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- The founder of Pebble has worked with new Pebble-like hardware.
- A countdown watch has emerged and signals an imminent announcement.
After a small coaxing from Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky, Google released the source code to run the OS back in January. Shortly after, Migicovsky announced that he and a small team were working on new Pebble-like hardware. If you have been waiting excitedly for a pebble back SmartwatchIt looks like the time is almost here.
Those who signed up for updates on the “Repebble” project receive an e -mail teasing that something is going down on March 18. E -mail address reads:
Time to get excited!
Set your alarm for March 18 (tomorrow!) At 09.00 PDT – 12 pm.
Also included the IE post is a link to a Repebble Store. If you follow the link, it will open a page containing a picture of a peel steine smartwatch with a countdown watch and the word “hey.” There is no mention of what this announcement will be about, but it will probably be the unit’s restarting. And we want to bet that advance orders will open this day.
If you are wondering what to expect gave Migicovsky a little teaser Back in February. In that shared image we saw the software running on a development board. Although we do not know what the new hardware will look like, Migicovsky has temperate expectations by saying that the device will be “almost exactly as you remember, except now with the Open Source software that you can change and improve yourself.”