The founder of Pebble wants to restart the Smartwatch e-finer watch

“We are making new harvest hours,” the original founder is Eric Migicovsky Repeble launch page.

Eight years after the time of Pebble as an hour maker I finishMigicovsky says it works with a small team on “a smart clock that is like gravel that runs open source Pebleos.” There must be some new features, but the new watches will remain “real to see the basic pebble.” With adequate subscriptions, the site is called, that watch is built.

Pebble, which was launched in 2012, was one of the first smart watches in the era of smartphones, where she was selling 2 million model and served as an early leader A success story for group financing for devices. Relatively The hard -to -experience hardware company He ran in gaps in financing and intense competition from Apple Watch, Pebble stopped making their own watches yet IP is only selling to Fitbit in 2016. Google got Fitbit in 2021The acquisition of some of the indigenous workers of gravel, who then helped Rebble Project Run alternative web services for the watch and keep the watch you work on The latest Android phones.

Maintaining things simple

Why does someone want to make electronic watches for 2016 again? One of the major reasons is that Google, which was paid by veterinarians in Pebble and its volunteers at home, Most of the source code for the operating system was released in the Pebble. It lacks some points from the group of monarchy slices and a bluetooth staple code, but it can be built, if not fully assembled. There is an “unprecedented amount of work that must be done in finding alternatives” for these pieces, in addition to updating the source of the source of years old, the notes of the Google Published. But anyone who wants to make the monitoring of the pebble can now Use the Pebble icon.

With this symbol, migicovsky can treat the second reason for the new gravel process – nothing replaced. On his blogMigicovsky defines the essence of the PEBBLE: Always screen, a long battery life, a “simple and beautiful user experience” focuses on useful basics, physical buttons, and “penetrationable”, including allocated watches.

Migicovsky writes that a small team deals with the side of the devices, manufactures an hour that runs Pebbleos and “basically it has the same specifications and features as Pebble” but with “new enjoyable things too”. Decally, they are taking a different path from the original Pebble Company:

“This time, we keep things simple. Lessons have been learned the last time! I build a small focused company in a narrow way to make these hours. I don’t imagine collecting money from investors, or renting a big team. Focus on sustainability. I want to continue making tools Cold and keep the pebble in the future.

It is still not the Apple watch – through design

He asked Ars Technica Migicovsky via email if modern gravel will have a better operation with iPhone than Apple from the original models. “No, even less now!” Migicovsky answered, referring to Apple Ministry of Justice lawsuit in 2024. This lawsuit claims that Apple “restricted the jobs of the third -party smart watches” to keep people who use Apple watches, and as a result, less likely to switch from iPhone devices.

He wrote, the main function of Migicovsky in his position, and he wrote, is still possible on iOS. Some advanced features, such as responding to audio notifications, may be limited to Android phones.

Migicovsky does not have a Migicovsky blog and a timetable for new devices. Its last project, a multi -protocol chat application WhistleHe was Sold In April 2024, after a A long battle with Apple To reach the iMessage protocol.

This story was originally appeared on Art Technica.