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Precious few consumer electronics brands are still making smartwatches with Google'southward Article of clothing Bone, but Fossil is at the top of that meager heap. It makes smartwatches under brands like Diesel, Skagen, and more. Today, the company has announced new Wear Os watches under its flagship "Fossil" brand. The new Gen 5 watches have the latest hardware, and all the features yous'd expect from a modern Android-powered smartwatch. There are even a few custom features exclusively for Fossil'due south hardware.

While Fossil's new smartwatches are technically split upwardly into several unlike styles to cater to both men and women, they're still slice of hardware on the within. There are basic silverish and blackness watches with leather bands, more expensive metal link band versions, and fifty-fifty some rose gold watches covered in tiny crystals. The cases are all 44mm beyond as well. That makes them rather large on your wrist.

These watches run the Snapdragon Wear 3100, a newer clothing processor that launched about a year ago. Despite its age, many Article of clothing OS devices still launch with the older Wear 2100. The 3100 isn't much more than powerful, and it still leverages 28nm hardware, but information technology supports more hardware features and offers improve battery life. Fossil also equipped its new platform with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage, both about twice the usual allotment. They've too got NFC for Google Pay, a heart rate sensor, Wi-Fi, GPS, 30-meter water-proofing, and a speaker. The last-gen Fossil Sport lacked a speaker for some reason.

Fossil will put that speaker to utilise, besides. These new devices will be the first Wear Bone watches that can have calls on the iPhone. Of form, that feature has e'er been available on the Android side, but Fossil is creating a custom app to enable that on iOS. All the same, that feature won't be available at launch. Fossil says the iOS calling feature will get in as an OTA update sometime this fall.

The Gen 5 watches also focus on bombardment life improvements. Once again, this is a custom feature on top of Habiliment Os. The extended battery mode will allow multi-twenty-four hour period use while showing the time, getting notifications, and monitoring heart rate. Fourth dimension-only mode exists if you want even more bombardment life and don't listen losing all the smart features. But at that point, why not only get a regular watch?

Fossil's Gen 5 watches are on sale today, starting at $295 from Fossil's online store. Amazon won't transport them until early on next month, merely you tin pre-lodge today.

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