Pebble 2 Duo ZDNET's key takeaways The Pebble 2 Duo is available now for $149, in both black and white colors.
The watch is extremely light and affordable, lasts for weeks, and features a vibrant and active development community.
You'll miss out on some common health-tracking tools, and the buttons are not the most tactile. View now at Store.repebble
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I've got a bit of a history with the Pebble brand. In 2013, I backed its first watch on Kickstarter, and then a couple of years later, I purchased the Pebble 2.
For the past couple of weeks, I've been wearing the latest Pebble 2 Duo which builds upon the features introduced in the Pebble 2. What's new? A bit of everything, as the Duo name -- a play on the words "do over" -- implies.
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At first glance, the Pebble 2 Duo looks about the same as the Pebble 2. It has a familiar crisp and clean high-contrast e-paper display, a quick-release 22mm watch band, one button on the left, and three on the right side. The best part? It supports both iOS and Android, with an active developer community that has since generated over 10,000 apps and watch faces to explore.
After my weeks of usage, here's my verdict on one of the more polarizing smartwatches in 2025.
Some key improvements have been made since the launch of Pebble 2 in 2017, including increased battery life from 7 days to 30 days, enhanced water resistance from 30 meters to iPX8, and a newer generation Bluetooth chip, speaker, and barometer/compass sensors. All of this equates to a more burdenless experience, as I'm spending less time stressing about endurance and connectivity than in the past.
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