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pebble steel the new SmartWatch we saw revealed at CES just arrived what do you say let's get this thing out of the box I'm Taylor Martin this is PocketNow and this is the pebble steel unboxing today we're looking at pebble steel this is the upgrade to the original pebble which launched in spring of last year and this was announced at CES just last month a lot of people were upset with the actual upgrades in this because they're very far and few between internally there's only double the storage the rest is purely external so it has all the same specifications the same display and everything as the original and a lot of people were upset about that but let's get inside the box and see what it comes with and what everything looks like of course it's still in the cellophane wrapping we're gonna need to rip that off and move that to the side it looks like the the Box took a little beating in the transit but let's hope everything's intact inside yeah it's been jostled around a little bit so the box opens up very easily and inside we've got this nice white felt like material with all the stuff inside so get started at go to Volcom and it's really nice it's actually like a jewelry box more than me more than anything else so we have a quick start guide here some important product information just your standard pamphlets and inside this is the steel band so this is the brushed steel there's also a PVD which is black and it's not unlike the PVD watch tab that I have on my old pebble so we'll get to take a look at that in a minute and if we open this bottom flap down here the bottom you have the new charging cable and we'll get to that in a minute as well leave that out of the box and of course the pebble steel and that's everything inside the box we'll move that out of the way if you can pop this off and this is pebble steel as you can see immediately it looks a lot more high-end and classy than the original which was made entirely of plastic and came with a silicone watch strap so for 150 dollars a lot of people had problems with that this one no matter which color you buy comes with two watched straps leather one and a either steel or PVD watch strap PVD coated they're both steel keep saying that but yes they're both steel one is black like a matte black and this one is a brushed steel so no matter which color you buy which face color you buy it comes with to watch straps so that's nice and we can take a look at this one we'll take it out of the wrapper really quickly take a look at it and look at the clasp because I really like the class I was looking at this at CES it's just a button which is really really nice a button that you push on the side and it just comes open so that's the the steel watch strap and we'll we'll take it closer to look at that in the review in the comparisons also let's put this thing on a risk why not right if it'll fit I have I've generally can what it would are considered to be large wrists so yeah it fits with we've actually ruled a spare that's nice the ad fits I won't leave it on there because it's hard to get the angle but that's what it looks like on your wrist and actually like this what this leather strap I didn't think I would if I chose one I would have chosen the PVD because that's just my style I'm not big on silk let's get it off here and actually take a look at the boot process we'll take this off it's not gonna make any noise hello pebble and it says press and hold it actually had instructions on their present hold any button so it's like the original well that boots up we're actually going to do a little quick size comparison with the original so you can see that the actual length of the faceplate is much much smaller and and that's a that's a very good thing for people with small wrists really doesn't matter much for me because I do have giant wrists you'll also notice we'll bring it in close here that they've changed the charging port so the original one was longer and this one is different so if you had the original it's not gonna work with the new pebble it is still magnetic but it's a different connection so this one will not work on the old pebble unfortunate we don't want to get too deep into the weeds with that this is the original pebble we're gonna compare these two later on this week so stay tuned for that for now we'll talk a little bit more about this one before we go this one like I said it has a little middle pillar here between the two outside of the pin and the downside of that is that you can't use just any 22 centimeter watch strap but the design is actually open sourced so we might see some third-party manufacturers making watch straps for pebble steel which would be very nice but one of the major updates here is Gorilla Glass so it's no longer plastic this is actually Gorilla Glass so it hopefully hopefully it'll keep from shattering but hopefully it'll help stave some of those nasty nasty scratches mine get just destroyed after just a couple weeks but uh that's gonna do it for now this is the unboxing of pebble steel stay tuned for the full review which should be live sometime next week and as well as a comparison with the original pebble steel I'm Taylor Martin and I will see you next time