[HN Gopher] Pebble Round 2 - The Most Stylish Pebble Ever
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Pebble Round 2 - The Most Stylish Pebble Ever
Author : jackwilsdon
Score : 68 points
Date : 2026-01-02 14:56 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (repebble.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (repebble.com)
| rationalist wrote:
| I just placed my pre-order. I never bought the original Pebble
| Round because it didn't look that good in my opinion, but this
| one looks great! I like that there is no huge bezel anymore, and
| that the battery life is now an estimated 2 weeks instead of 3
| days. It looks more classy and less like a smartwatch.
| erohead wrote:
| Proud of this one! Feel free to ask any questions you might have.
|
| (Pebble founder)
| illright wrote:
| Is the Round 2 also going to have screws to potentially replace
| the battery, like Time 2 does?
|
| Also, while watching the announcement video, I noticed that the
| pixels are quite a bit more visible on the Round 2 on the same
| watchface, when compared to Time 2 -- on the Time 2, the image
| is a lot more crisp. Is that a matter of adapting the
| watchfaces to the bigger screen?
| erohead wrote:
| > Screws
|
| Nope! No screws on this one.
|
| > Is that a matter of adapting the watchfaces to the bigger
| screen?
|
| Yes, exactly.
| illright wrote:
| Dang, I really liked that there were screws on the Time 2.
| Does that at least mean waterproofing will be better? :p
| For instance, would it be a good idea to swim with the
| Round 2 on?
| erohead wrote:
| Still doing our water resistance testing on Round 2, but
| that is the target (30m water resistance)!
| donkey_brains wrote:
| This is awesome, congrats Eric. Almost makes me wish I hadn't
| switched from Android -> iOS last year before the Pebble
| announcements started coming out. Any idea if we might see more
| compatibility with iOS in the near future as Apple is forced to
| open up the ecosystem a little due to EU regulations? I know
| they had to allow reading iMessages on 3rd party smartwatches
| recently which sounds promising for Pebble. Apologies if you
| already blogged about this and I missed it!
| rationalist wrote:
| It's not too late to switch back! I'm running GrapheneOS on a
| Pixel, but supposedly GrapheneOS is working with an OEM to
| have a GrapheneOS-native phone if you want to wait a little
| longer.
| erohead wrote:
| still works fine with iOS, will work even better in EU next
| year when Apple is forced to comply with the DMA.
| gen3 wrote:
| On the repebble compare chart the round is marked as having
| both a speaker and mic, that's incorrect right?
| rationalist wrote:
| I'm guessing he updated the chart? The chart at
| https://repebble.com/watch shows mic-only.
| michielr wrote:
| Haven't watched the video yet, but I don't see the vibrating
| motor/linear actuator mentioned. I'm assuming this is still
| included? I'll be switching my Pebble Time 2 order over, these
| look fantastic.
| rationalist wrote:
| The chart at https://repebble.com/watch shows it has a
| "Linear resonance actuator (vibrator)"
| alphager wrote:
| Is the situation with Rebble solved?
| bl4kers wrote:
| Rebble apologized, withdrew claims, and left the door open
| for future collaboration. They are
| restructuring/reorganizing.
|
| Core Devices pushed out modularity updates to be less
| dependent on Rebble's app store and started their own.
|
| That's the latest public information.
| Willamin wrote:
| Is a normal (non-rose) gold (or even a brass) color something
| we could look forward go in the future?
|
| Was the decision to not sell that color based on expected
| demand for the color or did it not work for some other reason?
| treffer wrote:
| I pre-ordered because I loved the Pebble Round - especially the
| size and look. My intended use case is for formal dress codes
| and special events (weddings, new years, ...) wheretny fennix
| 51mm does not fit in (literally and figuratively).
|
| That said: I can't find full dimensions for the new round 2. I
| can guesstimate that it should be 10-20% smaller in diameter
| and less than 2/3 the thickness.
