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Pebble Smartwatch Pebble (watch) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Pebble Smartwatch, often known now as the Pebble Classic, is an American smartwatch developed by Pebble Pebble Smartwatch Technology Corporation,[17] and is the first generation of the Pebble watch lineup. The smartwatch was pledged from a Kickstarter campaign, proving massively successful, collecting around $10 million for development of the smartwatch. Pebble connects to both Android and iOS phones, so they can display notifications from the phone, control music, view calendar events, and create reminders.[18][19] An online app store makes the Pebble compatible with apps tailored for them from many third party sellers, for many purposes especially sports. The Pebble is distinct from competing watches like the Apple Watch due to its fully functional, always-on e-paper displays that allow them to have full waterproofing and having a 7- to 10-day battery life, depending on the version.[20] E-paper inhibits the displaying of pictures, but it gives Pebble's watches better battery life and lower cost than competing Android Wear smartwatches and the Apple Watch.[21] The Pebble Classic features a monochrome, battery-efficient liquid-crystal display, a programmable CPU, memory, storage, Bluetooth connectivity, a vibrating motor, a magnetometer, an ambient light sensor and accelerometer; with the hardware Also known as Pebble extending its use into many roles including interacting with smartphone notifications, activity tracking, gaming, map display, controlling music and connected devices, setting timers, alarms, and reminders, viewing calendar events, and run and golf Developer Pebble Technology, Corp., Pebble Devices, tracking.[9][22] Corp in California.[1] When connected to an Android or iOS smartphone via Bluetooth, it will vibrate and display text messages, emails, incoming Manufacturer Foxlink Group in calls, and notifications from social media accounts when they are received on the paired device. It can also act as a remote Taiwan[2] control for the phone, or for cameras such as the GoPro. As of April 2015, the Pebble app store had over 6,500 apps and faces developed using Pebble's free software development kit (SDK).[23] Product Pebble family In 2015, Pebble Technology released its second-generation Time, with a color e-paper display, microphone, and updated Type Smartwatch design. Generation 1 Apps include remotes for Nest, sports scores, travel directions, live arrival time information for public transit systems, fitness Introductory Pebble: $89[3] tracking, news headlines, reminders, weather, checklists, and numerous other independently created apps. price Pebble Steel: $149 Pebble Technology Corporation raised $10.3 million through a Kickstarter campaign running from April 11, 2012, through Units sold 1,000,000+ as of May 18, 2012; this was the most money raised for any product on the site at that time. Best Buy, an American consumer December 2014[4] electronics corporation, began selling Pebble smartwatches in July 2013, and sold out within five days. On December 31, [4] Operating 2014, Pebble sold its one millionth smartwatch. In 2015, Pebble launched the Pebble Time and Time Steel with Kickstarter, Pebble OS; uses a raising $20,338,986 from over 75,000 backers, breaking records for both on the site. system customized FreeRTOS kernel[5][6] Can communicate with Android and iOS apps Contents using Bluetooth. Portions of Pebble OS are closed [7] 1 History source. Latest Version: 3.10.0 1.1 Development CPU STM32F205RE Cortex 1.2 Funding M3 CPU for Pebble Smartwatch and Steel, 1.3 Production and Cortex M4 for Pebble 2 Features Time and newer. Memory RAM 128 KB (84 KB OS, 2.1 Hardware 2.2 Software 24 KB app, 12 KB background worker, 8 KB 2.2.1 Pebble SDK app services)[8] Storage Pebble Time-series: 50 3 Reception slots for faces/apps 4 Pebble Steel stored on watch, infinite 5 Pebble Time can be loaded from the connected phone. Pebble 5.1 Hardware Classic-series: 8 slots for apps/watch faces, 100 KB 5.2 Software per slot for a total of 800 KB user accessible 5.3 Funding and records space. The Kickstarter version 6 See also has 4 MiB (32 Mibit) 7 References flash.[9][10] Originals built after October 2013 8 External links and all Steel watches have 8 MiB (64 Mibit) flash.[11][12][13] History All models also have 512 KiB SoC flash Development memory Display 32-millimetre (1.26 in) The Pebble Smartwatch was designed based on a concept by Eric Migicovsky describing a watch that could display messages 144×168 pixel Sharp from a smartphone and select Android devices. Migicovsky successfully took his idea through the Y Combinator business Memory LCD "e- incubator program, and unusually for a startup company at Y Combinator, Migicovsky's business actually generated revenue paper"[14][15] during the program.