I know this isn’t Android per se. But Google has now opened up Pebble OS. And it seems like there will be a pebble revival. I just want a pebble time round 2.

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      That blog post explicitly said he didn’t want to make it himself!

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      Nowhere in that blog post does he announce he’s making it.

      He just asks for interest so that he can explore whether it’s feasible to attempt manufacturing of it. He explicitly states there that he’d need a lot of help to even attempt to make it a reality.

      Very different from claiming he is making it and that it’s a real product.

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      I was hoping so bad that it would come but it never came… we need a proper open source smartphone but there is so many variables in it sadly. Though with the recent developments in mobile linux and using a translation layer for android apps maybe something is possible. The problem is something being open source isnt enough to penetrate the tech space, it has to be better than the alternatives, which with phones means it has to either be ridiculously powerfull or extremely cheap, which are both hard to achive in such a saturated space. Even linux is only popular because it is actually better than the alternatives.