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The Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback. Google has open-sourced the Pebble software, which means anyone — including Pebble’s founder — can make one. (www.theverge.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25280992

Google agreed to release Pebble OS to the public. As of Monday, all the Pebble firmware is available on GitHub, and Migicovsky is starting a company to pick up where he left off.

The company — which can’t be named Pebble because Google still owns that — doesn’t have a name yet. For now, Migicovsky is hosting a waitlist and news signup at a website called RePebble. Later this year, once the company has a name and access to all that Pebble software, the plan is to start shipping new wearables that look, feel, and work like the Pebbles of old.

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[–] 7 points 2 years ago

Hear me out:

This is what I want from Smart Glasses. Just a couple lines of text in a heads-up display. No cameras, no AR overlay, just a couple lines of text.

Please, someone...

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    The pebble was the best smartwatch of all time

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    sicko-wholesome i haven't stopped using mine and never even needed to use my backup pebble I bought in 2018, looking forward to whatever they come up with

    Tbh might keep using the old ones bc my favorite thing about it is there are no servers it can even talk to anymore, but still

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    [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Hell yeah. Could be fun to dick around with the code and see if I can customize it.

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    [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Sweet. Time to fuck up my og pebbles tryna replace the batteries.

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Sick!

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