Smart watches Pebble Time became the most successful Kickstarter project in its history

Nine hours Pebble Time entered the top five most cash projects Kickstarter. For a month the project has acquired

 the status of the most successful in the history of kraudfandingovogo service, raised more than $ 20 million.

Yes, not the most technically perfect, is not the most functional, not the toughest in terms of design smart watches, losing to these parameters based solutions Android Wear and future Apple Watch, were much more in demand. At least at the stage of collecting funds within kraudfandingovoy campaign on Kickstarter. It was closed on 28 March, the result of $ 20,338,986, which have invested nearly 78.5 thousand. Enthusiast.

What was the reason for the success? With such a course could be called two: multi-platform (supported by iOS and Android) and autonomy (7-10 days depending on the model). Among the new products on the choice of plastic model Pebble Time and steel Pebble Time Steel. Last addition to housing prices is different and more 10-day autonomy. Sales of devices will begin in May this year and will cost $ 199 in wishing and $ 299, respectively. Remain available and previous models, Pebble and Pebble Steel, which cost $ 99 and $ 199.

These are the only smart watch that can fully replace conventional clock, because the screen works for them all the time, and at any moment you can look at it and find out the current time. In other decisions, the screen lights up when you hold the device to the eyes, but not always, this function works well. In addition, Sharp Memory LCD display remains perfectly legible even in bright sunlight, and consumes very little power, which is not based on analogues of traditional LCD or OLED-matrices. Functionally the same Pebble have the required minimum capabilities that will last 90% of users: the withdrawal of the notification, counting steps and even tracking the quality of sleep, plus smart alarm clock (implemented using a third party application Morpheuz).

At least, I personally going with Moto 360 Pebble (the most simple plastic, first generation), some do not feel pain. Watch just work and all.

In the new updates also used, in theory, more convenient operating system (analogous to promise to implement in the old models Pebble), color display and a microphone, so you can quickly answer the call with a watch, without taking your smartphone out of your pocket.

Finally it is worth noting that even the original smart watch Pebble still among the three most successful in the history of Kickstarter projects. Pebble Time also put another interesting record - raised $ 1 million in just 49 minutes after the start of the campaign. Pebble itself currently consists of more than 100 employees and has a $ 26 million third-party investment. By the way, Kickstarter company is always more considered as a kind of advertising platform than a source of investment.

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