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Google recently open sourced Pebble and today, Repebble has put some of the watches up for preorder.

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[–] rhymepurple@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I understand that the watch operating system is open source. However, it seems that the watch will connect to a companion smartphone app. Do you know if the app is a requirement and/or if the app will be open source?

[–] calamityjanitor@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

One thing about the Pebble - and, I assume, these watches - is that they didn't have WiFi or LTE, only Bluetooth. So it wasn't possible for them to do any communication except through the apps already running on your phone. So, broadly, it's a no.

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