- Core Gadgets broadcasts Pebble Spherical 2
- The brand new smartwatch has a giant e-paper display
- It additionally guarantees every week of battery life per cost
After a phoenix-like rise from ashes in 2024, Pebble continues to soar again into the smartwatch house with an all-new Pebble Spherical 2.
If that identify sounds acquainted, it is as a result of the brand new wearable arrives a decade after the unique underwhelming Pebble Time Spherical. As a substitute of a lackluster rehash, the Pebble Spherical 2, from Pebble platform savior Core Gadgets, seems to repair nearly all its predecessor’s shortcomings.
The Pebble Spherical 2, which will probably be proven at CES 2026 however is not going to ship till Might, encompasses a colour e-paper show and an edge-to-edge 1.3-inch display. Put one other method, the display’s face is considerably bigger than the unique Spherical’s, which had a large, inert bezel.
The opposite main replace is the battery life. Pebble is ranking the brand new Spherical at as much as seven days of battery life. The Pebble Time Spherical was rated for simply a few days. Core Gadgets achieved this with out considerably rising the watch’s thickness. The Pebble Spherical 2 is 8.1mm thick, which is simply barely thicker than the Pebble Time Spherical.
It is even cheaper than the Pebble Time Spherical, priced at $199 in contrast with the Pebble Time Spherical’s $249.
The Pebble Spherical 2 can be a really a lot a wearable of its time, monitoring steps and sleep, and together with each an accelerometer and a magnetometer. It even has a contact display, although Pebble says you are free to disregard it. There’s even water resistance (although the extent of safety, listed as “30m goal,” is at the moment unclear).
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The brand new Pebble Spherical 2 joins the Pebble Time 2 (sq. and that includes one other giant e-paper show) and the still-fresh Pebble Index 01, a sensible ring that has no real interest in your well being however could be the little bit of on-your-finger short-term reminiscence keeper you have been lacking (it could document brief voice notes).
The rising steady of wearables lends credence to the impression that the open-source Pebble platform is shifting from survival to development mode. For greater than a decade, it has been held aloft by long-held adoration amongst a small contingent of Pebble followers (I am certainly one of them). For a interval, the main focus was on software program updates to assist the unique Pebble watches.
Open supply stays on the coronary heart of Core Gadgets’ efforts, however the reported 15,000 apps and “hundreds of Watch Faces” now have new properties, together with this newest watch, which is now on pre-order and ought to arrive in Might.
Shade choices on the stainless-steel body will embody matte black, brushed silver, and polished rose gold. In contrast to a lot of at this time’s finest smartwatches, the Pebble Spherical 2 will assist each iOS and Android.
Will the second Spherical be a knockout for Pebble? It is too quickly to say, however Core Gadgets guarantees that each one photos offered are of actual, working Pebble Spherical 2 fashions, and we will probably be seeing them in particular person at CES 2026.
That will probably be our first probability to find out whether or not Core Gadgets has really fastened all the authentic Spherical’s issues and created a smartwatch various not less than as compelling as an Apple Watch or a Samsung Galaxy Watch.
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