Proud of this one! Feel free to ask any questions you might have. (Pebble founder)
What is the e-paper display part number / manufacturer?
Pebble Round 2
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#32Proud of this one! Feel free to ask any questions you might have. (Pebble founder)
I pre-ordered because I loved the Pebble Round - especially the size and look. My intended use case is for formal dress codes and special events (weddings, new years, ...) wheretny fennix 51mm does not fit in (literally and figuratively). That said: I can't find full dimensions for the new round 2. I can guesstimate that it should be 10-20% smaller in diameter and less than 2/3 the thickness. Would you mind sharing f…
You can see the dimensions in the full spec table on the preorder page
Re: Pebble Round 2
#33Proud of this one! Feel free to ask any questions you might have. (Pebble founder)
Is the situation with Rebble solved?
Rebble apologized, withdrew claims, and left the door open for future collaboration. They are restructuring/reorganizing.
Core Devices pushed out modularity updates to be less dependent on Rebble's app store and started their own.
That's the latest public information.
Re: Pebble Round 2
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
I pre-ordered because I loved the Pebble Round - especially the size and look. My intended use case is for formal dress codes and special events (weddings, new years, ...) wheretny fennix 51mm does not fit in (literally and figuratively). That said: I can't find full dimensions for the new round 2. I can guesstimate that it should be 10-20% smaller in diameter and less than 2/3 the thickness. Would you mind sharing f…
You can see the dimensions in the full spec table on the preorder page https://repebble.com/watch
Oh great, I missed that end of the page. The "Round 2 details" links back to the blog and it is hard to see the FAQ on mobile (needs manual scrolling to the end).
Google search and Perplexity failed when I tried, too. Google search has caught up now (haven't retried Perplexity)
A 41.5mm diameter sounds good. That's a whopping 10mm/20% smaller than my current watch. Should be really neat given the thickness.
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#35> No more bezel Maybe I'm looking at the wrong image, but I see a silver bezel going all around the watch screen. I thought "no bezel" on a screen means the screen goes all the way to the edges of the device. Still want one tho.
I think pretty much all watches have some sort of raised dial/edge in order to protect the glass. This one is not as small as some, but compared to the original round pebble, this is much, much smaller.
Except, of course, the most popular smartwatch (Apple Watch) which extends the glass above the case, giving it zero protection against impacts from the front.
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#36I'm sorry for the sour grapes, but the recent ring announcement - disposable, single-charge electronics - soured me on the entire brand in a "never meet your heroes" sort of way. Somehow it makes the idea of wearing one of the watches a negative statement piece.
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#37This almost feels like planned obsolescence, with my Pebble Time Steel just recently starting to give up =) I'm joking, the thing has held up amazingly well under all the stress I have put it through for a remarkably long time. It's just pretty well timed, in a way.
I've been holding out for a refresh that can compete with the look of the Time Steel, basically the design of the original Time 2. I might go with this one, but that would mean having to abandon the square watchface I've grown fond of. Maybe there are some nice round ones. The two weeks of battery life and activity tracking are greatly appreciated!
> Touchscreen (but you don’t have to use it!)
What a ride. I hate touchscreens with a burning passion. I hope it can be disabled.
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#38Proud of this one! Feel free to ask any questions you might have. (Pebble founder)
Is a normal (non-rose) gold (or even a brass) color something we could look forward go in the future? Was the decision to not sell that color based on expected demand for the color or did it not work for some other reason?
No plans to offer more SKUs, sorry. Already have enough to manage.
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#39Re: Pebble Round 2
#40I'm sorry for the sour grapes, but the recent ring announcement - disposable, single-charge electronics - soured me on the entire brand in a "never meet your heroes" sort of way. Somehow it makes the idea of wearing one of the watches a negative statement piece.
The miniscule ring? That size/time doesn't bother me. Now if it was something the size of a phone, that would bother me.
I'm expecting that by the time I use up the first version ring's battery, a better version (maybe rechargeable) will be released.