Wearable devices are slowly finding their groove and utility, acting like more than glorified pedometers or classic, dumb watches incapable of quickly telling the time when distanced from a smartphone.Still, the Apple Watch remains essentially the only mainstream wrist-worn gadget endowed with mobile payment functionality, at least ...
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The built-in microphone of the Pebble Time, Time Steel, and Time Round smartwatches has been one of the trio’s most underused features since day one, especially when paired with iPhones. On iOS, you couldn’t even answer to text messages using your voice without pulling the iDevice from your pocket, an uncomfortable situation that’s about to change, at least for postpaid AT&T ...
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Did you know you could purchase Pebble smartwatches directly from the manufacturer? Probably not, seeing as how they’re everywhere, from Amazon to Best Buy to Target. But this week, you have all the reasons in the world to take your business to Pebble, not third-party retailers.As part of yet another early Black Friday sale offered by a tech company fearful it may not make many waves come November 27, the Pebble Time Steel is already marked down from a starting price of $250 to $200 and up.
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The Pebble Time and its later successors garnered some decent fame over the last few weeks. Surely Pebble isn’t necessarily building the best looking round smartwatch, but we’ve got to hand it to the company for adding new features while sticking to most of its roots in this new line of smartwatches. Voice Dictation was one of those innovations, and today it gets an extra kick.As of today Pebble has announced that it is allowing third-party developers to add voice dictation to apps for the Pebble Time, Pebble Time ...
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Update: Now with more silicon than ever.Hey, do me a favor? Next time you go on down to the Piggly Wiggly, see if they’ve got them there tablet six packs? I won’t have ’em all, I promise; I just want a couple for the road.Yep, things got a little craaaaaazy in mobile technology this week. In the midst of our comprehensive Moto X Pure Edition review and a boatload of hands-ons from CTIA in Las Vegas, we’ve seen Nextbit announce a cloud-based smartphone, Apple allow an ad blocker into the App Store, and Amazon release, yes, tablet six-packs. And on top of all ...
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The last couple months have seen Pebble’s next generation of smartwatches arrive bit by bit. First we saw the Pebble Time start going out to its crowdfunding backers, then later become available to shoppers at large; most recently, we’ve even started talking about brick-and-mortar retail sales. But that’s only half of the new Pebble picture, and we’ve also been anxiously awaiting the new Pebble ...
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We’ve already seen what Pebble can do when it outfits its a smartwatch with a color display, and after launching this past winter, the Pebble Time finally arrived several weeks back. That’s given us ample time to get to know the wearable, at least in one form; shortly after the original Pebble Time went public, we learned of a second model, the metallic Pebble Time Steel. And despite the Pebble Time’s availability, ...
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The color-screened Pebble Time has been shipping out to its crowdfunding backers for several weeks now, and we’ve even seen general pre-orders open to the public at large. And while that edition of the smartwatch may be here, we’re still waiting for its metallic cousin, the Pebble Time Steel. When Pebble announced the smartwatch back in the early days of March, it promised shipments would start going out sometime in July. With the month nearly half over, today Pebble’s following things up with ...
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