On the day Pebble launched its new $249 Steel smartwatch, the company launched its new appstore and Pebble OS 2.0 in preview form, with a wider launch coming soon.
Pebble OS 2.0 coincides with app support, but brings a few new useful features as well, including a section dedicated to archived notifications, one of the areas that seriously lacked in the early versions of the software.
Indeed, Pebble 2.0 is about making the Pebble smartwatch, and brand, more attractive to a populace weened on one-touch app downloads. Alongside new Android and iOS apps (we only got to play with the iPhone version), which makes pairing a new or existing Pebble smartwatch much easier, the appstore is broken into two parts: a portal for apps and watchfaces. Readmore here
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