Pebble (watch)
| Also known as | Pebble |
|---|---|
| Developer | Pebble Technology, Corp., Pebble Devices, Corp in California. |
| Manufacturer | Foxlink Group in Taiwan |
| Product family | Pebble |
| Type | Smartwatch |
| Generation | 1 |
| Release date | January 23, 2013 |
| Introductory price |
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| Discontinued | December 7, 2016 |
| Units sold | 2,000,000+ as of December 2017 |
| Operating system | Pebble OS; uses a customized FreeRTOS kernel. Can communicate with Android and iOS apps using Bluetooth. Portions of Pebble OS are closed source. |
| CPU | STM32F205RE Cortex M3 CPU |
| Memory | RAM 128 KB (84 KB OS, 24 KB app, 12 KB background worker, 8 KB app services) |
| Storage | Pebble Time series: 50 slots for faces/apps stored on watch, infinite can be loaded from the connected phone. Pebble Classic series: 8 slots for apps/watch faces, 100 KB per slot for a total of 800 KB user accessible space. The Kickstarter version has 4 MiB (32 Mibit) flash. Originals built after October 2013 and all Steel watches have 8 MiB (64 Mibit) flash. All models also have 512 KiB SoC flash memory |
| Display | 32-millimetre (1.26 in) 144×168 pixel Sharp Memory transflective LCD |
| Graphics | Pebble Classic/Steel: 1-bit black-and-white transflective LCD; Pebble Time: 64 (6-bit) color e-paper. |
| Sound | None |
| Input | 4 buttons 3-axis accelerometer with gesture detection magnetometer and ambient light sensor, microphone on Pebble Time models |
| Camera | None |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth 2.1 and 4.0 LE (used for iOS 7 notifications) + EDR |
| Power | 130 mAh, 7 days (assuming c. 20–30 notifications a day, and a per-minute updating watchface) |
| Current firmware | Version 4.3 |
| Dimensions | Pebble: 52 mm × 36 mm × 11.5 mm (2.05 in × 1.42 in × 0.45 in), Pebble Steel: 46 mm × 34 mm × 10.5 mm (1.81 in × 1.34 in × 0.41 in) |
| Weight | Pebble: 38 g (1.34 oz), Pebble Steel: 56 g (1.97 oz) (with default watchband attached) |
| Successor | Core Devices |
| Related | Fitbit |
| Website | pebble.com |
Pebble is a discontinued smartwatch developed by Pebble Technology Corporation based in Palo Alto, California that shipped from 2013 to 2016. A brainchild of Eric Migicovsky, funding was conducted through a Kickstarter campaign in 2012. It was the most funded project in Kickstarter history at the time, raising $10.3 million. Pebble watches can be connected to Android and iOS devices to show notifications and messages. An online app store distributed Pebble-compatible apps from many developers including ESPN, Uber, Runkeeper, and GoPro. Pebble has been succeeded by Core Devices, a company founded by Eric Migicovsky manufacturing new PebbleOS devices under the Core name, and continuing software development on the open source PebbleOS project.
A steel-bodied variant to the original Pebble, the Pebble Steel, was announced at CES 2014 and released in February 2014. It had a thinner body, tactile metal buttons, and a Corning Gorilla Glass screen. In 2015, Pebble launched its second generation of smartwatches: the Pebble Time and Time Steel. The devices were similarly funded through Kickstarter, raising $20.3 million from over 75,000 backers and again breaking records for the site.
In December 2016, Pebble officially announced that the company would be shut down, and would no longer manufacture or continue support for any devices, nor honor any existing warranties. The company was sold to Fitbit, and many members of the Pebble staff joined the company. Support for the Pebble app store, online forum, cloud development tool, voice recognition, and voice replies ceased in June 2018, although support for some online services was restored by the unofficial "Rebble" community.
Google acquired Fitbit in 2021, which still owned the rights to Pebble's operating system, brand, and designs. In January 2025, Google announced that the source code that the operating system Pebble smartwatches use, PebbleOS, would be open-sourced with founder Eric Migicovsky also announcing future devices and creating the website RePebble to market and explain the devices. In March 2025, Migicovsky announced new devices would be produced using PebbleOS under the Core Devices brand name.