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Unofficial smartwatch hardware interest survey: would you want a Pebble successor to be rectangle or round? B&W or color? Plastic or steel? (forms.gle)

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I'm sure you've all seen the news by now. Can sign up for updates here! (repebble.com)

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Repebble is starting up from the original creators and a small team. I think we can get some awesome watches coming with modern components and maybe a couple cool new features.

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The Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback. Google has open-sourced the Pebble software, which means anyone — including Pebble’s founder — can make one. (www.theverge.com)

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Google agreed to release Pebble OS to the public. As of Monday, all the Pebble firmware is available on GitHub, and Migicovsky is starting a company to pick up where he left off.

The company — which can’t be named Pebble because Google still owns that — doesn’t have a name yet. For now, Migicovsky is hosting a waitlist and news signup at a website called RePebble. Later this year, once the company has a name and access to all that Pebble software, the plan is to start shipping new wearables that look, feel, and work like the Pebbles of old.

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See the code that powered the Pebble smartwatches | Google Open Source Blog (opensource.googleblog.com)

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We are excited to announce that the source code that powered Pebble smartwatches is now available for download.

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Rebble · The future of Rebble (rebble.io)

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Pebble was one of the best smartwatches ever and now it's a miracle if you can get one to work (www.techradar.com)

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My vibrator motor finally bit the dust. RIP (lemmy.world)

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I've been keeping my pebble 2 alive for a very long time. New battery a few months ago, rewiring the vibrator motor due to the wire breaking at the solder point, new 3d printed buttons.

It's been working great for a very long time. Today, the motor itself is dead, resoldering it yielded no joy.

I think I need to retire this watch. I've asked my brother if I could buy one of his (he backed all the kickstarters) that isn't working any more. I'll replace the battery in it, and get it working again.

It's so sad that these aren't made any more. No significant changes or updates in what, like 7 years, and it still functions nearly perfectly. I wish so badly that someone would pick up where they left off and manufacture some more.