With more than a million copies sold, the Pebble is one of the most successful smartwatches on the planet. So far, only Samsung has been able to sell more smart watches, but it also has a whole fleet of smart timepieces instead of a model in two versions. And with the Apple Watch released this year, another serious competitor will soon come into play.
In an interview with CNET, CEO Eric Migicovsky was just showing how the next generation of Pebble will differ from its competitors in the wearable sector in the future. At least to some extent.
For example, the next generation of Pebble should also have an "Always on Screen". A crucial aspect for Migicovsky is that when you look at a smartwatch, the time can be read immediately. For Android Wear devices or smartwatches from Samsung, the display usually darkens to save energy. Only when the wrist is turned does the screen turn on again. In practice, however, this does not always work smoothly. And then sometimes annoys colossally.
Picture: Pebble
So far, more than a million copies of the Pebble have been sold.
Thus, the Pebble remains one of the few smartwatches that also works as a “real” conventional watch without any restrictions – and does not have to be switched on to read the time. But this also means that you will probably stick to the current energy-saving display technology. So you shouldn't count on colorful OLEDs, and touch operation also seems unlikely. At least elsewhere in the interview, Migicovsky speaks of the fact that many pebble users appreciate the physical keys. So why not stick to the tried-and-tested, especially since touch-sensitive e-paper panels are unlikely to be fun to use due to their long reaction times?
Migicovsky, however, indicates that the operating concept of the Pebble 2 differs from the current Pebble. According to him, no developer has noticeably improved smartwatch user interfaces recently – not even his company. No one would have thought much about what exactly you want to do with a smartwatch and how to do it as comfortably as possible. With the next Pebble, on the other hand, you will act very differently than is currently the case. Of course, this means “better and more intuitive”. In any case, I'm curious to see what new things the Pebble developers have come up with about Smartwatch UI.
Migicovsky doubts that sensors such as heart rate monitors make sense in smartwatches. In his opinion, the wrist is not the perfect place to get the most accurate measurement results possible. And he could indeed be right. As far as the pebble is concerned, he sees it more as a possible “hub”, i.e. as the center for collected data and the display of results. These could come from sensors attached to the body, for example, which the manufacturer equips with Pebble.
As far as the competition in the wearable market is concerned, Migicovsky is not particularly impressed by the Android Wear competition: “It's just Google Now, the same Google Now as on the mobile phone, and that leads to really annoying results just doesn't feel right. ”Migicovsky, on the other hand, is looking forward to the upcoming Apple Watch. Above all, how useful it is and how complex it is to operate.
It is not yet certain when the next Pebble with its new software will be presented to the public. The CNET article simply speaks of “later this year”.
Source: CNET
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