The religious sequel to the Pebble smartwatch is o...

Eric Migicovsky, the creator of Pebble who’s reviving the e-paper smartwatch with a brand new firm known as Core Units, shared that the primary new smartwatches are coming next month. The Core 2 Duo watch is on observe to ship to pre-order prospects in July and the pricier Core Time 2 remains to be on observe to launch this yr.

The $149 Core 2 Duo is “close to mass manufacturing” based on Migicovsky, and may land within the fingers of all pre-order prospects throughout July or August. In the event you pre-ordered, you can verify your order and transport particulars later in June. Migicovsky says he is additionally aiming to have “working engineering samples” of the $225 Core Time 2 “inside the subsequent month.”

Each the Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2 carry over the essential performance of Migicovsky’s authentic Pebble smartwatch, utilizing both black and white or colour e-paper shows, with well being monitoring, entry to notifications and the flexibility to make use of the again catalog of basic Pebble watch faces and apps. The foremost distinction between the 2 watches is that the Core Time 2 has a barely bigger display, a metallic body and a built-in coronary heart fee monitor.

Core Units can be opening up a beta program to check early watch {hardware} and its new Android and iOS companion app for syncing notifications and watch faces. You’ll be able to sign-up to hitch the beta take a look at via a Google Form and apparently, Migicovsky writes that the brand new app may even be appropriate with older Pebble {hardware} just like the Pebble Time Steel and Round or the Pebble 2.