“I actually do hope another person makes one so I don’t need to 
,” writes Migicovsky.
I’m now one in every of a contingent of Samsung Galaxy Z Flip house owners who’s critically contemplating buying and selling in my Flip for a Galaxy S25. It’s not small, however it’s the closest factor we’ve received and my Flip’s battery doesn’t remotely final till bedtime anymore. I ask Migicovsky whether or not I can safely improve with out feeling I would miss out on a attainable Small Android Cellphone by, say, mid-2026. He says I can, with out commenting on my proposed timeline.
At one level the telephone venture was focusing on a 2024 launch date and had gotten so far as creating a complete model, Beep, to promote it with, based on the portfolio of Small Android Cellphone Undertaking industrial designer Alex De Stasio. He’d even dreamt up a billboard:
Please don’t get your hopes up that the brand new watch could have X/Y/Z new function. It’s going to be a Pebble and nearly precisely as you keep in mind it, besides now with open supply software program that may you may modify and enhance your self. Extra {hardware} particulars can be shared sooner or later.
For the uninitiated, the unique Pebbles have been low-power units whose finest options have been lifeless simplicity and battery life — no touchscreen, no digital crown, only a few buttons that can assist you learn notifications and run a catalog of charming fundamental apps. That’s nice with me so long as the buttons are good!
Just a few different issues he’s confirmed in regards to the new Pebble to this point:
He informed Android Trustworthy there are two software program options he’d like so as to add. His “large factor” is to sometime have a chat shopper, one that might handle a limitation of early Pebbles by letting you see a complete dialog historical past in your wrist. The opposite is a fundamental AI handoff: “Pebble has a microphone, it has a display screen… why can’t you discuss to ChatGPT?”
Migicovsky needs to be in Shenzhen this week to satisfy with suppliers and factories for the brand new smartwatch.
