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Re:Pebble's next step by tcoppi on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @09:45AM (#13122847)
I have an OG pebble steel and it does everything I currently want in a smartwatch. I don't expect it will stop working for some time, and I plan on using it as long as possible.
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Re:Pebble's next step by agumonkey on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @09:48AM (#13122865)
Has anybody managed to make a nice dissection of the device to see if it's possible to reimplement it ?
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Re:Pebble's next step by rtpg on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @09:52AM (#13122896)
iFixIt does a teardown of the Pebble Time where it seems to have a relatively straightforward construction

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Pebble+Time+Teardown/42382

EDIT: there's also this post on the tech specs on reddit[0]. This looks pretty re-implementable if you're a hardware engineer looking to do something fun. The right component mix seems to have been figured out already.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/wiki/tech_specs

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Re:Pebble's next step by TeMPOraL on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @09:53AM (#13122903)
Firmware can be reversed, and as for the hardware, I suppose the teardowns iFixit did should be enough for a competent hardware engineer to replicate the design.
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