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Eight years later, new but familiar-looking PebbleOS watches appear (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Alphane_Moon 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Core 2 Duo? Is this a nod to Pebble's retro aesthetic/appeal or just a coincidence in product naming?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

They said in the announcement that the Duo means Do Over so it's mostly the same as the OG 2 but with upgrades.

[–] ricdeh 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It is a smart watch. Why do you want to waste bleeding-edge processors on it when older designs do perfectly well? Certainly more sustainable.

[–] Blue_Morpho 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

He's talking about the name of the new Pebble which was the name of Intel's CPU from 2008.

The CPU is a single core Arm-M4 inside a nRF52840 SOC.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I want my smart watch to require liquid cooling and to constantly video everything around me and have a GPU running AI dedicated to monitoring everything so that it can use a 25W speaker to blast what types of individual animals are around me.

"HUMAN DOG HUMAN HUMAN BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD SQUIRREL BIRD BIRD HUMAN CAT CHUPACABRA WORM HUMAN BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

are these worth it? how's the company trust wise

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I was a developer for some apps for the first run of pebble watches between 2012-2016. It was one of the funnest devices to use. Very functional, long battery life and amazing community supporting it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I don't know what the original pebble was like but I'm very interested by these.