Again in January, Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky unveiled his plan to launch new smartwatches powered by the open-sourced PebbleOS, and right now they’re already up for pre-order. The Core 2 Duo is $149 and ships in July, whereas the Core Time 2 is $225 and ships in December.
Each are solely going to be obtainable on pre-order from retailer.repebble.com (they won’t be offered wherever else), and each have worldwide delivery. They are going to be obtainable in restricted portions, and pre-orders are absolutely refundable at any time till your watch ships.
Core 2 Duo
This one has a 1.26-inch 144×168 black and white e-paper display, a polycarbonate body, barometer and compass, and is available in black or white colorways. It is “nearly precisely” a Pebble 2, however improved with 30-day battery life (up from 7), a Nordic nRF52840 BLE chip, a speaker, a linear resonance actuator, and extra dependable buttons with as much as 30% longer lifetime in testing.
Core 2 Duo
This can after all run all 10,000+ Pebble apps and watch faces. Will probably be water-proof, with the corporate concentrating on IPX8, it has a microphone, step and sleep monitoring, and takes a normal 22mm watch strap.
Core Time 2
That is Eric’s dream watch, apparently. It has a 64-color (sure, that is 64, not 64 billion) 1.5″ 200×228 e-paper touchscreen, the identical because the Pebble Time 2. It has a metallic body and metallic buttons, and is offered in black or white, with a 3rd coloration prone to come afterward.
Core Time 2
It has 30-day battery life, a flat glass lens for much less glare and reflections than the Pebble Time household, a coronary heart charge monitor, microphone and speaker, a normal 22mm watch strap, step and sleep monitoring, and water resistance (once more, concentrating on IPX8 however nothing is for certain simply but).
The commercial design is “carefully primarily based on Pebble 2”, the founder says, however it’s barely larger to accommodate the bigger show. Extra particulars might be shared “later this yr”.
