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pebbles brand new Kickstarter backed SmartWatch has finally made it to my doorstep so it's josh of a guard from android authority what's going on everybody and it's time to unbox and do the initial setup for the brand new pebble time now quick disclaimer the unboxing is going to be very simple i've already taken off the small little area here to open it up but what I do like about this packaging since it is the Kickstarter version is that it has this on there so it's pretty nice that pebble even with the Kickstarter version not the retail version already has some some custom packaging here but once you open it up there it is very simply with the quick start guide right here some important safety information and the warranty for it and from there we have the actual pebble time itself now the pebble time has a bit of a design that's a little bit reminiscent of the ax Seuss Zen watch in my opinion in a Zen watch was one of my favorite designed Android wear watches but this is the one we have here now one issue that I do have is with the silicone band it's really flimsy not that it's going to break easily at any point of course but really it just kind of doesn't feel quite that sturdy not necessarily have a very high quality but we do have also the charging cable that is right here and it looks like it's just a little bit different from the previous ones from the original pebble and also the pebble steel that came after it so those are just the contents of the box itself and then we're going to go into the actual setup for the pebble time but before we turn it on and install the pebble time app on my android device we are going to take a look at just the design real quick you can already see in the reflection of the light there that there's quite the bezel around the actual display but we are going to be dealing with a color display which will be able to see in just a second the various little pins that are down here and if you have a replacement strap in my case i'd like to have wide replacement straps then it should work pretty well right here and i'll probably show that the end of this video look over to the back right here and you can see that the pebble is definitely this is the kickstarter backer version now it's possible that the version that makes it to retail stores might be a little bit different but at least for now we do have a clear indication that this is the one that I edged for on their kickstarter and then some pins up here for what might be and hopefully will be various smart straps that go on to the pebble otherwise we have the various buttons here on the side that are available for navigation in the middle selection and up and down to the men different menus and a back button right over here to go backwards in the navigation system alright so here we are with the brand new pebble time app now one thing you should know is the pebble time app is brand new compared to the original pebble so this is a brand new application you're going to install separately on to here and you can already see that there are some good reviews on it already go ahead and just open that up and it's going to get bring us through the initial setup so here we are I have double time I'm going to go into my pebble account our pairing process very similar to the original pebble just using bluetooth here to pair it to the phone and then all notifications will come from here and all different applications will come from the app as usual we go through the settings screen and we have to make sure that pebble time is available for notification access and we can choose a different watch face so these are all the different watch faces I've already seen a few of them already and the one that I've really enjoyed and I wanted to have one here is the Enigma there you go that's a wonderful looking watch face in my opinion alright and we're all set it's from here that we're going to find different apps that are available for the pebble time now all of the applications from the original pebble will work on the pebble time it's just that they have to be kind of reconfigure in order to work with this color display here you can really see that line of red in the middle of my enigma watch face so you can see I already have notifications kind of flowing through something from slickdeals right here and Instagram and you can see this is a nice display with some color in it which looks even better from before which I really enjoy click on here on the side and we can either mute slickdeals on the pebble time open on the phone so will open automatically or just dismiss I'll go and just dismiss that one if you do the same with the Instagram one and there you have it just some nice transitions in and out of the different elements and if I go down here there's sunset we're going into tomorrow i have a few tasks available a lot of things that i have to get done now if you're the kind of person that calendars a lot then the pebble time forward and backward is really going to be useful and i may not be the most heavy calendar user but this is going to be really nice to have so i've gone ahead and set up a few applications for use with my pebble time as may be expected already some of the applications that were available for the original pebble may not be fully updated for the pebble time to take advantage for example of the color screen for example nav me is one of them you can see it's still black and white but that's not that big of a deal or still remains functional which is the biggest and most important thing but if we go over to music bus and you can see my s6 active back there ready to play some music I've set a music bus and it already has some really nice features on it like the ability to just slide out the different controls on the side and you can already see it updating the album art now if I were to hold here and go back one more time and you can see I'm changing the music already do one more and head over to this particular song it will slowly change the album art and you're actually able to see it there which i think is a great feature so that's one of the examples of that that the color screen actually provides even more functionality and some better aesthetic for a number of applications that music boss is one of them I'm a fan of the pebble ecosystem so naturally I'm pretty excited to use the pebble time and bring you my full review in the next number of days or so it's not that Android wear is really behind or worse than pebble by any means I just sort of like the way that pebble presents its smartwatches especially with the tactile buttons that are on the actual unit it's a little bit easier for me to navigate among the different elements of the OS without having to really look at the watch in certain situations if I remember how many presses it takes to get to an application it's easy for me to just go in and control it but the original pebble as you can see in the shot right here I did cater to my personal style with a Richard Tracy brand leather strap now I did think that with the grooves on the bottom and on the top of this time that that strap would work pretty well on here and you can see me trying to put it on here and unfortunately it just ended up looking kind of weird so I might need to be on the lookout for another watch strap still luckily Richard Tracy brand is doing another Kickstarter for a wide bands made specifically for the pebble term that's made of silicone so I'll probably going to end up changing the look of this with one of those as far as initial setup goes it looks pretty nice the animations do keep things from being completely fast the way that they were in the original pebble but they do make it look a lot nicer which I'll say that much if you're dismissing a notification for example has to do that little animation rather than just saying dismissed and going straight back into your operating system which is a little bit more of a pet peeve of mine rather than an actual problem and going through the different applications is not that difficult at all unfortunately with a higher amount of storage on here you do have to scroll to the quiet a bit and press those buttons a lot which might be a little bit of a nuisance but we're going to find out if that truly is in my full review so i hope you enjoyed this particular unboxing and initial setup of the pebble time it's going to be on my wrist for the foreseeable future and i will bring you my full review very soon so make sure you stay tuned to android authority for that to draw us some likes especially on this video because we'd love to see those thumbs up and subscribe to our channel if you haven't already and once you're done with all of that don't forget to listen to the fdp and when you're done with all of that make sure you head on over to android authority calm and sound off in our forums because we are your source for all things android