Pebble Revives and Revamps Its Quick-Lived Round Smartwatch

Minimalism is again in vogue. Pebble, the once-defunct and now revitalized wearables firm, has yet one more smartwatch that can remind you of when tech was straightforward, enjoyable, and—most significantly—had bodily system controls. The new $200 Pebble Round 2 presents a colour e-paper show and a multi-week battery life with out the squared Apple Watch-like watch face.

The new rounded smartwatch is a pseudo sequel to the outdated Pebble Time Round from again in 2015. The revised model sports activities a 1.3-inch colour touchscreen show with 260 x 260 decision. That show is bigger and sports activities much less of a bezel than the decade-old smartwatch.

There’s additionally an excellent higher motive to concentrate to this minimalist smartwatch. Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky guarantees the Round 2 will final an estimated two weeks earlier than it’s worthwhile to cost it once more.

The Pebble Round 2 helps contact controls. For those that hate tapping tiny screens, it’ll nonetheless use a four-button structure for navigating menus alongside its skinny, 8.1mm stainless-steel body. The smartwatch will help comparatively easy sleep, step, and well being monitoring options. It will even function the identical open-source working system that helps the Pebble Appstore for all of your new or outdated apps.

Pebble’s rounded smartwatch could also be its classiest look but, particularly with three colour choices in matte black, brushed silver, or polished rose gold. There are choices for 20 or 14mm silicon watch bands, although you may solely get rose gold in 14mm and matte black in 20mm. Pebble additionally says it’s making further leather-based band choices in every dimension.

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Pebble says the Round 2 is presently within the design verification stage of growth, so there’s no particular launch date. The firm plans to indicate the units off at CES 2026 (and you’ll guess we’ll attempt to go hands-on throughout the convention subsequent week). In a launch, Pebble wrote, “This watch has been a lot easier to build because we’re reusing the electrical design from Pebble Time 2, the mechanical design from Pebble Time Round, and open-source PebbleOS.”

At least, this design shall be far much less controversial than its recording ring, the Index 01. That ring has a restricted shelf life with none rechargeable battery, that means you’ll should ship it again to Pebble for recycling as soon as its product life is up.

Though there’s no exact launch date, you may nonetheless preorder the Pebble Round 2. If you have been ready on your $225 Pebble Time 2, you can too change up your selection of wearable for those who desire a tool with no corners. Pebble says clients can register to their preorder page to vary from the Time 2 to the Round 2.