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 may please each veteran Pebble wearers and newcomers alike. The smartwatch will not be as skinny because the famously slim Pebble Time Spherical (it is 0.6 mm thicker), nevertheless it affords ten days of battery life and maximizes the 1.3-inch e-paper show.
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 maintaining the watch skinny, elegant, and as near analog as potential.
“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 do this, it needed to be skinny,” Eric Migicovsky, Pebble’s CEO, instructed me in an interview.
Pre-orders for the Pebble Spherical 2 at the moment are open.