|
| Would you mind sharing full dimensions or even update the post?
|
| And congratulations! I really like this. I hope there will be
| enough of a market to support this project long term.
| apparent wrote:
| Yes, the slimness and ability to dress up are certainly huge
| selling points. It does look about 1/4 thinner than the PT2,
| which is presumably much thinner/smaller than your fennix.
|
| Honestly, even with a PT2 on order, I would consider getting
| one of these for the occasions (1x/wk?) where I am wearing a
| dress shirt or otherwise want to look a little more dressed
| up. It honestly would probably also be a nice conversation
| starter because you can set it up with a traditional
| watchface, but then when you get a notification it would
| obviously not be a traditional watch. And it's so much
| thinner than Google/Samsung and other round smartwatches, it
| wouldn't be confused with those.
| illright wrote:
| You can see the dimensions in the full spec table on the
| preorder page
|
| https://repebble.com/watch
| 15155 wrote:
| What is the e-paper display part number / manufacturer?
| summermusic wrote:
| I had pre-ordered a Time 2, but I switched to the Round 2 because
| it's cheaper and I don't really care about the features it is
| missing (heart rate monitor and speaker) or the shape of the
| face. It's awesome that they let you switch without losing your
| place in line, very customer-focused of them.
| apparent wrote:
| I thought about it but didn't because the battery life
| difference is pretty big (10-14 vs 30), and according to his
| comment below, apparently the battery is not replaceable.
|
| I assume it would actually be replaceable if one were
| sufficiently motivated, but the fact that it's not meant to be
| replaceable is not so great.
|
| Honestly if the PT2 weren't replaceable I wouldn't mind so
| much, since starting of with 30 days of battery means it can
| degrade a lot before it hits a threshold I care about (1 week,
| roughly). But if the PR2 starts off around 10 days, it doesn't
| have far to fall before it hits that threshold.
|
| Perhaps the biggest reason I didn't swap my order, though, is
| that I don't want to wait several more months to get my Pebble!
| blacksmith_tb wrote:
| Yes, your calculus is exactly like mine - there are things to
| like about the Round (personally I just find round watches
| more aesthetically pleasing, we've had a couple hundred years
| of mostly round cases...), but I want longer battery and a
| shorter wait to get my watch.
| gumby271 wrote:
| Damn that's a nice looking watch! Really feels like they got to
| build what they wanted to 10 years ago but the tech wasn't there.
| Can't wait to build some sleek round watch faces once I get mine
| (unless there's an emulator already?)
| lawn wrote:
| It sure looks nice but I'm keeping my Time 2 order as it's got a
| much better battery life.
|
| Still, I'm sure this will appeal to many people.
| ilvez wrote:
| I'm also going for Time 2 because heartrate monitor. Round 2
| looks so nice, gratz on design! That Mario watchface is so fun on
| it.
| modeless wrote:
| I still consider the original Pebble Time Round to be the best
| smartwatch ever made, even 10 years on. Until now. This is
| everything I ever wanted in a watch. I can't wait to get mine! I
| may have to spend some time doing remakes of my favorite watch
| faces for the new screen resolution.
| ImPostingOnHN wrote:
| _> No more bezel_
|
| Maybe I'm looking at the wrong image, but I see a silver bezel
| going all around the watch screen.
|
| I thought "no bezel" on a screen means the screen goes all the
| way to the edges of the device.
|
| Still want one tho.
| apparent wrote:
| I think pretty much all watches have some sort of raised
| dial/edge in order to protect the glass. This one is not as
| small as some, but compared to the original round pebble, this
| is much, much smaller.
| hasperdi wrote:
| May the build quality and customer support be better this time
| around vs. last time.
| aprilnya wrote:
| For a while I've wanted a smartwatch that's not too smart, and is
| more focused on looks... I think this might be the watch I
| finally keep
| urbandw311er wrote:
| Anybody know how much the price goes up, typically, after the
| preorder phase?
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