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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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[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I just want a watch that can read text messages and has a long battery life. The Pebble and Pebble 2 fit that bill for me.

Until the buttons fell of the Pebble 2.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My gramin instinct fits this description. Mine is 1st gen and if I didn't use it for gps activity tracking the battery would probably last 2 weeks. Think I've had it for 4 years now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Wait you had a Pebble 2? Most people never received them because the company went under and canceled orders before they officially got released.

Are you sure you’re not thinking of Steel, Time or Round?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Pebble 2 was released in "HR" and "SE" models. You're thinking of the Pebble Time Steel 2.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I was one of the backers. I got it about the same week the company went under.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I also had a pebble 2 hr, even had two because I bought another one off eBay (unopened box). 3d printed some buttons and used is for many years until the battery basically died, and the software started to show it's age. Notifications became unreliable and such things, making it kinda pointless.

Still want nothing more than for it to work properly again. It's easy enough to swap the battery, now with the ability to fix the software, there might be a point to it.