Pebble Technology: Fitness Pebble

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will enhance and expand the functionality of Pebble Time and Pebble Time Steel in a variety of ways. Examples include, but aren’t limited to, adding GPS and NFC sensors, enabling fitness tracking or even serving as an ancillary battery pack. The Though Pebble Time includes a microphone for recording messages, it does not include certain standard wearable features, such as a heart-rate or fitness tracker. Pebble suggests that fitness bands could be plugged into the Time for these added capabilities. For activity monitoring, it will track steps, and work with numerous fitness apps as well. Pebble claims up to a week of battery life. The Pebble Watch features a Gorilla Glass lens and stainless steel bezel. It will come in black, white, or red There are competitor platforms in-market today with apps on devices (Android Wear), another coming just a month away (Apple Watch), with yet more from fitness incumbents like Garmin (Connect IQ). Still, with over a million existing Pebble devices Besides being thinner and lighter than the original model, the Pebble Time has a casing that's slightly curved to better fit the wrist. The Pebble Time still uses standard 22mm watch bands but now, those bands can be removed with a quick-release button. The 30,000-square-foot store at 600 North Michigan Avenue will have a section dedicated to wearable fitness devices from Garmin, Pebble, Misfit and other brands, the Baltimore-based sports apparel maker said Thursday. The activity trackers and sports .

That’s decidedly outside of entry-level fitness band territory, and it’s even pricier than one or two full-fledged Android Wear devices. With extreme affordability no longer a selling point, Pebble is trying to market the Time Steel as a fashionable The work will be done by third-party hardware makers. The added functionality will include features such as specialist sensors for fitness or medical tasks or simply supplementary power. Pebble showed off a new model with a new UI last week that was having Now, with consumer interest in smart watches stoked by the impending April release of the Apple Watch, and with sales of fitness-tracking wearables also growing steadily, Pebble decided to go back to Kickstarter to introduce its latest product, the Pebble The black and white e-paper watch worked via Bluetooth with iPhone and Android phones to display notifications and work with fitness apps. It took in $10.3 million, 10,266 percent of its target. The Pebble watch started shipping in January of 2013 .