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there's a new SmartWatch out the pebble time what do you need to know about it well the previous pebble was my favorite SmartWatch it was a lot of people's favorite smartwatches because it had the best battery life almost seven days it could be worn while so you can get your basic information and it looked cool it was a fun retro look didn't cost too much and a work with Android and iOS now pebble is back in the big differences there that has a color reflective screen that's always on has the same promise seven day battery life and it's got a microphone if you're an Android user iOS you can use it a little bit in the future plus it's got the promise of smart straps the charge port in the back can connect potentially in the future to sensor studded straps that aren't here yet so it's hard to judge what I'm going to look at is this has a color SmartWatch how does it compare to the competition well it's not as fancy as an Apple watch or Android wear it doesn't have a touchscreen you have to use buttons on the side and it doesn't really interact all that much with its apps but there are a lot of apps out there there are our fitness apps there are games there are quirky watch faces with all sorts of weird characters in them and all the previous pebble apps can load onto this this has more storage than previous pebble watches you can put dozens of watch faces and apps onto this as opposed to just eight before the battery life maybe I got a little more like four days as opposed to seven but the software is early on this review model so that may change I like the look it's kind of cutesy kids II type of look but it does have a stainless steel bezel and a gorilla glass display that's better than the original pebble which had a very scratch prone plastic surface the pebble still though kind of cut a little more of a mature look there is going to be a steel version of this coming for $100 more in the summer maybe you want to wait for that and it has a little more battery life - I like the pebble time I'm not absolutely head-over-heels in love with it but I spent less time looking at it and dealing with it than I did with some of the fancier smartwatches and if you want a watch that's going to get basic notifications Buzz you when you need to that you can sleep with and that can give you silent alarms and looks fun and you can play around with maybe the pebble time is for you I like wearing one again I'm Scott Stein at sea night and this is the pebble time