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by deadw3ight 1992 days ago
After reading what others have said and feedback on PineTime and what a good hackable watch should have, it seems like Pebble should resurrect from the grave as a hackable watch. I mean the pebble time had 128kb ram (this only has 64k ram), an color epaper display, 150mAh battery (over a week battery life), heart rate sensors, etc. Heck its even being supported by the open source community AFTER it was discontinued.

Maybe Fitbit can be petitioned to make the Pebble's hardware fully open source too.
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neilparikh 1991 days ago
Fitbit only bought the software IP, not hardware: https://investor.fitbit.com/press/press-releases/press-relea...
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saagarjha 1991 days ago
Who got the hardware?
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neilparikh 1991 days ago
Not sure, I didn't see any public announcements about that from Pebble.
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GekkePrutser 1992 days ago
Pebble's over, sadly. I assume fitbit will want to do something with the assets, why else would they have bought it? (PS: I always wondered what was in it for them actually)

I really hope the PineTime will pick up where it left off! But it's only in dev kit stage now.

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emiliosic 1992 days ago
I had the 1st two generation Pebbles, and now I'm using a Versa Lite. I do find a lot of resemblance on Pebble. Granted it's not open at all and their 'store' is, to me, much less inviting. Yeah not open source at all. However, I also recall that Pebble was looking into Android with their 'Pebble Core'. I do miss their e-ink screen
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GekkePrutser 1990 days ago
It wasn't eink! But low-power transmissive LCD. Best of both worlds IMO, faster refresh rate and still super low power.

I was a backer of the original pebble too.. It's a shame things didn't work out. I think they just grew too quickly and got caught up in too much investment money wanting too quick returns.

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