The Pebble smart watch has received an official update to its iOS app, bringing proper push notifications for emails and fixing compatibility for AOL and iCloud email accounts. Official support for email notifications had been introduced earlier this month, but with access limited to fetching on 15-minute intervals.
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The app officially launched alongside the smart watch in January, with the device originally gaining notice for raising over $10 million in funding on Kickstarter. Access to the SDK for the device was given to developers in April.
Apple has been highly rumored to be working on a smart watch of its own to potentially launch next year, with a number of other major technology companies also working on their own projects.
Pebble's iOS app can be downloaded from the App Store for free. [Direct Link]
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(View all)Don't get the Pebble at all.
You're wrong. I own a Pebble. The phone pictured in your post is nothing like it. The phone actually worked as advertised...It looks like the watch equivalent of this:
Image (http://www.sillyjokes.co.uk/images/wacky/props/phone-brick.jpg)
Pebble isn't a "smartwatch." It's a dumb terminal slaved to a smartphone.
Big difference.
Can a regular watch link to your phone and preview messages and the like? no.
Hence the "smart watch" name.
May not be useful for you, but I really like it.
Don't get the Pebble at all.
It looks like the watch equivalent of this:
Image (http://www.sillyjokes.co.uk/images/wacky/props/phone-brick.jpg)
Gotta start somewhere. The first cellphone wasn't an iPhone after all...
By the way, I get tons of compliments from men and women just on the looks. They freak when they see it interacts with my phone. To each his/her own but I'm a happy backer.
It looks like the watch equivalent of this: