Eric Migicovsky, creator of Pebble, has launched a new podcast to discuss his company's upcoming smartwatches, Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2. The Core 2 Duo, which features a black-and-white screen without touch capabilities, is scheduled to ship in July 2025. Despite some basic features being unfinished, Migicovsky remains optimistic. He also highlighted how US tariffs could impact pricing and delivery as well as the potential for integrating new capabilities into the devices.
Although Migicovsky believes the original Pebble team did a lot of things right a decade ago with the original Pebble watches, there are a few new features he wants to eventually introduce for the Core 2 Duo and the Core Time 2, a follow-up that's set to ship in December 2025 with a color touchscreen. Watch face widgets would make it easier to see information like the weather or upcoming appointments at a quick glance, while deeper integration with Beeper - the universal chat app Migicovsky developed after selling Pebble - will offer users enhanced communication capabilities.
Migicovsky is still confident the Core 2 Duo - the cheaper model with a black-and-white screen lacking touch capabilities - is going to ship some time in July 2025, but his demo of one of the first units from the factory shows a device with software that's still under development. The familiar PebbleOS UI is there, but basic features like telling time haven't been enabled yet, and the Core Devices team is still working on drivers for vibrating notifications and the smartwatch's accelerometer.
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