The all-in-one utility application for Pebble and BlackBerry 10, Smart Watch Companion, also known as SWC, released an update that not only offered a few bug fixes and UI tweaks but also a brand new watch face to go with it.
Available to download from within the application, BlackBerry users can install using Talk2Watch Pro. The watch face fetches the following information from Smart Watch Companion to be more convenient.
- Retrieve SWC weather from the Pebble - graphics update on watch app
- Retrieve SWC Stock Quote from the Pebble
- Retrieve CrackBerry, BBC, and Custom RSS news from the Pebble
- Retrieve Google Authenticator codes from the Pebble
- Retrieve LastPass Authenticator codes from the Pebble
- Set Marker for 'where's my car functionality'
For those of you not familiar with SWC, the full list of available features are shown below.
Features
- Headless
- NFC Tag activation of features
- Minecraft administration features (requires a Minecraft server with the MCJSONAPI Mod)
- French and German Localisation
- Customised Location Markers
- GeoLocational Reminders
- Custom LED colours
- Custom Alarm sounds
- 3 and & Day Weather Forecasts
- Current Weather Report
- London Underground Tube Line Alerts
- RSS News information
- Multiple provider Authenticator codes
- Bitcoin/Litecoin Quotes
- Multiple Stock Quotes
- Precise location fix information as Address or GPS
- Rich BlackBerry® Social Interaction Features
Smart Watch companion is compatible with BlackBerry 10 and is $2.99 to purchase. Please note that it does require the installation of Talk2Watch Pro in order for certain features to work properly.
If you are not seeing the update, it may be taking a bit to populate all areas of BlackBerry World, but should be showing for most folks.
Reader comments
Do more from your watch with the official SWC Pebble watch face
I know it's an odd question, but: Where could one purchase that wrist strap? I've always disliked the generic feeling plastic strap, but the one pictured looks more my style.
Posted Via My BlackBerry Q10
Go startrek!!
Posted via R115-Aramis.
BlackBerry, just make your own watch :0 I don't want pebble but I do want a smart watch, made by blackberry so I know it's unhackable and high quality (Make a low end and high end)
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Yes!
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Not that is what I agree with. Good comment
I just want a watch with bluetooth gps and a internal hdd so I can jog without my phone
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Aka a Garmin watch minus the hdd
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All the pictures of these smartwatches I ever see are close ups. Like how many people actually look at their watches from two feet away? Those iWatch commercials are especially guilty in this regard. I guess whatever information is actually displayed is pretty small and hard to see if you look at it normally. All these watches don't seem very practical or convenient to look at. And who in their right mind wants to spend hundreds of dollars on a watch that you have to plug in all the time? Now that I think of it, millions of people once bought pet rocks and cans of air! Says a lot about a lot of consumers out there.
Sorry, but I had to rant.
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You don't need to plug in Pebble smartwatches all the time as they are designed to last for a whole week between charges.
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I want a colour. Smart watch that has some of the fitness monitoring apps on it. Pulse, gps with a start and finish option so I can tell it to record that I'm going for a walk. Sleep patterns, step counter etc.
As well as the other features.
I'm on compo after injuring myself at work and I'm supposed to go for a regular walk and other stuff, and having a feature that records it will help prove I'm doing what I'm supposed for do.
Posted via CB10 on my BlackBerry Z10
People stopped wearing watches because they had cell phones. Now people are expected to wear watches again in connection with their cell phones? Don't see this happening.
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That's what happened to me since Nokia 7110...
Not going backwards for a fad. :-D
• Passposted while waiting for the Z-lider.... •
No problem with anyone who wants to get one, though. Go for it... :-)
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I'm not into fads myself, but being on compo the watches with the exercise, pulse etc monitoring is a good thing, especially for the days I work.
At work I take regular walks and use an exercise app to log my walks with distance, gps and time so I can monitor, but mainly because some knobs are telling Workcover I'm not going for a walk. Monitoring helps prove I do, but I'm being told I'm not allowed to be using a mobile, so holding it visible is attracting some negative attention from management.
I think the watch would solve all of that and a little more of my needs.
Funny thing...
I remember when the old car phones and mobiles first came out. Those huge bricks, and some with the suitcase.
I used to say I'd never get a mobile. I'd never go for the fad.
Then I took a package at work, bought a van and started working as a courier. I ended up getting an old Nokia with a car kit so I was always contactable. The phone's kept getting smaller and I followed that fad. Now they are getting bigger and I got up to the Z10 and stopped there. Wishing for a new Z10 with grunt, but bigger for me is too big.
Posted via CB10 on my BlackBerry Z10
I never stopped wearing a watch. Easier to glance at my wrist that have to pull out my phone from my pocket or bag
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I do miss a watch sometimes, it brings an elegance to appearance.
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Where the heck are the color watches. OMG I do not want this. WTH!!!!!
Posted via CB10
Get an iWatch then
Posted via my BlackBerry Passport
The Pebble Time has a colour display.
Posted via CB10
How much this watch now?
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Pebble watches doesn't look good to me.
Suffer Now & Live The Rest Of Your Life As A Champion
I agree with you, but I thing the Pebble Time Steel looks nice, the Gold with a red wristband looks very similar to the iwatch of a similar colour. I think I'll get one fast before Apple sues them.
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*thing = think
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Lol... geez... just strap your phone to your wrist... look like a quarterback Reviewing offensive plays... lol what next...
Rocking the Z30 Regina SK Canada
Anyone know if the Pebble operates with full features just like with iOS or Android? On a Blackberry Passport.
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It's somewhat limited compared to iOS and Android but it can still do quite a lot. Was there anything in particular you wanted? It does music controls, notifications for email, twitter, Facebook, SMS, calling, calendar
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full features, no. I use hub2Watch on an original pebble that I switched out the plastic/rubber band for a black metal band and have gotten multiple compliments on it. the next question is invariably, how often do you have to charge it ?
the one sticky wicket is that content of BBM's can't be read by the watch, you only get notifications of new bbm's. my understanding is that this is not true for bbm's in android or iOS. if this was a deal breaker i could switch and get an android phone, but i would rather live with the hub and no wrist bbm's than wrist bbm's and no hub.
And to the people who say that this is just a useless gadget, ask yourself this. have you ever been in a situation where you would like to get short amounts of info, but where its socially improper to pull out your phone ( like at dinner/in a movie theater/ in a meeting when you want to know the score of the game or a notification that someone got home)? have you ever put your phone to vibrate at the start of a meeting and forgotten to turn it back to ring at the end only to miss a call ?
Meh, for me, Hub2Watch works the best.
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Will this be compatible with the upcoming Pebble Time?
Am on the fence about getting it when it is available out of fear of it not playing nice with BlackBerry.
[Hopefully NOT edited by admin to be fair lol. ;)] Frosty White Q10/10.3.2.500 CB10
The Talk2Watch developer frequently replies on this forum. He's also getting his Time real soon so hopefully he'll be able to test the two together to find out if it works. Another developer has already got his and things are looking positive - it seems that the T2W dev won't have to do too much. Fingers crossed!
http://forums.crackberry.com/showthread.php?t=868207
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Lcars
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Interface looks like startrek
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I was thinking the same, looks like the LCARS OS
Back to early 90's.
PassportSQW100-1/10.3.1.2576
I agree, it looks like LCARS :-)
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You say that like it's a bad thing ;-)