Back to gravel e-paper smartwatch. Just don’t call the gravel

About ten years later His deathSmartWatch Maker Pebble is back. Today, the company’s founder Eric Migiovsky presented a new hardware working with open source pebbles. But it’s not because Google Gravel trademark owns Gravel Smartwatches. Instead, say hi to the first hours of a new brand named Core devices: Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2.

For a short history lesson, in 2012 turned glory through a Successful Kickstarter Campaign with Wild Successfully. Company smartwatches There are e-paper demonstrations and is ahead of the first Watching applesWearing notifications to see notifications, create special clock faces and even an App Store – Ability to access all in battery life one week Always in spite of the screen.

But the company Scale very quickly didn’t respond to sales targets then, as a result sell. A few years later, Google Fitbit receivedThis had the assets of the gravel.

The original gravel smartwatches did not keep the light for a while and helped a coalition of developers and amateurs to start Pebble’s religious-like fan Rebble Project To replace Pebble Web services When the fitbit ended, the main functions of the hours continue to work.

However, Migiovski needs to be introduced New hardware Pebble Pebbleos is a decision to let google’s source code In January. “If the source opens the source, I asked polite, and they made a very sincere way,” Migicovski said. “If Google has not done it, we will not be able to do what we do now, so we are super appreciation.”

Fresh leaf

This brings us to Migicovsky’s new brand-core devices – a nod Gravel nucleusless weary of the screen that is not shipped. This is a very small operation consisting of Migicovsky, another full-time employee and several contractors, and he says he took everything with a little more caution this time. Therefore, Core 2 Duo only about 10,000 units and a little more of the main time 2-Prepaids are alive today If you want to order one.

“I’m trying to build something constantly growing or die company,” Migiovski says. “We take our small risks, we see a few crops, we see each other and carefully build each other.

Core 2 duo

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