Gadgetory

hi I'm Scott Stein and this is the Pebble watch yes the original Pebble watch now a lot of smartwatches have come and gone you've seen the Samsung Galaxy gear the Qualcomm talk so many other weird and semi half-baked smartwatches and then there's the original 149 Pebble watch which is still available on sale why am I talking about it again because there is a brand new pebble app store that launched that enables access to all of the various apps that were hard to find otherwise watch faces and new types of funky apps ones like Yelp Foursquare ESPN new types of weather apps ways of controlling smart home things like nest or the philips hue lighting system gopro cameras the list goes on and on and on and these can be loaded onto the original pebble with a new software update now there's also the pebble steel which I'm wearing here which is pebbles new watch but the 2 $49 new watch really underneath is the same watch as the original pebble so what you're paying $100 for here is the metal and glass which is admittedly pretty fantastic or you go with the original plastic design here which kind of feels like the swatch of smartwatches it's it's comfortable it's also still waterproof has the backlighting they both have a limit of 8 apps being loaded on to them same black and white screen so to some people you say hey I saved $100 that's a great deal others will look at this and think hmmm maybe it looks a little cheaper I'd rather go with a nicer fancier watch design and that's the decision you're gonna have to make know that both of these have similar battery life similar performance and connect with the same number of iOS and Android devices and use that app store in the same way so they're interchangeable and that's the good news makes it a little bit of a no-brainer deciding now you decide to figure out do you want a pebble what does the pebble do again well before it acted as a kind of a pager on your wrist so you could get notifications now that's been made even better between iOS and Android so for Twitter Facebook SMS incoming phone calls you name it if it appears on the front page your phone then it can pop up on this screen and I think that's what it does best now there are also a number of interactive apps the new version of pebbles software 2.0 enabled apps and do a whole bunch of new interactive stuff play better games interact with things like Yelp where you can read reviews and also ping to get your location use the internal accelerometer and gyroscope to shake to do various things but all this is still in evolution and the more you play with those apps the more you may think wait a second why am I not just using my phone so I think the pinging notifications for me are still the best reason keep in mind that the pebble and pebble steel do not have touch screens they don't have color screens and they don't have any microphone or speakers on them or any cameras needless to say so they may feel a little down tech compared to some of the watches like the Samsung Galaxy gear but the total package of what this offers and the fact that it's waterproof makes it the best SmartWatch that's out there even now although it is really more like a polished version of what we expected the first time so the Pebble watch still around also has interchangeable wristbands but I think I would still prefer the pebble steel really it's a matter of aesthetics thankfully I'm Scott Stein and that's a look again at the Pebble watch one more time with an app store