We're excited to announce two new smartwatches that run open source PebbleOS and are compatible with thousands of your beloved Pebble apps. Both are available in limited quantities, with worldwide shipping. Prices are in USD. Pre-ordering is the only way to get one - they will not be sold in stores. Pre-order today at store.rePebble.com!
Why are we making new Pebble-like smartwatches? Pretty simple - because we want one! No company has made a perfect smartwatch for people like us, so we’re going to make the exact smartwatch we want.
Schedule-wise, Core 2 Duo is quite far along. We’ve already produced dozens of Core 2 Duo watches for testing and development. We’ve tested and confirmed our button improvements. PebbleOS has been compiled for the new Bluetooth chip power efficiency over the last 10 years. Battery life will be increased from 7 days to 1 month!
We’re adding a touchscreen to Core Time 2, why? Very specifically, I want to add the concept of ‘complications’ to watchfaces and widgets. Like on Apple Watch, these complications/widgets will show glanceable information like weather, next calendar event, step count, etc.
Core Time 2 will be the first PebbleOS watch to ship with a touchscreen, but not the first that we designed! In 2015, Pebble designed it into a watch called Cutts (or C2) and did some (very) preliminary software development work to integrate a touchscreen into PebbleOS.
Battery life: I’m really excited that battery life will be increased from 7 days to 1 month! This is due to massive improvements in Bluetooth chip power efficiency over the last 10 years. Speaker: we’re adding this primarily for potential use in apps that benefit from audio output, like a ChatGPT or other AI agent app.
Smartstraps: neither watch will support smartstraps. Sorry. Most people don’t even remember this feature even existed, which is kinda the answer to why it will not be supported. RIP. You need a perfectly polished smartwatch. This project is a labour of love rather than a startup trying to sell millions of watches.
Things will get delayed. Some features will not be ready at launch. Things could break. Things could not last as long as you’d like. The only thing we can guarantee is that it will be awesome and a lot of fun!
Every time you look down at your watch, you will smile 🙂
You’re looking for a fitness or sports watch. That’s not what we’re making. From what we hear, Garmin watches are great for runners/cyclists/triathletes! You’re comparing this to an Apple Watch. There is NO way for a 3rd party smartwatch to compete with Apple Watch.
Apple restricts 3rd parties in major ways - read my blog post for more information. For example, 3rd party watches on iOS cannot send replies to notifications.
We want to be upfront with you about what to expect. Watch images above feature impeccably designed watchfaces from TTMM, including one of my all-time favourites - TTMMBRN. Thank you Albert!