After 8 years of absence, Pebble returns with 2 connected watches

We didn’t really expect it, and it is surely the most new technological of the day. Similarly, Eight years after the presentation of its latest model The Pebble brand is back on the front of the stage. In addition, Far from wanting to do figuration. Meanwhile, the company whose bone has just been open-source by fitbit, intends to seduce you with two new watches the Pebble “Time 2” and the “Duo”.

Certainly playing on the nostalgia for its products, they take up the features of the old watches of the brand. Meanwhile, Aesthetic level We will nevertheless appreciate the changes made in the choice of materials. However, in particular with the replacement of the plastic chassis with a much higher metallic version.

A standing climb for the Time 2 which does not fly off its price. Therefore, The connected watch is available from after 8 years absence, pebble $ 225 across the Atlantic. But the main feature of this Pebble watch is its screen. It is indeed very different from other slabs available on the market.

An e-Paper screen – After 8 years absence, pebble

It is Pebble’s trademark, it is impossible to miss it. So with Time 2, out of the question for the firm to deny its DNA. Its e-Paper screen is in the game. When the entire market of connected watches seek to produce ever more precise. bright slabs with the best possible resolution, Pebble takes the tangent.

So with this time 2 you should not expect OLED or record light. Nevertheless the watch offers a very beautiful screen with 64 different colors of displays. The resolution is not to be outdone with 200 x 228 pixels. The firm promises perfect readability, even in full sun. A point that will undoubtedly be studied during the first product tests.

A month of autonomy

This screen has a size advantage in the face of OLED watches. it is obviously its energy consumption. With such an energy -consuming screen, the watch has XXL autonomy. According to information transmitted by the brand in its communication campaign, it could operate for a whole month.

A real tour de force when you know that the Apple Watch. other connected watches sold by millions very rarely exceed both days.

Health monitoring

But the screen and the autonomy are only 2 of the 3 key points on a connected watch. With the Pebble Time 2, the brand succeeds in finding the third in order with a last criterion: monitoring health. The watch has a sensor measuring the heart rate continuously. Pebble explains that it has developed a sensor measuring the sleep cycles as well as a podometer alongside it.

after 8 years absence, pebble

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