Pebble’s round smartwatch is getting a reboot

It’s clip to reboot different OG Pebble smartwatch — specifically, the round-faced Time Round, which is getting a follow-up much than a decade aft its original launch. The caller Pebble Round 2 improves upon its predecessor pinch longer artillery life and a larger 1.3-inch touchscreen display, ditching the chunky bezel that surrounded the original Time Round’s 1-inch screen.

The Pebble Round 2 useful pinch iOS and Android devices and is available to preorder for $199, pinch shipping expected successful May. This is the latest Pebble smartwatch to beryllium relaunched by original Pebble creator Eric Migicovsky’s caller company, Core Devices, pursuing the Pebble 2 Duo and Pebble Time 2 — antecedently called the Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2, until Migicovsky recovered the Pebble trademark from Google.

While Pebble’s original round-faced smartwatch only provided 2 days of artillery life connected a azygous charge, the Pebble Round 2 tin spell for up to 2 weeks. The 260 x 260 colour e-paper show besides provides doubly arsenic galore pixels arsenic the Time Round and now covers the full watch face. Dual microphones are included that support reside input features for illustration chatting pinch AI agents and replying to messages, though the second is only disposable connected Android for now, pinch iOS support coming to the EU “soon.”

The Pebble Round 2 features a stainless alloy framework that’s disposable successful black, silver, and roseate golden colour options. There are 2 quick-release set sizes disposable — 14mm for roseate gold, 20mm for black, and some 14mm and 20mm for the metallic variant. Core Devices says that it’s making respective further set accessory options for each size, including leather.

“You tin do basal wellness and activity search (steps, sleep), but it’s not designed to beryllium a fittingness aliases sports watch,” Core Devices said successful the announcement. The Pebble Round 2 includes an accelerometer and magnetometer, truthful this whitethorn entreaty to anyone who needs a basal smartwatch and has nostalgia for the OG Pebble brand, but it won’t beryllium replacing your Garmin immoderate clip soon.