- Google made the source code of pebbleos available for download in January
- Founder Eric Migicovsky has not lost the time that pebbleos is executed in a new hardware
- He made fun of progress and promised fans that it would be “a pea and almost exactly as you remember”
A few days after Google confirmed that he was doing an open source of Pebbleos, founder of the iconic Smartwatch brand, Eric Migicovsky, has already executed it in a new hardware, and has revealed the progress he has achieved by launching a new Pebble smart watch .
Before the best Apple Watch models flooded the market, Pebble was a Kickstarter smart clock project with a cult that followed about $ 10 million in support. Its devices could be connected to Android and IOS smartphones, and show notifications and messages on an electronic paper screen.
The company folded in 2016, and its intellectual property was bought by Fitbit for miserable $ 23 million, ending in Google filing archivators when it took over the popular manufacturer of fitness trackers.
Migicovsky announced that he brought Pebble back as soon as Google of open origin of the Pebbleos Code, is now moving at the light rhythm to obtain hardware in the world.
Pebbleos in nature
“We already have pebbleos compiling and executing in real hardware,” Migicovsky announced in a blog post. He also confirmed that he is pointing to a new chipset already open all his updates. In fact, he is flying to Shenzhen imminently to meet with factories and suppliers, preparing for a hardware launch.
He confirmed that a “small group of people” is helping him with the project, including other students of Pebble such as Steve Penna.
So what can the faithful of Pebble of the new device expect? “Please do not believe your hopes that the new watch has a new function x/y/z,” he warned. “It will be a pea and almost exactly as you remember, except now with open source software that can be modified and improved. More hardware details will be shared in the future.”
As noted above, Migicovsky has committed to many resuscitating many of the design principles that made Pebble popular: an e -paper screen always ignited, long battery life, buttons, a simple user experience and piracy.
We were not sure how serious migicovsky was, but this last development shows that he is not playing.
