- Google made the source code of Pebbleos available in January in January in January
- The founder Eric Migicovsky has not waste time to operate Pebbleos on new equipment
- He has piled up progress and promised fans that it would be “a pebble and almost exactly as you remember”
Only a few days after Google confirmed that he was doing the open source of Pebbleos, the founder of the emblematic smartwatch brand Eric Migicovsky has already made it work on new equipment, and revealed the progress he has Made when launching a new SmartWatch Pebble.
Before Apple Watch’s best models were in the market, Pebble was a Smartwatch Kickstarter project with a cult that attracted some $ 10 million in support. Its devices could be connected to Android and iOS smartphones, and display notifications and messages on an electronic paper display.
The company fell with it in 2016 and its intellectual property was bought by Fitbit for $ 23 million, ending up in Google binders when he took over the manufacturer of popular fitness tracker.
Migicovsky announced that he was bringing Pebble back as soon as Google opened the Pebbleos code, now he moves to Lightning Pace to get the equipment out of the world.
Pebbleos in nature
“We already have pebbleos by compiling and by operating on real material,” said Migicovsky in a blog article. He also confirmed that he was aiming for a new chipset and opened all his updates. In fact, he flies to Shenzhen imminent to meet factories and suppliers, preparing for a material launch.
He confirmed that a “small group of people” helped him in the project, including other alumni of pebbles such as Steve Penna.
So what can the pebble faithful of the new device wait? “Please do not hope that the new watch will have a new X / Y / Z feature,” he warned. “It will be a pebble and almost exactly as you remember, except now with open source software that you can change and improve. More hardware details will be shared in the future.”
As indicated previously, Migicovsky is committed to resuscitate many design principles that have made Pebble popular: an electronic paper display always on, a long battery life, buttons, a simple user experience and hacking.
We did not know how serious Migicovsky was, but this last development proves that he does not spoil.
