Pebble Time Round is the world’s thinnest and lightest smartwatch

Beyond the physical changes, the Pebble Time Round isn’t diverging greatly from the existing Pebble Time lineup. Pebble has an announcement to make, but it’s not yelling it from the rooftops just yet. As with the Pebble Time and Pebble Time Steel, the Round uses an e-paper color display that sacrifices brightness, vividness, and resolution for long battery life, readability in sunlight, and the ability to stay on rather than shutting off to conserve power.

According to Ubergizmo’s sources, the new device will be Pebble’s first round watch.

That said, the Time Round still works with Pebble’s massive library of apps including those from ESPN, The Weather Channel, Uber, and others.

As for color options, both models will be available in black and silver, and there will also be a special rose gold model that’ll be 14mm-only.

In terms of technology, the Pebble Time Round is similar to its predecessors, with an always-on display that’s easy to read in sunlight (but requires backlighting to read in the dark).

But that thinness comes at a cost. The Pebble Time Round only gets up to two days of battery life.

When your Pebble Time Round ships, we will automatically discount the order by $50. “So we thought, okay, how does it work in your daily routine”. “So you have something like the weather report, instead of the developer hard-coding in exactly how and where the screen will show information, we’ve made it kind of a separation between the data and the display”.

If there’s any concession, the smartwatch can suck up enough charge to last 24 hours in just 15 minutes.

The Round has a battery life of about two days, far less than its square brothers, which can go seven to 10 days without charging.

The new Pebble Time Round is really thin.

One of the other updates that Pebble brings with the Time OS is loads of friendly animated transitions. An Apple Watch or Android Wear smartwatch, in comparison, typically needs to be recharged every night.

Pebble Time and Pebble Time Steel both launched earlier this year to mixed reviews, and now the company behind two of the most-funded Kickstarter projects ever is at it again. It does seem as though the Time Round may disappoint in the one area previous Pebbles left Apple’s Watch in the dust.

The company has sold more than 1 million smartwatches in the past two years.

As you might imagine, Pebble already has a slew of different round watch face designs ready to deploy.

The company says the new watch will start at $249 (£163) and launch in the United Kingdom and Europe at some point in 2016.