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Pebble’s Smartwatch Now Officially Supports Android Wear Apps
Here’s good news owners for the Pebble, the original smartwatch, who also have an Android device. Now your watch can take advantage of apps that support Google’s Android Wear platform,…
TC Droidcast Episode 31: Pebble, ZenWatch, And Smartwatch 3
Join us as we chat about the Pebble gaining support for Android Wear interactive notifications, the Asus ZenWatch and the Sony Smartwatch 3. We also get a little bit futurist…
Pebble 2.3 For Android Brings Interactive Notifications, Will Work With Android Wear-Ready Apps
Pebble’s upcoming Android software release will introduce support for directly replying to messages and performing other actions right from the watch based on inbound notifications. The 2.3 software update effectively…
Pebble Adds French, German And Spanish Language Options To Its Smartwatch App
Pebble is finally taking its smartwatch beyond English after it announced new updates that will make its interface and app store available in French, German and Spanish.
Myriam Joire, evangelist for the wearables company Pebble, has been fired from her position. She was Tech Evangelist at the company and spoke at a number of events, including an…
Pebble Gets A Permanent Price Cut, Plus Background Sleep And Activity Tracking
Smartwatch pioneer Pebble is hoping to make its platform accessible to more people with a permanent price drop of $50 and $30 for both the original Pebble and the Pebble…
If you’ve been considering a Pebble smartwatch but don’t like the current color options, a new limited edition release might just change your mind. Packing the same internal hardware and…
Wearables, primarily smartwatches, are in many ways a compelling idea. Yet do the actual wearables we’re seeing offer anything like that? From a gaming standpoint are they really that big…
Mobile Ad Startup TapSense Announces Support For Wearable Apps, Starting On Pebble
If you’re building apps for the Pebble smartwatch and other wearable gadgets, startup TapSense hopes to bring you into the wonderful world of mobile advertising. The company announced today that…
Pebble Teams Up With Misfit For Standalone Activity Tracking App
Smartwatch maker Pebble aims to be a lot of things to a lot of people, and today it’s deepening its appeal thanks to a new partnership. The hardware startup is…
Over a decade ago I was a happy man. In about 2002 I bought an Archos Jukebox. It was 6GB monstrosity, clad in metal and full of huge batteries, and…
Pebble Founder Emphasizes Multi-Year Lead On Android Wear And Google’s Smartwatch Ambitions
Pebble is one company that came to mind when Google unveiled its Android Wear smartwatch (and eventually, other wearables) development platform. The small startup has been creating smartwatch hardware for…
Virtual pets are a natural fit for the wrist-borne Pebble smartwatch, and it was only a matter of time before a Tamagotchi-inspired app made its way to the platform. One…
Pebble Kicks Off An Online Hackathon To Find And Reward The Best SDK 2.0 Smartwatch Apps
Pebble is launching an online software challenge, powered by ChallengePost, which begins today – right now, in fact. Developers who are interested in participating can submit new or existing apps…
TC Droidcast Episode 23: Samsung’s Music Milk Shake, HTC’s One 2 Punch
This week on the TechCrunch Droidcast, I’m joined by Chris Velazco as he shares his recent MWC memories. We also dig into Samsung’s new Milk Music streaming radio service, and…
Pebble Appstore Comes To Android, Alongside New Partner Apps From eBay, Evernote And TWC
Smartwatch maker Pebble has finally released its full version 2.0 app for Android devices, following a public beta originally brought the software and the Pebble Appstore to smartphones using Google’s…
Pebble Launches Its Appstore For iOS, Android Version Coming Soon
Pebble started shipping its new Pebble Steel hardware last week, but until today, the version of the companion app available to the general public didn’t contain any of the version…
Purr Pebble Smartwatch App Vibrates Your Life Away In 5 Minute Chunks
Yesterday, a new faceless “watch” called Durr that simply vibrates every five minutes got a big feature over at Verge. It’s an interesting concept, and in his article Aaron Souppouris…
Pebble Steel And Pebble Appstore Review: The Smartwatch Grows Up
The new Pebble Steel (which starts shipping today) has a lot in common with its predecessor, but it also comes with a software update that makes any and all Pebbles…
The Sidekick Gives Your Pebble A Place To Rest Its Head And Recharge
The Pebble smartwatch is a great gadget in many respects, but the one thing that has always struck me as less than convenient is the fact that it uses a…
Pebble Reveals The Pebble Steel For $249 Shipping Jan. 28; App Store Coming Soon
Smartwatch pioneer Pebble is introducing something everyone has been waiting for at CES this year: new hardware. But the hardware isn’t so new that it throws the baby out with…
Archos To Launch A Line Of “Pebble-Like” Smartwatches For iOS And Android At CES
Archos just dropped a huge smattering of CES news in advance of the huge annual tech show, which kicks off next week in Las Vegas. Among the various announcements, tucked…
As a dedicated watch nerd, I felt that smartwatches were, on the whole, awful. A watch was a watch – if made correctly and correctly handled it’s a miracle of…
Pebble’s Official Appstore Coming “Early 2014,” Will Be Built Into Android And iOS Pebble Apps
Pebble is finally getting around to creating an official app marketplace for software devs build for its platform. The Pebble Appstore, as it will be known, is going to debut…
Pebble Seeds Engineering Schools With 4K Free Smartwatches In A Bid To Drive Developer Interest
Pebble today revealed a new project aimed at education in which it will donate over 4,000 smartwatches to higher ed schools including Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Stanford, Virginia Tech and many…
The past decade has seen the consumer electronics war grow more furious and more personal: your living room is a battlefield, as are your desks and your pockets. Now, more…
Pebble Adds Bluetooth Smart Notifications For All Apps On iOS 7, Gives Devs More Tools With SDK 2.0
Pebble’s creators didn’t just make a functional smartwatch when they designed their device, they packed it with a lot of potential for the future, too. Much of that potential has…
The Ambient Economy
Access to information is addictive. The moment we have more of it – and more of it available at opportune times – the more we crave. I learned this first-hand…
Pebble’s Eric Migicovsky Is Uninterested In A Potential Acquisition
When it comes to competition, Pebble has plenty to be concerned about. In an interview on-stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, founder Eric Migicovsky seemed unconcerned about questions on competition…
Pebble Founder Eric Migicovsky Not Shaken By Samsung Galaxy Gear And Smartwatch Competition
Founder of smartwatch startup Pebble Eric Migicovsky took the stage at Disrupt, interviewed by our own John Biggs. He addressed head on the recently revealed competition from smartphone giant Samsung,…