Pebble Smartwatch
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| Also known as | Pebble |
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| Developer | Pebble Technology, Corp., Pebble Devices, Corp in California. |
| Manufacturer | Foxlink Group in Taiwan |
| Product family | Pebble |
| Type | Smartwatch |
| Generation | 1 |
| Introductory price |
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| Discontinued | December 7, 2016 |
| Units sold | 1,000,000+ as of December 2014[update] |
| Operating system |
Pebble OS; uses a customized FreeRTOS kernel Can communicate with Android and iOS apps using Bluetooth. Portions of Pebble OS are closed source. Latest Version: 4.3 |
| CPU | STM32F205RE Cortex M3 CPU for Pebble Smartwatch and Steel, and Cortex M4 for Pebble Time and newer. |
| Memory | RAM 128 KB (84 KB OS, 24 KB app, 12 KB background worker, 8 KB app services) |
| Storage | Pebble Time-series: 50 slots for faces/apps stored on watch, infinite can be loaded from the connected phone. Pebble Classic-series: 8 slots for apps/watch faces, 100 KB per slot for a total of 800 KB user accessible space. The Kickstarter version has 4 MiB (32 Mibit) flash. Originals built after October 2013 and all Steel watches have 8 MiB (64 Mibit) flash. All models also have 512 KiB SoC flash memory |
| Display | 32-millimetre (1.26 in) 144×168 pixel Sharp Memory LCD "e-paper" |
| Graphics | Pebble Classic/Steel: 1-bit black-and-white e-paper; Pebble Time: 64 (6-bit) color e-paper. |
| Sound | None |
| Input | 4 buttons 3-axis accelerometer with gesture detection magnetometer and ambient light sensor, microphone on Pebble Time models |
| Camera | None |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth 2.1 and 4.0 LE (used for iOS 7 notifications) + EDR |
| Power | 130 mAh, 7 days (assuming ~20–30 notifications a day, and a per-minute updating watchface) |
| Dimensions | Pebble: 52 mm × 36 mm × 11.5 mm (2.05 in × 1.42 in × 0.45 in), Pebble Steel: 46 mm × 34 mm × 10.5 mm (1.81 in × 1.34 in × 0.41 in) |
| Weight | Pebble: 38 g (1.34 oz), Pebble Steel: 56 g (1.97 oz) (with default watchband attached) |
| Backward compatibility |
Android, iOS |
| Successor | Pebble Time (both normal and Steel variants) |
| Related articles | fitbit |
| Website | www |
Pebble OS; uses a customized FreeRTOS kernel Can communicate with Android and iOS apps using Bluetooth. Portions of Pebble OS are closed source.
Pebble Technology Corporation developed a line of smartwatches including the first commercially successful smartwatch, the Pebble Smartwatch, before closing down in December 2016.
Pebble Technology Corporation raised $10.3 million through a Kickstarter campaign running from April 11, 2012, through May 18, 2012; this was the most money raised for any product on the site at that time. Best Buy, an American consumer electronics corporation, began selling Pebble smartwatches in July 2013, and sold out within five days. On December 31, 2014, Pebble sold its one millionth smartwatch. In 2015, Pebble launched the Pebble Time and Time Steel with Kickstarter, raising $20.3 million from over 75,000 backers, breaking records for both on the site. In 2016, Pebble shut down their Time 2 series watches and refunded Kickstarter backers, citing financial issues.
On December 7, 2016, Pebble officially announced that the company would be shut down and would no longer manufacture or continue support for any devices, nor honor any existing warranties. Pebble's intellectual property was purchased by Fitbit, a wearable technology company specializing in fitness tracking, who also hired some of the Pebble staff. Further clarification on the transition timeline and efforts to render Pebble OS and its watchfaces/apps more self-sufficient was posted to the Pebble Dev Blog on December 14, 2016.
Pebble watches connect to both Android and iOS phones, so they can display notifications from the phone. An online app store distributes Pebble-compatible apps from many third party developers, including ESPN, Uber, Runkeeper, and GoPro.
The original Pebble Smartwatch was designed based on a concept by Eric Migicovsky describing a watch that could display messages from a smartphone and select Android devices. Migicovsky successfully took his idea through the Y Combinator business incubator program, and unusually for a startup company at Y Combinator, Migicovsky's business actually generated revenue during the program. Migicovsky was able to raise US$375,000 from angel investors such as Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, but was unable to raise additional funds. Discussing his inability to raise further funds, Migicovsky told the Los Angeles Times, "I wasn't extremely surprised... hardware is much harder to raise money for. We were hoping we could convince some people to our vision, but it didn't work out."
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