By: Nina Raemont, Wearables and Health Editor / Jan. 3 at 6:42 p.m. 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, featuring updates that will please both veteran Pebble wearers and newcomers alike. The smartwatch is not as thin as the famously slim Pebble Time Round (it’s 0.6 mm thicker), but it offers ten days of battery life and maximizes the 1.3-inch e-paper display.
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Widening the display made reading notifications and messages far easier and more legible on the new watch during a side-by-side demo. The watch isn’t designed for hardcore exercise tracking; instead, it excels at basic health tracking (sleep and steps) while keeping the watch thin, elegant, 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 isn’t a block of technology on your wrist. It feels more like a timepiece. To do that, it had to be thin,” Eric Migicovsky, Pebble’s CEO, told me in an interview.
Pre-orders for the Pebble Round 2 are now open.