The first new Pebble smartwatches are coming later this year

Eric Migicovsky, the original creator of the Pebble smartwatch, is getting ready to ship two new watches. Migicovsky’s new company is called Core Devices, and these will be the first Core smartwatches to hit the market. But they are Pebbles in every important way: they’ll run the newly open-sourced Pebble operating system, they’ll have all the features of the old Pebble devices, and one of them will actually be built using leftover Pebble watch parts. They’re not called Pebbles, but they are Pebbles, and they’re coming soon. The first watch that Migicovsky and Core plan to ship is called the Core 2 Duo (not to be confused with the old Intel processor), which Migicovsky says will cost $149 and will ship in July. The name explains the whole idea, he says: “It’s like a Pebble 2, but it’s made by Core devices. And then ‘Duo’ is for do-over.” It has the exact same black-and-white E Ink display as the old Pebble 2, and it even comes in the exact same frame. “We were able to find a supplier ... Read full article.