Although they may have drowned in the sea of little new smart watches the last time, the bells from Pebble some of the most popular on the market. Pebble has now launched a brand new smart watch on Kickstarter, called Pebble Time, and this has already set new funding record. It reports Kickstarter itself in a Twitter message.
In the report, Pebbles new smart clock collected one million, approximately 7.6 million dollars, in just 30 minutes. Subsequent upward adjustments Kickstarter the actual time to 49 minutes to Engadget, but this is still a new record by a wide margin.
Color Display
In another tweet says Kickstarter that over 20,000 people pledged money product in just three hours, also an impressive number. In writing, financing sum Pebble Time reached 4.6 million of a target of 500 000 and yet there are 30 days left.
One of the factors Kickstarter-people enthralled by enough that the new Pebble Time clock finally got a color screen. As previously developers chose not use LCD or OLED technology to display, but rather electronic paper, which can now have color capacity.
Electronic paper used in, among other e-book readers and has among others the great advantage that they use significantly less power than other display technologies. This is because the screens do not have a separate light source, but must use the ambient light in the same way as regular paper. In return, however, they lower response time and resolution.
Good battery life and new interface
The developers chose this technology because they were little impressed battery life of other smart watches on the market. Pebble Time will have a battery life of the whole 7 days. In addition to this time is 20 percent thinner than before, with a thickness of 9.5 millimeters, and is both waterproof, ergonomic and more durable.
Of other news coming clock with built-in microphone that lets you answer incoming messages by voice. Pebble Time also comes with a brand new “timeline” interface where all messages, news, reminders and other things are organized seamlessly and chronological order, instead of being divided between different apps. That way you will easily be able to scroll back and forth in time to see all the relevant information.
Pebble TIme is compatible with all existing Pebble applications. To ensure you a copy of the new smart time you must promise the least $ 179 on Kickstarter. Regular retail price by Kickstarter campaign will remain at $ 199, about 1500 kroner, and the product becomes available in May. More information can be found on Kickstarter and also see the video below.
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