Pebble shares new, lower smartwatch prices – and they’re retroactive

Today’s wearable market is a pretty darn competitive one, and it’s not surprising to see manufacturers get very aggressive with smartwatch pricing. That means the availability of lots of sales looking to capture consumer attention – but for as much as we love getting a good price, constantly chasing the latest sale can be tiring. Thankfully, Pebble’s ready to throw us a bone, today announcing some low prices that aren’t just some temporary promotion, but represent new and improved ...

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Pebble Times will soon support wrist payments if you back this smart strap Kickstarter

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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Pebble updates galore: fitness-tracking Pebble Health, timeline UI for first-gen models

Smartwatches are a super-attractive gift this holiday season, and manufacturers are doing everything they can to make sure it’s their models we’re putting under the tree. Pebble’s been really standing out over the course of the last few weeks, both thanks to some great deals on various models – including an only very recent price cut on the new Pebble Time Round – as well as promises of a major ...

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Pebble Time Round finally scores a discount of its own, goes on sale for $200

Pebble’s latest wearable has been out for about a month, with shipments of the Pebble Time Round beginning in early November, following the smartwatch’s launch all the way back in September. Perhaps by nature of it being so new, the company’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions skipped the Pebble Time Round, only ...

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Pebble Time lineup now enabled for voice and text replies on AT&T iPhones

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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The Pocketnow Holiday Shopping Guide 2015

Step back from the food court, I repeat, step back from the food court. Move away from the deals. Seriously, though, you might be on a sales safari come this weekend or a cyber chase on Monday. If you’re the type of person to give away phones and smartwatches for the holidays, though, it helps to actually consider what you’re getting and how it fits the person you’re getting it for.Like a sommelier does with wine, we’re given you our suggestions on what phones to look for when you’re talking about your dorky cousin Jane or your stylish uncle Jebidiah. Well, at ...

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

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 Round hits stores this weekend, as pre-orders start going out

This week’s proving to be a surprisingly busy one for fans of Pebble’s cross-platform wearables, and following news of a nice discount on this year’s Pebble Time smartwatch, and an update on availability of the timeline UI for first-gen models, it’s finally time to check back in with Pebble’s latest design, as we get word of the arrival of the Pebble Time Round.The Pebble Time Round, you may recall, ...

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Voice dictation on Pebble Time now open to third parties

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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Will the Pebble Time Round make a difference?

This past week, Pebble introduced us to the Pebble Time Round. The watch is basically exactly what it sounds like – it’s a Pebble Time, with a round face. Sounds great in theory. I recently switched from my Pebble Time back to my Moto 360. I wanted to see first hand what improvements recent updates to Android Wear. There have been a lot, and they have been very good. But I started to wonder if “round” was going to help sell more Pebble smartwatches, despite what Android Wear brings to the table.The tables have turnedI’m worried about Pebble, to be honest. Now that I’m on ...

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Pebble Time Round debuts as company’s first circular-screen smartwatch

For the past few days now, Pebble’s been counting down to an announcement, and the smart money seemed to be on this signaling the release of a big firmware update for first-gen Pebble watches. That would have made for some interesting news, sure, but what we got today has turned out to be a heck of a lot more compelling: Pebble has just drawn the curtain back on the Pebble Time Round, a super-thin smartwatch with a circular display.Pebble Time Round features a color display, just like the Pebble Time, ...

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