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The Pebble Has Been Brought Back (store.repebble.com)
submitted 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Google recently open sourced Pebble and today, Repebble has put some of the watches up for preorder.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Quote is from Wikipedia. You can see it's the case for both models here:

Besides, I own a Pebble Time watch and can tell you, it doesn't perform like a typical e-paper. It has the bad viewing angles of LCD and screen goes blank when power is lost.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

That quote is on under features on the article for the original Pebble, right? Might be that the Pebble 2 used a different screen; I can't really find info on that though.

Regarding the Time, I think the product page for the new Time 2 specifically says how the curved screen lens on the Pebble Time wasn't that good.

Edit: Found the quote under the Core 2 Time section

Flat glass lens (less glare and reflections than Pebble Time family curved lens)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

From the Verge article:

The first watch that Migicovsky and Core plan to ship is called the Core 2 Duo (not to be confused with the old Intel processor), which Migicovsky says will cost $149 and will ship in July. [...] It has the exact same black-and-white e-paper display as the old Pebble 2 (technically a transflective LCD, if you’re curious)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Ah I see