And third, the Pebble Round 2 is one of the thinnest smartwatches on the market. The watch is just 8.1 millimeters thick. Because the Pebble forgoes a heart rate sensor, the back is flat rather than curved, so unlike most smartwatches, you don’t need to account for a bump that manufacturers often omit from the dimensions. As the 11.6-millimeter-thick Garmin Forerunner 165 ($196 at Amazon) shows, those few millimeters make a noticeable difference on the wrist.
According to Nick Lum, the Pebble Round 2 has an average battery life of just under ten days – the advertised 14 days is only possible if certain features, such as the touchscreen, are disabled. The reviewer mainly criticizes the fact that one of the four buttons does not always respond correctly to inputs, even a replacement smartwatch suffers from the same problem. More detailed reviews are likely to be posted before shipping begins in the coming weeks.
