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The Pebble Watch Returns! Two Models in 2025, With Impressive Battery Life

The Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2 will have tons of retro watch faces, but this time the watches will last 30 days on a charge. They’re arriving later this year. Read more on CNET.com The Pebble’s Back, With Two New Watches: They Have 30-Day Battery Life Now 0:00 Intro 0:10 What Is the…

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March 24, 2025

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The Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2 will have tons of retro watch faces, but this time the watches will last 30 days on a charge. They’re arriving later this year.

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The Pebble’s Back, With Two New Watches: They Have 30-Day Battery Life Now

0:00 Intro
0:10 What Is the Pebble
0:40 What Happened to the Pebble
0:55 Core 2 Duo
1:30 Core Time 2
2:02 Release Info and Pebble Apps Store

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@vedanshchn

March 24, 2025 at 11:22 am

Pebble might have been launched before the Apple Watch, but the iPod Nano 6th gen was released 2 years earlier than that… Anyone who knows that thing, knows that it was basically like a standalone smartwatch.

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@swapnilemu9518

March 24, 2025 at 11:39 am

nope. no contactless payment and no music control in 2025 sounds like a huge failure. one of them don’t even have heart rate sensor! and I am 1000% sure the price will be more than 100 dollars for the cheaper one. that will be just super unpractical when CMF watch or other Chinese watches will give all of those in just 50 dollars.

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- @didiervandendaele4036
  
  March 24, 2025 at 7:08 pm
  
  Pebble is incredible even after 10 years !!!
  
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@SpyderWebbX

March 24, 2025 at 12:08 pm

Would the old Pebble watches run on the coming official Pebble app?

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- @didiervandendaele4036
  
  March 24, 2025 at 7:04 pm
  
  YES 😊
  
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@phillipcowan9392

March 24, 2025 at 12:33 pm

I wish there was a swim proof one

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@bigrob029

March 24, 2025 at 12:45 pm

dang, i remember that old cnet video! i went with fitbit because i couldnt track down a pebble at the time. on my 3rd one now and would like to get something different since google is happily driving fitbit into the google graveyard….

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@JaedoTae

March 24, 2025 at 12:57 pm

For $150, go for Amazifit

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@BobKeefe

March 24, 2025 at 12:59 pm

We loved our Pebble watch, especially the week-long battery life, and are happy to see it coming back.

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@BobKeefe

March 24, 2025 at 1:01 pm

Unfortunately, now that we’re in our 70’s, health monitoring (heart rate & fall detection) will probably push us towards an Apple Watch ☹️

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@ClearHaven9

March 24, 2025 at 1:40 pm

what worries me is that if you search e-ink smart wristband on taobao, you would find something look exactly like the Core 2 Duo. The new pebble watches hardware might be based on some existing cheap wristband.

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@jerrymeetsworld

March 24, 2025 at 1:51 pm

I used one for turn by turn navigation on my motorcycle. Useful for that but the internals were not built well, screens kept dying. Google Pebble tissue paper mod for some details on this issue that affected pretty much every gen 1 Pebble owner.

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@AnsonChiu

March 24, 2025 at 1:59 pm

hopefully they’ve upgraded their case materials on the new models. I charged up my previous model after 5 years in storage- and when i went to use the buttons, they fell apart!!! (from resin rot?)

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@ninjanerdstudent6937

March 24, 2025 at 2:09 pm

I never got my chance with the original 10 years ago, so I’m definitely buying this smart watch.

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@oriwan3786

March 24, 2025 at 2:15 pm

Prices are ridiculous.

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@kratosrage

March 24, 2025 at 2:47 pm

after seeing the price and features,I think this is gonna fail and Chinese brands will release better pebble alternative with fraction of price.

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@JackTheBlack1585

March 24, 2025 at 3:20 pm

Kind of disappointed with the design/look, but other than that, I love it. I’m probably going to buy one too.

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@linnsoltwedel

March 24, 2025 at 3:21 pm

LOL. I had this as my first “smart” watch! 😀

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@sidekick96734

March 24, 2025 at 4:10 pm

I owned two Pebble watches and they’re still the best smart watches I ever owned. They got a lot of things right. Keep it simple, epaper display, long battery life, the music control screen DIDN’T TIME OUT and finally the buttons were perfect for motorcycle riders because you didn’t have to look down to control your music app while riding. I’m so excited to hear Pebble is back.

