All you need to know about the Pebble Time - smart watches, which gathered more than a million dollars in just one hour

To the novelty of the Pebble - the continuation of the line of smart watches companies - can be treated differently. Some people do not like the design, one does not see anything revolutionary about the functionality of new items. However, the wording Layfhakera prepared for you five facts that confirm that the Pebble Time is really good and worthy of your attention.

Pebble for the second time comes on Kickstarter in search of investment. And this time, the company took only 17 minutes to collect the necessary sum for the start of production hours. A Time of day received nearly $ 10 million of the required $ 500 thousand. And this time Pebble founder Eric Magikovski determined to make smartwatch Time one of the three main players in the market, making the company Apple Watch and Android Wear. A prerequisite to this, a lot of new items.

Pebble Time equipped with color e-ink-display. He did not fade in the sun, it is not necessary to continually include and is very energy efficient. In an interview with Engadget for Eric Magikovski he said that the company was able to achieve an animation at 30 frames per second on the screen of this type. And thanks to the conjunction with the Bluetooth Low Energy protocol by which the gadget is connected to the smartphone, Time Clock able to work a week without recharging.

New Pebble become lighter, thinner, and have received a completely new design. They're also made mostly of plastic, but now the screen surrounds the stainless steel rim. Protect your screen from scratches is a durable glass Gorilla Glass. In addition, Time completely protected from moisture - active sports lovers will be delighted. The ergonomics of the watch is also improved thanks to the slightly curved casing gadget.

The choice of the user will be prompted three color variations and a huge amount of interchangeable straps. You will be able to put on any Time strap, suitable for 22-mm mounting. And all the dials are designed for original the Pebble, and will work here. Thanks to all this novelty becomes really personal gadget.

Together with an updated design, the creators of Pebble Time presented and completely revised software Pebble OS. During 2014 the company managed to increase the number of developers from a few thousand to 26 thousand. Thanks to this clock got its own app store, which was filled with more than 6500 different titles. In the new Pebble he presented his vision of the ideal software for smart hours. New, but fully compatible with the products written for an older version of the software component.

It is based on the concept of dividing the working space into three conditional section: past, current and upcoming events. Each of these corresponds to a button on the right end of the device. Thus, the interface is almost entirely consists of a ribbon of events. In this case, it will not delos and the application menu, which, however, also redesigned, redrawn and add animations.

In addition to all the above, the creators of Pebble Time equipped them with built-in microphone. No, controlled with the help of voice assistant is impossible, but now you're, for example, be able to answer an important call or an incoming message, and create voice memos, without taking your smartphone pocket.

We tried to run Android Wear. But the system did not always work well, most of it turned out that much easier to pick up the phone and use it.

The new Pebble Time are better in every way. And their last trump card will cost. New products will be sold at the same price as its predecessor Steel. We can already pre-order by buying one of the available bundles on Kickstarter with 20% discount. Retail Price Time after the release of US $ 200, and while that kraudfandingovom resource is still possible to buy a set of two the Pebble Time is priced at $ 170 each.

The project on Kickstarter