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what's up everyone John written from TechnoBuffalo here when the kickstart backed pebble smartwatch first launched it was essentially just a notification machine let you know when phone calls are coming in emails sort of other person notifications that your phone showed you but the pebble smartwatch has grown up it got a Big Brother in the form of the pebble steel and now has it's a very own App Store let's take a first look and see how it performs the pebble steel is officially shipping today but functionally wise it's exactly the same as the original pebble smartwatch you just get a more sort of upscale look to it so with the new OS the developer access we can now finally get access to all those delicious things that the pebble smartwatch had all along things like accelerometer and sort of other meters I can turn it into almost a fitness band so let's take a first look at some of the stuff we can do so first you're going to have a brand new pebble app it's the pebble dev app which lets you sort of get full control over your phone it looks different now let me go ahead and go into the main screen here it looks like so you go ahead and hit that button you can go access to my pebble get watch faces or get apps let's jump in to get apps that's actually the big thing here so you got now sort of an orange hue and it's divided into six sections so you've got daily tools and utilities notifications fitness and games they all have different apps inside of those so obviously the hope here is that developers will make their own pebble apps I'll show you just a quick example of what they look like let's go ahead and jump into daily for example you can see what it looks like those ahead opens up it's its own app store and capsulated inside of this application you can find what you like whenever you find that you want to go ahead and hit add and it's going to show up on your watch assuming you have room so go ahead and hit this will go to my pebble and you now have what's called a pebble Locker and it can store eight apps here and if you have more than eight app it's not a problem it'll be right here down below if you want to add them back to your device you go and tap it you can load it on or just delete it completely so only enough memory to store a tap so what do apps look like and what do apps do so let me go ahead and show you I've got one right here called pebble carts let me go ahead and open that here on the settings you can see what the settings look like for an app so it's gonna get open it up you can control all content vacations here so I've got for example I want to set on night something's a screen look dark you can have it be day and it'll be lighter you can do weather different stock options sports teams you can pick driving times you can pick transit sports teams battery RSS stocks and all kinds of other options so let it select it and just hit save so see it looks like here I can scroll through so for example there we've got watch battery I've got the next Laker game coming up here I can see some stocks I've got so there's tests like I can see Apple weather will show up here's well I just sort of keep scrolling through and have a ton of different options that'll show up it looks really neat you don't access me the same way you would watch faces unfortunately so in order to access these you got to go and hit the menu button here so go and open a batch drawer it takes advantage the excel around where you can sort of old-school asteroids game you get as blast the asteroids and use a button so that's sort of what games look like on here it gives you a vibrate notification when you lose all kinds of really cool things here the UI though again is still pretty similar but you access things a little bit differently so if you go ahead and go to you know watch races ordinarily you go ahead and pick your watch face and you can just scroll through all of them but the watch face is now are not the same as app so you can't scroll through when you're on to get a watch face like you could on an app so I'll go ahead and go back so here's a watch face I can scroll through and see other want races but no way and I go through this am I going to see any of the apps like that card app for example so a bit unfortunate there I would have liked to have seen that but you now get access to a ton more watch faces and a whole bunch more on the app front this is gonna be shipping with the new pebble steel it's a ton more functionality rich I want to give you guys a quick overview of what it looked like with the new app it looks like and sort of the fun things you can expect with pebble be able to check in on Foursquare there's an ESPN home screen all kinds of other sort of cool stuff hopefully coming presumably we'll see Facebook and other social media integration here Twitter and such I'm pretty excited it's a really nice addition to the pebble smartwatch you decide if you want the less expensive the more expensive option they're really getting at the same functionality just different aesthetics on both it's a nice addition to those folks that backed the watch I really like that sort of didn't make these features only for the pebble steel they sort of rewarded the folks that backed it originally an initial supporters I sort of give it all the awesome things that the new OS has to offer so what you guys think is it gonna be enough to make you pick up a new pebble smartwatch or let me look to pick up a pebble steel love to hear your thoughts do that in the comments right down below sure check us out at TechnoBuffalo com until next time I'm John R Ettinger see you nice video buh-bye what's up everyone john here thank you for watching the video if you enjoyed it I certainly hope you did click on the subscribe button right under me and my pants region to get tons more tech videos from TechnoBuffalo we've got awesome unboxings comparisons reviews recaps and everything else you can think of in the tech 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