Pebble Revives and Revamps Its Brief-Lived Round Smartwatch

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

The brand new rounded smartwatch is a pseudo sequel to the old 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 a fair higher purpose to concentrate to this minimalist smartwatch. Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky guarantees the Spherical 2 will final an estimated two weeks earlier than it is advisable to cost it once more.

The Pebble Spherical 2 helps contact controls. For many who hate tapping tiny screens, it’ll nonetheless use a four-button format for navigating menus alongside its skinny, 8.1mm stainless-steel body. The smartwatch will assist comparatively easy sleep, step, and well being monitoring options. It can additionally characteristic the identical open-source working system that helps the Pebble Appstore for all of your new or outdated apps.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 alternatives 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 additional leather-based band choices in every dimension.

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Pebble says the Spherical 2 is at the moment within the design verification stage of improvement, so there’s no particular launch date. The corporate plans to point out the gadgets off at CES 2026 (and you may wager we’ll attempt to go hands-on throughout the convention subsequent week). In a launch, Pebble wrote, “This watch has been quite a bit simpler to construct as a result of we’re reusing {the electrical} design from Pebble Time 2, the mechanical design from Pebble Time Spherical, and open-source PebbleOS.”

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

Although there’s no exact launch date, you may nonetheless preorder the Pebble Round 2. When you have been ready on your $225 Pebble Time 2, you too can change up your alternative of wearable in case you favor a tool with no corners. Pebble says prospects can register to their preorder page to vary from the Time 2 to the Spherical 2.