By: Nina Raymont, Wearables & Health Editor / Jan 3, 6:42pm ET
It was 11 years ago when Pebble unveiled its first-generation round smartwatch, the Pebble Time Round. Eleven years later, the watch brand announced the Pebble Round 2, which includes updates that will please both experienced Pebble wearers and newcomers alike. The smartwatch isn’t as thin as the famously slim Pebble Time Round (it’s 0.6mm thick), but it offers ten days of battery life and maxes out a 1.3-inch e-paper display.
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Widening the display made it much easier and more legible to read notifications and messages on the new watch during the side-by-side demo. This watch is not designed for hardcore exercise tracking; Instead, it excels at basic health tracking (sleep and steps) while keeping the watch slim, beautiful, and as close to analog as possible.
“With this product, we wanted it to be the most stylish, elegant Pebble ever, and one of the things is to make it feel like it’s not a block of technology on your wrist. It feels more like a watch. To do that, it had to be thin,” Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky told me in an interview.
Pre-orders for Pebble Round 2 are now open.
