The Pebble e-paper watch first hit the scene last April when it exceeded $1 million in funding in under 48 hours, and eventually ended up with $10.2 million dollars pledged and almost 69,000 backers, making Kickstarter history. I funded the project back on April 12th and finally received my black Pebble more than 10 months...
Pebble has announced its highly anticipated watch face SDK will be available in April and next week a firmware update is coming, version 1.9. Next week's firmware will rearrange the interface to make a simplified main launcher menu, plus it will include tweaks to improve the text rendering engine to make it easier for developer...
The folks over at iFixit have completed a teardown of the Pebble e-paper watch, one of the most successful Kickstarter projects in history, started by Canadian Eric Migicovsky, a former RIM employee. iFixit notes in their teardown there is no repairability scale yet on the watch, but they did say replacing parts would be difficult given...
The Pebble team has announced they have released a couple new digital watch faces today, "Simplicity" and "Times Square". As for their Watchface SDK, that's still under production but the team has been using it to release new faces. The production line is also back on track and so far over 25,000 Pebbles have been...
Bloomberg is the latest media outlet to report Apple is allegedly working on smart wrist watch device, similar to what previously was reported by the WSJ and NYT: Apple Inc. has a team of about 100 product designers working on a wristwatch-like device that may perform some of the computing tasks now handled by the...
Pebble has announced the release of PebbleOS v1.8 for its e-paper watch to bring some improvements and bug fixes. The release includes the following and should show up within the Pebble iOS app under updates: What's New Improved backlight control. Now configurable in the display settings menu. New option "AUTO" which controls the backlight using...
Pebble announced four days ago they had started shipping their e-paper smartwatch. Nilay Patel from The Verge has one of the first full reviews of the new smartwatch--he thinks it's great: After using the Pebble for a few days, I realized that I was daydreaming about it: I wanted it to do more. That’s unusual...
This morning the Pebble team announced their e-paper watch would start shipping today. During that update, the team noted their iOS app was still waiting approval from Apple. Well, that didn't take long because the accompanying iOS app has landed in the App Store. The Pebble app provides a dashboard for your Pebble smartwatch: -...
In a blog post published today, the Pebble team informs that the first batch of Pebble smartwatches have been sent out to the very first backers, although the iOS app isn't yet available in the App Store as it is under review. (more…)
As expected, developers of the Pebble smartwatch Kickstarter project held a press conference at CES 2013 today, announcing that Pebble is now in mass production and will be shipped to its Kickstarter backers on January 23. Company’s CEO Eric Migicovsky added that it will take almost two months to get all the initial orders out (via TNW). Detailing the...
Pebble, the Kickstarter watch project that shattered records, has announced it will be holding a press conference at CES 2013 to announce some "big news". For those not able to attend in person at CES, you will be able to watch the announcement streamed live at getpebble.com on January 9th, 9:00AM PST. Pebble has not...
In an update sent to its supporters via email, the Pebble team has announced its final colours for the watch and also announced the final product will support receiving SMS and iMessage notifications: iPhone SMS and iMessage Big news! We're proud to announce that Pebble now supports receiving SMS and iMessage notifications from iPhones and...
