The small device continues to set records, just because it got to market first

Jul 12, 2013 07:00 GMT  ·  By

Over the years, there were several attempts at making a high-tech wrist watch, but few of them ever caught on with the populace.

The Pebble smartwatch is, thus, the first widely available, affordable smartwatch.

It explains why it sold so well from the first day it came out, months ago, and why the Kickstarter project responsible for its existence made over $10 million / €7.65 million.

Speaking of records, Pebble Technology has recently announced that the Kickstarter campaign sold 85,000 of the watches, while pre-orders reserved 190,000 more. And that happened after Pebble had sold out on Best Buy.

Developers and users of the pebble can be sure this will spell good things for the future. Large sales mean more reason to make apps for the Android device after all. So far, 1 million have been downloaded.