About this item
- COMPATIBILITY – Smartwatches with Wear OS by Google are compatible with phones running the latest version of Android or iOS. Qualcomm 4100+ chipset has 30% enhanced performance. Improved power, more reliable connection and up to 4x range with Bluetooth 5.
- ALEXA ENABLED – Get a little extra help with Alexa built-in. Easily access the Amazon Alexa app to get quick news and information, check the weather, set timers and alarms, control smart home devices, and more – all through the sound of your voice.
- HEALTH – Automatically tracks activity goals, steps, sleep, cardio and more. Activity modes with GPS keep you on track with your distance and path. Advanced sensors provide data to power your health and fitness tracker apps. Swimproof.
- PERSONALIZED STYLE – Always-on display now brighter with more colors and higher pixel count. Thousands of watch faces to personalize your look and always see the time. Hundreds of apps from fitness, music, social, news, stop watches and more.
- STAY CONNECTED – Notifications for calls, texts, apps. Automatic time zone and calendar syncing. Answer and make calls directly on your watch when your phone is out of reach. This smart watch features a speaker, microphone, and customizable buttons.
- BATTERY LIFE – Our new caseback and included magnetic charger cable allow for faster charging than other generations. Charge up to 80% in 30 minutes. Optimize your battery life with simplified Smart Battery Modes.
– Ms. Ophelia Grimes IV
Great watch good price
– Ms. Meggie Howe
I can’t say about operating system. Only had a few weeks. Charge daily. It does what I need. It fits my need of smartwatch and branding. I love FOSSIL. This watch is pretty. I like changing the face frequently so it’s like a new watch. I did change band as one that came with it was too big. Unlike all my other fossil watches you can just remove links with clasps.
– Eveline Grady
The media could not be loaded.Purchased 12/1/23. I absolutely love this watch. It’s a 44mm screen with an 18mm replaceable watch band. It’s Wear OS 3 , so it won’t connect to Wear OS. It has to be connected through the Fossil Smartwatch app. It tracks heartbeat, sleep, and O2. It’s incredibly accurate. It’s pretty, has a nice display. Quite a few features. Fits nice on my wrist. The only problem is it will occasionally freeze if I try to do stuff to fast. That’s the only con at this point. Will update if anything changes.
– Ms. Arlie McLaughlin V
From 11/02/23 to 11/27/23, I wrote 3 bad reviews about the Fossil Gen 6, complaining about …Overheating battery and the watch going into battery save mode, the sound coming back on, the watch reconnects itself to WiFi every now and then so you have to keep turning WiFi off to conserve battery, randomly freezing and not responding, it requires a lot of adjustments in the settings and permissions to properly track your workouts and display your steps, the bot email from fossil support and a few other compaints……….. and then returned that watch. I purchased another brand, Garmin, that I was happy with until Garmin kept on telling me I was stressed and this increased my anxiety and stress. You see, the thing is… is I’m here today on June 10th 2024, to kinda eat some humble pie. Originally, I came from an apple watch, where the apple watch has zero personality or style or elegance, but at least everything just works. Then I switched to Android to give the middle finger to the whole apple ecosystem.Switching to Android, I didn’t appreciate how few options we actually have. Long ago they promised us these fun wearable computers that would be like a personal assistant with games, notifications and news on your wrist, but something changed. Something else took over and now all smart watches are health trackers and fitness devices. I’ve tried a few android watches, and despite its flaws, the fossil watch is among the best. A number of other smart watches don’t let you choose what permissions to give to the sensors. The fossil watch does allow that. Lots of android watches have issues with notifications but the fossil watch just has an issue with the sound turning itself back on. Lots of features on other Android watches seem very shallow, like you click on it and then there are no options, but the fossil watch is pretty in depth. Some of the options have options.So in light of not being able to find any better choices out there, except maybe the Samsung Galaxy for those who have a Samsung phone, I am here to change my review from one star to four stars. I actually missed the personality and the style of the fossil watch, so I purchased a new Fossil Gen 6 on sale 50% off, on June 8th 2024. Yep, after all my raging, I came crawling back.Once you learn how to make a few adjustments, it’s a decent watch. Go into settings, system, and find the model number and tap on it 7 times. A message will pop up telling you that you are now a developer. Then go back one page and a new menu option appears; “developer options”. Then go into that and turn off the setting “auto connect to WiFi while charging”. This will save battery because once the watch turns its own wifi on, it doesn’t turn it off, causing you to be unaware that it’s using more power to connect to WiFi. Turning off that “auto connect to wifi” will also prevent the battery from getting too hot while charging. Also, when you go to sleep, charge it a bit if you like but don’t put it on the charger overnight. Just charge it while you get ready in the morning since it charges so fast. This will prevent the battery from getting so hot that the watch puts itself into safe mode.Also that other reviewer is right. The Facer app has a watch face creator named Warren Silberstein and that creator does make some beautiful watch faces. ( Free of charge) Unsurprisingly, the animated watch faces seem to drain the battery faster. The face options the watch comes with do look pretty good, when compared with the watch faces available for other Android watches.You can feel when you wear this watch that the hardware is good and that there’s some good software in there, but there’s also some glitchy and bloated software too. Physically, the watch does not feel cheap to me personally. Just my own opinion.This watch is compatible with 18mm bands