By: Nina Raemont, Wearables and Well being Editor / Jan. 3 at 6:42 p.m. ET
It was 11 years in the past when Pebble unveiled its first-generation spherical smartwatch, the Pebble Time Spherical. Eleven years later, the watch model introduced the Pebble Spherical 2, that includes updates that can please each veteran Pebble wearers and newcomers alike. The smartwatch shouldn’t be as skinny because the famously slim Pebble Time Spherical (it is 0.6 mm thicker), however it presents ten days of battery life and maximizes the 1.3-inch e-paper show.
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Widening the show made studying notifications and messages far simpler and extra legible on the brand new watch throughout a side-by-side demo. The watch is not designed for hardcore train monitoring; as a substitute, it excels at fundamental well being monitoring (sleep and steps) whereas preserving the watch skinny, elegant, and as near analog as attainable.
“With this product, we wished it to be probably the most trendy, elegant Pebble ever, and one of many issues is to make it really feel prefer it is not a block of know-how in your wrist. It feels extra like a timepiece. To try this, it needed to be skinny,” Eric Migicovsky, Pebble’s CEO, advised me in an interview.
Pre-orders for the Pebble Spherical 2 are actually open.
