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Pebble Updates Watches with Heart Rate Monitors

May 24, 2016 By Dan Rosenbaum

Pebble Time 2Pebble, the smartwatch pioneer, today announced big updates to its basic model and its more deluxe Time product. Both get design updates — the Pebble 2 is thinner and the Time 2 gets a bigger and higher-res color screen — but the big change is the addition of a heart rate monitor.

Even given Pebble’s roots as a notification device, the addition of the heart rate functionality is not a huge surprise. Those sensors, and the software that drives them accurately, have become cheap to the point of commoditization.

The Pebble 2 and the Time 2 are being sold initially through Kickstarter for $99 and $169 respectively, with availability in September for the Pebble 2 and November for the Time 2.

The company also announced a key-chain-fob sized device called the Core. Designed for runners, the Core can take a microSIM and stream Spotify, as well as track a run with GPS and send an SOS message via SMS. A open-source hacker’s version is also available. Both cost $69, with availability in January.

Last updated by Dan Rosenbaum on February 1, 2017.

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