context:There was also the ground-breaking &quot;CloudPebble IDE&quot; by Katharine Berry (subsequently employed by Pebble), who &quot;coincidentally&quot; :) happens to be one of the three authors of the Google blog post about the Pebble OS release: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensource.googleblog.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;01&#x2F;see-code-that-powered-pebble-smartwatches.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensource.googleblog.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;01&#x2F;see-code-that-powe...</a>(And who is apparently also part of the Rebble team.)For anyone interested here&#x27;s a couple of related links I encountered while trying to recall what CloudPebble was called :) :* Write-up of a person&#x27;s experience of using CloudPebble to write their first Pebble watch face (with no previous C or Linux experience): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thomasstoeckert.us&#x2F;project&#x2F;pebble-sse-classic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thomasstoeckert.us&#x2F;project&#x2F;pebble-sse-classic</a>* Write-up about Rebble project by iFixIt in 2019: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ifixit.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;33398&#x2F;rebble-with-a-cause-how-pebble-watches-got-their-amazing-afterlife" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ifixit.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;33398&#x2F;rebble-with-a-cause-how-pe...</a>* Source code for CloudPebble: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pebble&#x2F;cloudpebble">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pebble&#x2F;cloudpebble</a>

It&#x27;s great to see them coming back! I adored my Pebble(s). 2 fun stories:1. Pebble supported 3rd party watch faces based on a file. There was a great little site that let you use a visual UI to build the file and, if done from your phone, upload it right to the watch. Once, when out at midnight beer launch, I made a custom face for the beer and won a little keychain from the brewery. My Apple watch could never.2. Once time in 2014, I ran into some Pebble engineers at an ice cream shop in Palo Alto, they spotted my watch, they bought my scoop! Fun, weird little Silicon Valley moment.

I have a Withings watch which has about 30 days battery life. Granted the display is tiny but I love that it looks like a normal watch and gets out of the way.I&#x27;d buy a Pebble if it hit 14d+ battery life with health tracking features.

Please, for the love of privacy, make this new Pebble work with Linux phones.

Please, for the love of all things privacy, make this new Pebble work on Linux Phone

&gt; Weathergraph was then ported to Garmin (as Pebble shut down), and then to Apple Watch widgetI don&#x27;t think I was a particularly early user of Weathergraph - but when I finally had to retire my Pebble Time I only considered platforms that had your watchface.Thanks very much for the attention to detail!

Forgiven, yes, but I still cannot trust them.A decade of messing with my search results (they only cannot do that anymore since I switched to Kagi) and the killing of Google+ (still interested if anyone have alternatives. Despite its problematic start it became the only social network I ever enjoyed).

Indeed, I forgive Google about 40 of their killed projects for giving us pebble in return.

Thank you! I hope to keep it that way :).

Weathergraph is the best weather app I&#x27;ve ever used, thank you so much for it!

&gt; And as the time progressed, Pebble became the first platform to get Weathergraph - my graphical weather watchface.&gt; Weathergraph was then ported to Garmin (as Pebble shut down), and then to Apple Watch widgetThanks for bringing Weathergraph to life. I found it on the Pebble and used it religiously until I experienced enough challenges with Rebble to switch to a Garmin watch. I was thoroughly chuffed when I saw that you had brought Weathergraph along with you.Are you saying I&#x27;d have to get an Apple Watch to get the third-generation Weathergraph? ;-)

There was a post here a couple weeks ago about smart phones with a very fancy reflective display and I immediately thought how good that would be on something like a pebble.

Thank you! I&#x27;m sorry - it&#x27;s tricky to put in all the data, plus the Garmin app is now hard to maintain as it ran into a memory limit on older watches (they are very tight + a need to cache a large chart), and much of code simplicity has been sacrificed to make it run. I should probably try a re-do as newer watches and language features remove a lot of constraints.

I loved weathergraph. Was my favourite watch face on my pebble and garmin, until my eyes got too old and I couldn&#x27;t read the smaller text anymore. Now I use a watch face for older guys like me, but miss the graph.

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Awesome! The first Pebble absolutely fascinated me by having a hackable, C-running watch on my wrist.I vividly remember spending days fine tuning the heuristics of a simple step detection algorithm in the first watchface where I thought “seeing your daily step count next to time sure is awesome”. And later, tens of thousands of people thought so as well - this was one of the signs what the health-tracking wrist device is about to become.It was incredible that even the first model allowed you to run a 30 samples per second accelerometer sampling and classifying the movement, 24&#x2F;7, and still lasted days. No other watch offers a similar level of hackability.And as the time progressed, Pebble became the first platform to get Weathergraph - my graphical weather watchface.Weathergraph was then ported to Garmin (as Pebble shut down), and then to Apple Watch widget (as it became a capable platform with the introduction of standalone watch-apps in watchOS 6), and then to iOS app &amp; widget, where it now lets me live a life of indie developer, after a serie of corporate design&#x2F;PM&#x2F;dev jobs.Thank you for that, Eric &amp; Pebble team.I still keep the developer edition Pebble with my name printed on the back (great touch!) in my shelf and heart, and will always remember Jon Barlow, one of the best and most helpful developer advocates I ever encountered.And kudos to the whole dev team. The watch and companion app was rock stable, always staying connected, the calendar always being in sync, watch apps installed quickly and reliably - the things that 10x larger companies struggled with for years were nailed here almost from day one.Godspeed!PS: What a mishap to shut the company down shortly after a release of Pebble 2. It nailed the experience of a lightweight watch, with the most contrasty BW reflective screen I have seen, and buttery smooth animations (while Garmin still renders menus in like 8-10 fps on their MIP screens 10 years later). So small and lightweight, I’d love everyone to try it on, and compare with 2024 smartwatches.

I’m so happy and excited about this. Garmin has been serving well but I want Pebble, now!

Thank you, Google. You didn&#x27;t have to, but you did. We (the Pebble team and community) are extraordinarily grateful.I wrote a blog post about our plans to bring Pebble back, sustainably. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ericmigi.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;why-were-bringing-pebble-back" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ericmigi.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;why-were-bringing-pebble-back</a>We got our original start on HN (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3827868">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3827868</a>), it&#x27;s a pleasure to be back.

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