Fitbit today has made it clear once and for all that it will end support for Pebble smartwatches on June 30. Fitbit acquired Pebble along with smartwatch team and assets related to their software platform back in 2016. The company will put an end to most of Pebble’s features including App Store, the forum, cloud development tool, voice recognition features, and SMS and email replies. Continue reading “Fitbit to end support for Pebble smartwatches on June 30”
In a move that has been anticipated for a while, Fitbit today announced that they’ve acquired Pebble. The maker of what was arguably one of the first popular smartwatches, Pebble simultaneously revealed that they are winding down all hardware operations effective immediately. Continue reading “Pebble winds down operations as Fitbit acquires company assets”
Fitbit is said to be close to buying smartwatch maker Pebble, according to a latest report from The Information. There is no word on the price of the deal but the report says it is for a “small amount”. Some reports are claiming the amount of acquisition between $34-$40 million. Continue reading “Fitbit reportedly close to acquiring smartwatch maker Pebble”
This week OnePlus launched its much-awaited flagship OnePlus 3 smartphone globally. It is the fourth smartphone by the company and third flagship smartphone since the inception in 2013. Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: OnePlus 3, Xiaomi Redmi 3X, Redmi 3s, Meizu m3s, Microsoft Xbox One S and more”
Pebble is back on Kickstarter with three new offerings – Pebble 2, Pebble Time 2 smartwatches and the Pebble Core fitness tracker. Continue reading “Pebble 2, Pebble Time 2 smartwatches with heart-rate sensor and Pebble core fitness tracker unveiled”
Way back in 2013, Pebble launched its first smartwatch. Ahead of the upcoming flood of wearables in all forms and shapes, Pebble was ahead of the curve. Of course, that didn’t necessarily mean that it had a cutting edge product on hand. As Android Wear and the Apple Watch gained mass popularity, Pebble stood watching silently. With over 1 million units sold, Pebble revealed its next generation wearable last year. The Pebble Time takes everything good about the original and kicks it up a notch. Continue reading “Pebble Time Steel Review: Balancing Form and Function”
Pebble has finally launched its Pebble Classic, Pebble Time, Pebble Time Round and Pebble Time Steel smartwatches in India exclusively on Amazon.in. All these have e-ink displays, track steps, sleep and connect to Android or iPhone to offer notifications for calendar events, text and emails, incoming calls and more. Continue reading “Pebble Classic, Time, Time Round and Time Steel launched in India, starts at Rs. 5999”
Pebble had introduced Health app in December last year. Now the company has started rolling out major update to the app that brings improved activity tracking features, smart alarm, communications features and more.
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Pebble has introduced the Health app to its Pebble Time smartwatch. The first native app from the company will bring activity tracking by integrating it into the Timeline.
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This week at an event in Beijing, Meizu announced its a new flagship handset dubbed the Meizu PRO 5. The phone is powered by a 2.5 GHz Samsung Exynos 7420 processor and comes with either 3GB or 4GB RAM variants. Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: Meizu PRO 5, Xiaomi Mi 4c, new Micromax 4G LTE smartphones, Pebble Time Round and more”
Pebble has launched Pebble Time Round, it’s first circular smartwatch. The new Pebble Time Round is slimmer, smaller and thinner smartwatch that continues to sport a color e-ink display.
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Pebble has just made the Time Steel smartwatch open to reservation worldwide at a price of US$249. The Time Steel model has already begun shipping to its Kickstarter backers and users can now reserve one for themselves through Pebble.
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Last week Pebble teased a new version of the smartwatch on its website with a countdown for a launch. Today, a render has been spotted on Pebble’s own website which shows a larger smartwtch watch color display.
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Following the report of launching new products and a software platform in 2015 earlier, Pebble is now teasing a new model for a smartwatch that will be announced next week on Tuesday as per a countdown on its official site.
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In December, Pebble for beta Android app version 2.3 added Android Wear notifications that lets users reply and act on notifications right from your watch. Today, Pebble app is officially shedding the beta tag.
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