It has a front light that turns on when you raise your wrist.
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Pebble Round 2 Brings Back Classic Smartwatch, Pre-Orders Now Open
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I don’t think it’s very attractive. The watch design itself—display and software aside. Use wise, smartwatch software is going to be more useful and productive on a non-round display, which is the whole point of a smartwatch. A round display excels best when it leans into analog.
Yup. That´s why I ordered a Pebble Time 2.
Apples one (or maybe 2) days of battery life for a watch was just a nonstarter for me. I want to wear it all week without having to think about charging it.
(Just my personal opinion)
Some design choices in there that are appealing. For me the eink screen strikes a chord. HTH, NSC
Won’t be buying this, as I want a workout and durability-focused device, but I do like the idea of e-ink.
My current Garmin Instinct is the closest I’ve found in a fitness watch. It’s MIP, but monochrome. Big fan!
My current Garmin Instinct is the closest I’ve found in a fitness watch. It’s MIP, but monochrome. Big fan!
I recently test drove the Pixel Watch 4 and, to my surprise, I was impressed. As a longtime Apple Watch guy, I never thought anything could come close to Apple’s standard for style, build quality, and OS integration. I still have no idea where the Pebble watch fits in, but I ended up keeping the Pixel Watch. 🤷♂️
About as much chance of this happening as there would be Apple releasing a Style for an iPad or making a giant Phablet sized smartphone.
Both items, they and many fan's poo poo'd and never wanted.
Oh wait......
This is getting off-topic, but I've never seen one in person. Does the crown sticking out bother your wrist at all? It looks like it would press in the hand with pushups or whatever. It's kinda "bubbly" looking, the screen is alright?
Tech is too old and it's way overpriced. This isn't a smart watch by 2026 standards. It was fine in its time, but now we have significantly better options.
I had the same concerns at first, but they disappeared once I put it on. The Pixel Watch 4 is flatter than earlier models, the crown doesn’t dig into my wrist, and the round display actually feels more ergonomic than Apple’s square design. On my scrawny wrist it fits perfectly, especially with the shorter of the two included bands. The default watch face shows what I actually use, the haptics are stronger than my old Apple Watch 6, and the display is refreshing. The band attachment is different, but since I’m not doing water sports, it’s a non-issue. Based on my experience so far, I’d rate it a 9.5 out of 10. 📈
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Not sure that I need e-ink on a device I glance at for a couple of seconds. E-ink is great on the Kindle to help with eye strain; e-ink seems to be the main selling point for this watch, but at $200 with a lot of compromises, doesn't seem worth it to me. Others here are extolling the 2 week battery life, which isn't uncommon outside of Apple. My Amazfit Bip 6 ($66 now on amazon) could get nearly 2 weeks, especially if I turned off heart rate sampling and other features that the Pebble doesn't have. Amazfit has a decent-sized community building watch faces for it as well. I owned an original Pebble, and it was neat for its time, but tech has moved forward substantially since then. Need more than nostalgia to bring me back.
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As someone who has multiple Apple Watch versions, this is a pre-order for me. The Pebble has that sweet spot of looks like a regular watch, fun, and battery life, that has been lacking a bit with the Apple Watches.
People still use their 13 year old OG pebble watch how long does an Apple Watch go for? (Who’s making e-waste here?)
I seriously don’t why people on this forum is against interoperability on apple products.
You don’t have to use third party hardware - but the option is nice.
I’m not following this logic. Apple blocks off tons of api so no one with an iPhone can get the same integrations they get with Apple Watch.
Apple stops others from syncing deeply with iPhones, running Apple-only apps, accessing full health data, or offering features like iMessage, FaceTime, and background system tasks—basically anything that makes the Apple Watch feel like a true iPhone extension.
I genuinely couldn't care less about heart rate monitoring. Does the Amazfit Activ 2 have a color eink display which gives you full readable notifications but also a battery life measured in days, not hours?
I don’t need e-ink on a watch to be able to read it. And yes, I could get nearly 2 weeks with the Active2/Bip6.
Enjoy dropping $200 on this garbage! 😂
When talking about the scales of a human lifetime, 70-80 years? Everyone. A device going to the landfill three years later than another device is STILL going to the landfill.
And? No one’s telling him to tell customers that his product is iPhone compatible. If folks want them, let them buy them. Complaining essentially that they don’t make a phone compatible with their devices the way Apple, Samsung and other companies do isn’t logical in the first place. The only people preventing them from doing the same is them.
Because all of Apple's products are perfect and if Apple did not create it, it is because it was not worth creating. Obviously! /s