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Pebble has announced a reboot of its classic round smartwatch, the Pebble Round 2, featuring a larger 1.3-inch touchscreen, longer battery life of up to two weeks, and new speech input capabilities, available for preorder at $199 with shipping in May.
Eric Migicovsky, co-founder of chat aggregation app Beeper, has launched a new project called Beepberry, a portable e-paper computer designed for chatting on Beeper. It features a BlackBerry Classic physical keyboard and a 400 x 240 Sharp memory e-paper-esque LCD powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero. The device is available for pre-order at $79, with only 50 available at launch. The kits without the board are expected to ship in August, while the others will arrive the following month.
Eric Migicovsky, the founder of Pebble smartwatch, has developed a messaging device called the Beepberry, which is up for pre-order for $99 or $79 without a Raspberry Pi Zero W. The device features a mini-touchpad, a Sharp Memory LCD 400 x 240 screen, and a backlit BlackBerry Classic keyboard. It is meant to be used with the all-in-one chat service Beeper and is essentially a dumb phone that allows texting and nothing more. Migicovsky says that the current form is not the finished product and is just a devkit.
Beepberry is a new device that grafts the keyboard of a Blackberry Classic onto a pocketable custom board designed to fit a Raspberry Pi Zero W, all paired with a 400 x 240 “Memory LCD” screen. It is designed by Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble smartwatch and co-founder of Beeper. The device is designed to run Beeper without any other online distractions, but it can also be used as a portable “e-paper” computer for hackers. The Beepberry lacks any hardware for cellular data connectivity, so it’s not quite a self-contained beeper in the traditional sense.
Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky is leading a community project called Small Android Phone, which aims to create a sub-six-inch compact smartphone with a premium feel, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 or mid-level Qualcomm chip, and a 50MP main sensor. The team is interested in a metal frame with a layer of glass composite or ceramic-coated aluminum frame. The phone is expected to cost around $850 and may be crowdfunded for $40 to $50 million.
Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble, is leading a community-based project to create a small Android phone that can compete with the iPhone Mini. The team is currently sourcing a display, choosing a chip, and picking a body design. The phone could feature a metal frame covered in glass composite, ceramic-coated aluminum, forged carbon, bio-resin, or ceramic composites. The team is accepting signups on its website for those interested in supporting the project.
A team of former Pebble employees is working on a small Android phone project called "Marvin" that aims to fill the gap left by Apple's discontinuation of small phones. The team is considering a metal frame covered in glass composite or ceramic-coated aluminum for the phone's body, and is looking at two potential chipsets, the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 and a yet-to-be-released mid-tier Qualcomm chip. The team is hoping to provide at least two years of software updates and is considering a crowdfunding campaign to raise $40 to $50 million to cover engineering, manufacturing, shipping, operations, support, and all the other costs that come with shipping a consumer product.