The spirit of the original Pebble smartwatches from more than a decade ago is rekindled by the company’s founder with the new $149 Core 2 Duo and $225 Core Time 2 wearables.
Before the Apple Watch, Galaxy Watch, most modern Garmin smartwatches, and even Google’s Android Wear platform (which has since been renamed Wear OS), a little company called Pebble Technology tried and for a short while succeeded at developing a popular intelligent timepiece.
Unfortunately, that company is now gone, but if you miss the wearable industry’s early days (and early designs), a new outfit called Core Devices is basically bringing Pebble back from the dead this year. The Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2 smartwatches are not technically Pebble-branded, but they do run open source PebbleOS while looking remarkably similar to the 2016-released Pebble 2 and never-released Pebble Time 2 devices respectively from a cosmetic standpoint.
If so, you’re in luck. The Core 2 Duo can be pre-ordered today in exchange for just $149 ahead of a shipment start scheduled for July 2025. Should you hurry and secure yourself an early copy of this thing considering that July is still several months away?
Probably, as the budget-friendly wearable is only available in „limited quantities“ and this entire Pebble-reviving venture is apparently „personally funded“ by Eric Migicovsky, the company’s original founder, which means quantities might be really limited.
