"What we realized over the years, is that the metaphor for apps doesn't really translate to smartwatches."
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Once you install more than 10 to 15 apps, it gets really complex," says Migicovsky. "The current way we deal with apps is to just put them in a list. So someone could very well develop a digital assistant app like a Siri or a Google Now and have it work with Pebble Time.īut aside from these various hardware improvements, perhaps the biggest change of all is the new Pebble operating system. Later on, developers will also be able to add voice input into their apps as well. If that sounds rather limited, well Pebble is also opening up the voice API to developers, so they can use the voice-response capability in their apps too. Pebble Time also comes with a voice-note capability for quick, dictated notes. That audio reply can be translated to text if you like, but you also have the option of just sending the audio file, which is good if you're in a noisy environment where voice-to-text won't work as well. For example, when you get an email, you can select it and reply with your voice right then and there.
So instead of an open-ended voice interface where you can ask anything, Pebble Time's voice feature is very focused on one thing: voice responses to incoming notifications. Sometimes it causes you more hassle than just pulling out your phone and typing stuff in." "But a lot of times it doesn't work that well.
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"We tried it with Android Wear," says Migicovsky. But before you think it'll work with Google Now or Siri, think again.
And yes, it's just as water-resistant as the original.Īlso, at long last, Pebble Time now has a microphone. The Time even comes with a little quick-release toggle so that you can easily swap straps. As for the straps, it comes with a silicone band, but any standard 22mm band will work just fine. It still has that square display, but the glass on the display is scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass the bezel is stainless steel and the rest is polycarbonate. The new Pebble Time is also smaller and thinner than the original Pebble - 20 percent skinnier, in fact - and the watch housing is ever so slightly curved to better fit the curvature of the wrist. "It's 30 frames per second on an e-paper screen," he says. During our chat, Migicovsky actually showed me a functioning Pebble Time, with an animating nyan cat in all its rainbow glory running on the watch. This gives it two significant advantages: 1) The watch face can be always on all the time and 2) It has up to seven days of battery life, just like the original Pebble. So instead of OLED or LCD, Pebble went with e-paper. The battery life was poor the watch screen would turn off and you'd have to press a button to turn it back on." "We couldn't deal with the compromise of LCD or OLED. "It just wasn't doing it for us." In the end, he says, a smartwatch has to be a great watch.
"We looked at all the different screen technology like LCD and OLED, and we tried all of the different watches that have them," says Eric Migicovsky, CEO and founder of Pebble. You can disable notifications at any time in your settings menu.
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