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hey I'm glad would average we're here at CES 2014 in Las Vegas and we're taking a look at the second generation pebble smartwatch this is called the pebble steel and it's made out of stainless steel it has two versions one has a genuine leather strap the other has stainless steel strap actually both straps come in the box the choices that you have between a matte black version and a brush stainless version the price for this will be two forty nine dollars it's a hundred dollars more expensive than the original double smartwatch but you do get a few upgrades to justify that first is obviously the construction also you have a much reduced size in terms of lug to lug distance so in terms of height of the watch it's quite a bit more stylish they've employed a few of the design techniques that you see with more classical watches it doesn't look quite as aggressively modern as the original pebble he doesn't look as sporty as that device uses grill glass corning gorilla glass on the front it is still waterproof as before is the same screen size same display technology public has actually made a big point of keeping the device platform the same as with the original device in order to avoid fragmentation for app developers now the big appeal with this side for being a watch obviously is the app framework and the things that you can do with it so for example the pandora app over here it can control the music on your iPhone so you can start playback like so and if you hold the button down you can change through different radios another example is the foursquare app you can come to this app and actually check in directly from the watch you know how to take the phone out of your pocket pebble makes a big point out of helping app developers developed specifically for the pebble photo watch it now has a new JavaScript API would a new OS two point O version of the software which makes it easier for app developers to make apps just for the watch and make it a bit more agnostic whether you have an iphone I have an Android device the second version of the OS is noticeably faster that's the first thing we notice we picked up the new watch noticeably faster than the original but in terms of comparing the two devices the look in the field the new one definitely feels higher-end more premium feels quite good on the rest the reduced size is noticeable terms of weight they don't seem to be any different terms of thickness the new one is a little bit thinner than the old one of the few design compromises that I would have had to make is they've had to change to a new power connector here on the side the original one was actually designed specifically for the design of that Smart Watch so they couldn't really deploy it on the new watch so in summary the new pebble steel is a massive upgrade on the hardware side of things it brings this SmartWatch into a whole new class brings it to a new audience who might not have considered smart watching the past but what the company says is that it's committed to iterating and improving particularly in the app side of things with both the 149 original pebble and the 249 pebble steel so really the future is all about developing the software while today is about showing off the brand new hardware the new pebble steel will be laid up with 249 on january 28 you