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The Pebble Has Been Brought Back (store.repebble.com)
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Google recently open sourced Pebble and today, Repebble has put some of the watches up for preorder.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It says they're able to extend the battery life from 7 days to a month due to how efficient the new Bluetooth chips are.

You must have skimmed pretty fast.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I did indeed skim pretty fast, but it doesn't say that, it just says from 7 days to 30:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

[...] Battery life: I’m really excited that battery life will be increased from 7 days to 1 month! This is due to massive improvements in Bluetooth chip power efficiency over the last 10 years. [...]

Source: https://ericmigi.com/blog/introducing-two-new-pebbleos-watches

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Battery life: I’m really excited that battery life will be increased from 7 days to 1 month! This is due to massive improvements in Bluetooth chip power efficiency over the last 10 years.

It's further down the page.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

It's damn near the very bottom lol, so I forgive myself for missing that. When I skim something for a product, I'm looking at the tech specs/BLUF message, not digging thru the entire page of text. Anyway, glad it's all sorted out.