[24] Migicovsky was able to raise US$375,000 from angel investors such as Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, but was unable to raise additional funds.[24] Discussing his inability to raise further funds, Migicovsky told the Los Graphics Pebble Classic/Steel: 1- Angeles Times, "I wasn't extremely surprised... hardware is much harder to raise money for. We were hoping we could bit black-and-white e- paper; Pebble Time: 64 convince some people to our vision, but it didn't work out."[25] (6-bit) color e-paper. Funding Sound None Input 4 buttons After raising venture capital for the product under their former name Allerta (which had already developed and sold the 3-axis accelerometer inPulse smartwatch for BlackBerry devices), the company failed to attract traditional investors under their new Pebble brand with gesture detection [24] name, so the company requested crowd funding in April 2012. magnetometer and Migicovsky's company Pebble Technology launched a Kickstarter campaign on April 11, 2012, with an initial fundraising ambient light sensor,[5] target of $100,000. Backers spending $115 would receive a Pebble when they became available ($99 for the first 200),[26] microphone on Pebble Time models effectively pre-ordering the $150 Pebble at a discounted price.[25] Within two hours of going live, the project had met the $100,000 goal, and within six days, the project had become the most funded project in the history of Kickstarter to that point, Camera None raising over $4.7 million with 30 days left in the campaign.[25][18] Connectivity Bluetooth 2.1 and 4.0 LE (used for iOS 7 On May 10, 2012, Pebble Technology announced they were limiting the number of pre-orders. On May 18, 2012, funding notifications) + EDR closed with $10,266,844 pledged by 68,928 people.[27] Power 130 mAh, 7 days (assuming ~20–30 Production notifications a day, and a per-minute updating Pebble worked with consulting firm Dragon Innovation to identify suppliers and manufacturers.[2] After overcoming watchface) manufacturability difficulties with the prototype design, Pebble started mass production with manufacturer Foxlink Group in January 2013 with an initial production of 15,000 watches per week. Shipping was originally expected to begin September Dimensions Pebble: 52 mm × 36 mm 2012,[28] but Pebble Technology encountered manufacturing difficulties and began shipping units on January 23, 2013.[29] × 11.5 mm (2.05 in × 1.42 in × 0.45 in),[16] Pebble shipped 300,000 units by December 2013 during its first year of production,[30] over 400,000 by March 2014,[31] Pebble Steel: 46 mm 450,000 as of July 2014,[32] and 1 million by December 31, 2014.[33] × 34 mm × 10.5 mm (1.81 in × 1.34 in Features × 0.41 in) Weight Pebble: 38 g (1.34 oz), Hardware Pebble Steel: 56 g The watch has a 32-millimetre (1.26 in) 144 × 168 pixel black and white memory LCD using an ultra low-power "transflective (1.97 oz) (with default LCD" manufactured by Sharp with a backlight, a vibrating motor, a magnetometer, ambient light sensors, and a three-axis watchband attached) accelerometer.[9][34][35][22][36] It can communicate with an Android or iOS device using both Bluetooth 2.1 and Bluetooth 4.0 Backward Android, iOS (Bluetooth Low Energy) using Stonestreet One's Bluetopia+MFi software stack.[37] Bluetooth 4.0 with low energy (LE) compatibility support was not initially enabled, but a firmware update in November 2013 enabled it.[38] The watch is charged using a Successor Pebble Time (both normal modified USB-cable that attaches magnetically to the watch to maintain water resistance capability.[34] The battery was and Steel variants) reported in April 2012 to last seven days.[39] Based on feedback from Kickstarter backers, the developers added water- Website www.pebble.com resistance to the list of features.[40] The Pebble has a waterproof rating of 5 atm, which means it can be submerged down to (https://www.pebble.com) 40 metres (130 ft) and has been tested in both fresh and salt water, allowing one to shower, dive or swim while wearing the watch.[41] Software As of February 2014, the Pebble app store had over 1,000 applications.[42] These include notifications for emails, calls, text messages & social media activity; stock prices; activity tracking (movement, sleep, estimates of calories burned); remote controls for smartphones, cameras & home appliances; turn-by-turn directions (using the GPS receiver in a smartphone or tablet); display of RSS or JSON feeds; Pebble can display and hundreds of custom watch faces. notifications when, for example, one receives an The Pebble was originally slated to ship with apps pre-installed, including a cycling app to measure speed, distance & pace through email. GPS, and a golf rangefinder app supporting more than 25,000 courses. These apps use data received from a connected phone for distance, speed and range information.
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