Pebble Alert | Another delay for the e-ink smartwatch

Bad news for those waiting, or even worse for those who have already ordered one smartwatch Pebble Alert, an interesting project born on Kickstarter based on the idea of different smartwatch and minimal. The bad news is a delay, another to tell the truth, which goes to follow that of September and now will slip distribution to a period after Christmas 2012. An email sent by the Pebble team to supporters and donors assures that the product is “coming soon”, but without any indication of an arrival date which will be in 2013. The delay seems to be due to problems in the construction process that affects the entire first batch of watches which amounts to 85 thousand units.

Pebble Alert smartwatch

Pebble Alert smartwatch

Not just a reminder

Not just a reminder

Pebble Alert is a smartwatch that differs from others by the use of an e-ink screen which is 1.26″ and 144×168 pixels. The same technology that is placed in the e-readers and is very convenient and has a good outdoor readability without backlight. As usual, there are the typical smart functions that go to flank the modern smartphone with Android and iOS, with which it communicates via Bluetooth to provide information and notifications of messaging, calls, SMS and so on.

Pebble Alert

Pebble Alert

Pebble Alert colors

Pebble Alert colors

If you want to give a smartwatch as a prsent for this end of 2012 take a look at Sony SmartWatch, I’m Watch, or even for sporting the Nike GPS SmartWatch or a more minimal (and cheaper) the FuelBand.