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@Jasonkenny-

March 24, 2025 at 4:20 pm

Pebble is the worst company that has ever existed…sold a product that wasn’t ready with a huge design flaw that saw screen after screen fail. Only a FOOL would buy anything off Eric.

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@TheOborune

March 24, 2025 at 5:01 pm

I loved my pebbles, so hyped to see it coming back!!!

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@bweber9468

March 24, 2025 at 5:19 pm

I didn’t realize it doesn’t take calls it’s strange that it has a microphone and speaker but doesn’t take calls. I wonder if it will have an app that allows it to be done whenever somebody hacks The Watch

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@amazighyacine

March 24, 2025 at 5:55 pm

Those prices are very high for this old technology

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@ivancis6614

March 24, 2025 at 7:24 pm

Yes

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@rosariodagosto6484

March 24, 2025 at 7:30 pm

No wonder it went bust ugly

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@grumpyolman2386

March 24, 2025 at 7:48 pm

it’s a big nope from me

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@jrrichards9392

March 24, 2025 at 9:11 pm

Looks like a kids toy

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I Was in AWE of This Techie Art Exhibit (Ministry of Awe)

Scott Stein takes you inside the Ministry of Awe, Philadelphia’s immersive six story art experience. Go on a journey with him as he explores how technology and art meet in this space. Hear from the founders of Spatial Pixel, who explain what inspires them to combine AI with this physical art experience. 0:00 Entering the…

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Scott Stein takes you inside the Ministry of Awe, Philadelphia’s immersive six story art experience. Go on a journey with him as he explores how technology and art meet in this space.
Hear from the founders of Spatial Pixel, who explain what inspires them to combine AI with this physical art experience.

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Apple at 50: Sharing Our Biggest Apple Memories

With Apple turning 50 this week, Bridget Carey goes down memory lane with her CNET teammates on what it was like to cover the iconic company and how the products shaped our lives. Read more on CNET.com Apple’s 50-Year Legacy of Product Innovation, Through CNET’s Lens 0:15 CNET reporters share their favorite Apple memories 0:22…

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With Apple turning 50 this week, Bridget Carey goes down memory lane with her CNET teammates on what it was like to cover the iconic company and how the products shaped our lives.

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0:15 CNET reporters share their favorite Apple memories
0:22 Bridget Carey’s start with Apple
0:39 iMac G3
0:48 Jeff Carlson learns newspaper layout and Page Maker on a Mac
0:56 Aldus PageMaker
1:02 Transporting a Mac Classic across campus on a bike
1:15 Scott Stein takes a PowerBook 145 to college
1:46 Abrar Al-Heeti’s favorite gadget is the iPod Nano (3rd Gen)
2:05 Faith Chihil bought an iPod with a click wheel in 2021 and uses it today
2:25 Can someone help Faith Chihil fix her Scion’s aux input?
2:43 Bridget Carey holds off on buying the first iPhones
2:48 iPhone 3Gs was Bridget Carey’s first Apple purchase
3:00 Vanessa Hand Orellana stands in line for iPhone 3s
3:26 Patrick Holland accidentally. became the face of the Apple Store
3:56 Bridget Carey starts her job at CNET in 2011
4:07 Bridget Carey goes to the Apple Store to cover the death of Steve Jobs
4:21 Patrick Holland watched fans pay tribute to Steve Jobs by leaving notes at the Apple Store
4:52 Patrick Holland describes working at the Apple Store
5:06 Iyaz Akhtar waits in line at the Soho Apple Store for Mac OS X Leopard
5:35 Bridget Carey remembers reporting on crazy lines for Apple product launch days
5:43 Vanessa Hand Orellana remembers reporting from iPhone lines
5:56 Jeff Carlson attends Apple’s infamous U2 Songs of Innocence album release event
6:09 Tim Cook and Apple give half a billion iTunes users a U2 album for free
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The ‘Camera’ That Can Do Anything | What The Future

I visited Lightstorm Entertainment for a behind-the-scenes look at how Avatar: Fire and Ash was filmed. Performance capture technology films every possible angle at once, then a virtual camera captures specific shots, and finally, the VFX team completes all the effects. 0:00 Inside the Avatar: Fire and Ash Production 0:29 Phase 1: The Volume &…

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0:00 Inside the Avatar: Fire and Ash Production
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