
I tried rope skipping, but the watch logged them in my daily footstep count. There are over a dozen activity modes for keeping a track of workouts, but I don’t trust all of them. On the positive side, the speaker and mic array is clear enough for voice calls. I set my own face as a wallpaper, and the watch turned me into somewhat of a square-faced alien. So modest is the demand from the pixels that the screen even struggles with scaling a photo imported from your camera roll without crushing the colors. That’s because it runs pretty barebones software, which barely offers any semblance of graphical goodness. But the Pebble wearable doesn’t really need to touch the same pixel-density figures as its inspiration. The display offers a peak brightness of 600 nits, which was enough to display the on-screen contents even under broad daylight without any legibility issues. It’s not the most pixel-dense panel I’ve seen on a smartwatch, and definitely nowhere close to what Apple serves. It’s a 1.95-inch panel with a resolution of 380 x 385 pixels.

I was also pleasantly startled by the screen. A handful of good (and bad) surprises Nadeem Sarwar / DigitalTrends In India, the bands sell at a 125% higher asking price compared to the Pebble wearable. It’s quite funny that Apple’s official bands for its pricey smartwatch cost nearly twice that of the Pebble Cosmos Engage. I haven’t tried the latter, but it looks like a true replica of what Apple offers. Going a step further, Pebble has also generously aped Apple’s Trail Loop and Ocean-style bands. Pebble even stayed loyal to the strap size, fitting a 49mm band on its Apple Watch Ultra imitation. There are indentations on the corners of the Pebble Cosmos Engage, but unlike the Apple Watch Ultra, there’s no triple mic array, siren, or depth gauge on the copycat. Instead of four screws in each corner that you see on the Apple Watch Ultra, the Pebble Cosmos Engage deviates with cute floral stars surrounded by three concentric rings. For a smartwatch that’s 16 times cheaper than the Apple Watch Ultra, the Pebble Cosmos Engage took me by surprise.īut if you look closely, there are a few differences.
