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Re:Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux on Sunday August 30, 2026 @05:07PM (#49502830)
Too bad it requires Bluetooth classic or else we could port this to Pebble!
Re:The first watch featuring computer functions on Thursday July 30, 2026 @11:44AM (#49111610)
Aww glad to hear it!
Re:Nano Banana 2 Lite on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @06:31PM (#48740110)
great explainer video!
Re:Pebble Round 2 – The Most Stylish Pebble Ever on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @04:42PM (#46519256)
Here's my answer (as the founder of Pebble - both eras!) on this. We're a small company this time (standing on the shoulders of giants by using open source PebbleOS - thank you google!).

We are excited to make new devices, but wary about over-promising. We'd rather under-promise and over-deliver. So far, we have only received a few requests for warranty support for our first new watch (Pebble 2 Duo) and we have provided support for everyone who has asked.

Re:Pebble Round 2 – The Most Stylish Pebble Ever on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @11:00AM (#46514012)
Generally most sleep tracking products use actigraphy (measurements of your movement) to track sleep. Pebble partnered with researchers at Stanford back in the day to produce an algorithm for our operating system, which worked quite well and is now open source!

You can read the code and see how the sleep tracking algorithm works here - https://github.com/coredevices/PebbleOS/blob/main/src%2Ffw%2...

Re:Pebble Round 2 – The Most Stylish Pebble Ever on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @10:52AM (#46513864)
Unfortunately no - it basically had zero usage
Re:Pebble Round 2 – The Most Stylish Pebble Ever on Monday January 05, 2026 @06:07PM (#46506449)
It has a built in weather app and hundreds of watchfaces that show weather as well.
Re:Pebble Round 2 – The Most Stylish Pebble Ever on Monday January 05, 2026 @06:06PM (#46506431)
Sleep tracking works well on all Pebbles!
Re:Pebble Round 2 – The Most Stylish Pebble Ever on Monday January 05, 2026 @06:06PM (#46506424)
Would make it thicker, I wanted it to be very thin.
Re:Pebble Round 2 – The Most Stylish Pebble Ever on Friday January 02, 2026 @07:28PM (#46471292)
sharp, same display that's in Garmin MIP watches (like Forerunner 255) but tbh looks much better in Round 2!
Re:Pebble Round 2 – The Most Stylish Pebble Ever on Friday January 02, 2026 @07:28PM (#46471289)
No plans to offer more SKUs, sorry. Already have enough to manage.
Re:Pebble Round 2 – The Most Stylish Pebble Ever on Friday January 02, 2026 @01:16PM (#46467655)
still works fine with iOS, will work even better in EU next year when Apple is forced to comply with the DMA.
Re:Pebble Round 2 – The Most Stylish Pebble Ever on Friday January 02, 2026 @11:37AM (#46466506)
Still doing our water resistance testing on Round 2, but that is the target (30m water resistance)!
Re:Pebble Round 2 – The Most Stylish Pebble Ever on Friday January 02, 2026 @11:15AM (#46466261)
> Screws

Nope! No screws on this one.

> Is that a matter of adapting the watchfaces to the bigger screen?

Yes, exactly.

Re:Pebble Round 2 – The Most Stylish Pebble Ever on Friday January 02, 2026 @10:09AM (#46465477)
Proud of this one! Feel free to ask any questions you might have.

(Pebble founder)

Re:New Pebble Device on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @01:24PM (#46221411)
There are several different options you can pick from between 50MB and 600MB.
Re:New Pebble Device on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @01:24PM (#46221399)
It has a hard cutoff built into the firmware at two minutes so after that point the recording stops and the ring turns off until the next button press.
Re:New Pebble Device on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @01:23PM (#46221387)
This isn't a question I understand, but I appreciate you writing it. At the end of the day it's up to you - if you think this is useful, please use it. If you don't want to use it because of the 4.7 grams of e-waste, I do get it.

All consumer tech is intentionally disposable. That's life. Especially for tiny smart rings that are water resistant. It's a ring, it's going to get banged up, you'll lose it or smash it. It's new tech - there will always be a new version, etc.

Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.

Re:New Pebble Device on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @01:20PM (#46221338)
You could write software to do that if you wanted to
Re:New Pebble Device on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @01:20PM (#46221328)
The firmware is not open source. I licensed it from a friend of mine.

You can definitely assign different actions to button presses, that's handled by the phone side

Re:New Pebble Device on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @01:19PM (#46221318)
1. smallest size is 6 2. yes! You can send your recordings to any webhook. 3. yes! can even shower with it on
Re:New Pebble Device on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @01:19PM (#46221310)
The app is 100% open source so you could add that feature if you wanted to. We'd love a PR for that!
Re:New Pebble Device on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @01:18PM (#46221298)
Technically possible and it's a feature that will be supported
Re:New Pebble Device on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @01:18PM (#46221291)
Yes, that's in the works!
Re:New Pebble Device on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @01:17PM (#46221287)
it happens occasionally like when you're leaning against a table at the exact right angle. but I don't think I've noticed it more than a few times.
Re:New Pebble Device on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @01:16PM (#46221276)
Should be possible! Battery would last for decades in this mode.
Re:New Pebble Device on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @01:13PM (#46221233)
We thought about this of course: the ring is limited to 2-minute recordings, then button presses are ignored until the next button press
Re:New Pebble Device on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @11:40AM (#46207053)
If you look at other rechargeable smart rings they're in the $250 to $300 range, plus a $10/month subscription. We didn't want to do that for a new product like this.
Re:New Pebble Device on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @11:38AM (#46207035)
It can work exactly like that, if you have a Pebble. But it works standalone as well.

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