Pebble Time, Time Steel, and Classic available at discounted prices from OEM

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

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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Pebble Time smartwatch scores temporary 25 percent price cut

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

With September’s launch of the circular-screened Pebble Time Round, the rectangular Pebble Time is no officially no longer the same new hottness it was back when it debuted earlier this year as the company’s first smartwatch with a color display. But that’s fine, because not only does it mean that we have new round option to look ...

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Voice dictation on Pebble Time now open to third parties

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

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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Where does the Microsoft Band 2 fit in with the competition?

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

There’s no question Microsoft checked almost every box it needed to for its highly anticipated Windows 10-centric event to be deemed an overall success, but not all new devices showcased on Tuesday looked like blockbusters in the ...

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Pick me up a six-pack of tablets, willya? | Pocketnow Weekly 166

Posted on by Michael Fisher

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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IDC: Apple Watch will lead explosive wearables growth, but not necessarily forever

Posted on by Jules Wang

IFA 2015 was apparently, at least in Hayato Huseman’s eyes, all about the wearables. We glimpsed into the Samsung Gear S2, the Huawei Watch, the second-generation Moto 360 and quite a few others. This comes after a rather

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Pebble Time scores feature-packed firmware update

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Pebble’s latest smartwatch has been charming us for weeks now, as the color-screened Pebble Time took an already successful smartwatch and only managed to improve upon it. We’ve been busy checking out recent developments like the start of retail sales, as well as talking about some of our favorite customization options, and now we get word of Pebble’s latest effort to fine-tune the Time user experience, upon ...

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Your personalized Pebble Time experience

Posted on by Adam Doud

The Pebble Time is a really nice smartwatch. It’s so nice in fact that I haven’t stopped wearing it since I got it. I have a Moto360 at home waiting patiently, but right now the Pebble Time is doing a very good job doing what I need it to do. But more than that, I’m enjoying a very personalized Pebble Time experience. This isn’t to say that I can’t have that kind of experience on Android Wear – that’s not what this article is about. What we are talking about here is how to get the most out of your Pebble Time and really make the experience yours.Faces of funThe watch face is ...

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Pebble Time makes brick-and-mortar debut as smartwatch comes to stores

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Slowly but surely, Pebble’s latest wearables have been becoming available to more and more shoppers. We’re still in the Pebble Time phase of deployment – Pebble Time Steel will be on its way soon, though – and have been moving past initial shipments fulfilling crowding commitments to the first steps towards broader retail availability, with Best Buy accepting Pebble Time pre-orders. Today that path to ...

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Pebble Time: a day in real life with the smartwatch (Video)

Posted on by Hayato Huseman

The Pebble Time is one of the hottest new smartwatches to hit the market, and though we’ve already reviewed it and compared it to Android Wear, reviews only get you so far. Sometimes using a product as a normal consumer goes beyond what specs it has or how it holds up against similar products. There are small things that we don’t mention in our reviews, like the strong vibration feedback from the Pebble ...

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Pebble Time custom skins arrive from dbrand

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

The new color-screened Pebble Time has landed, and we’ve been spending the last few weeks covering the smartwatch’s arrival. The original Pebble (and Pebble Steel) already offered users a lot of customization options with the help of alternate watchfaces, and the debut of the color display with this generation only opens the door for more variety. Beyond that, you can always swap out the band for another 22mm option. But if even that’s not enough for you, and you crave further ...

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Five smartwatch problems you’d think they’d have solved by now

Posted on by Michael Fisher

As fun as it can be to marginalize and criticize them, smartwatches are magical pieces of technology. From something as mainstream as an Apple Watch to something as fringe as a Cogito Classic, today’s wristborne wearables are modern miracles of miniaturized intelligence. As I say at the top of every Pocketnow Weekly ...

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Pebble Time vs. Android Wear (Video)

Posted on by Hayato Huseman

Pebble has sort of been the father of all smartwatches. The origin. It was the first of its kind … but certainly not the last. Over the past year, give or take, we’ve watched the rapid growth of a new wearable platform, Google’s Android Wear, and with its rising popularity, the Pebble has begun to feel … dated. But now Pebble has released a new watch, the Pebble Time, and with it came a new interface — what the company is calling Timeline UI. It’s a nice refresh to the tired monochromatism of Pebble past, but Google also recently released an update to Android Wear, version ...

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The 4 worst arguments against the smartwatch

Posted on by Michael Fisher

I remember the moment I realized smartwatches had a chance at being the next big thing in mobile. It was the spring of 2012, I’d just spent a week with the original Pebble, and I suddenly found myself unable to live without it. It was 1999 all over again: I was a wristwatch-wearing man, and leaving the house without it prompted angry expletives and a day full of accidental glances at an empty wrist.Three years later, smartwatches have made the jump to the mainstream consciousness. No longer ...

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Pebble Time review: function over form

Posted on by Michael Fisher

It was over two years ago that we gave you a taste of life on the very first Pebble – the product that smashed crowdfunding records and almost singlehandedly launched the modern smartwatch era. The little Bluetooth wearable would go on to sell over a million units in both standard and Steel trims, and when the sequel Pebble Time hit Kickstarter this past March, it broke another record by being the first Kickstarter ...

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