The Fossil Gen 6 arrived this week as the most high-end smartwatch on the planet running Wear OS 2. That’s a very specific title or description because, well, Samsung also makes very high-end smartwatches, but they happen to run Wear OS 3. Those distinctions tell a lot of the story that we will dive deeper into once we’ve spent more time with each. For now, let’s just have some unboxing fun with this new Fossil Gen 6 that showed up on our doorstep.
To recap, the Fossil Gen 6 is the newest device from the Fossil Group, with a Snapdragon Wear 4100+ chip, 1GB RAM, 8GB storage, GPS, NFC, Bluetooth 5.0, WiFi, heartrate and SpO2 sensor, 3ATM water resistance, and a 1.28″ round AMOLED display that’s surrounded by a 44mm case. That 44mm case is made of stainless steel and supports 22mm quick-change straps.
You’ll also find a speaker and microphone for taking calls, a lot of wellness-related software tracking, fast charging, and all of Fossil’s excellent battery mode to help you customize the experience.
I’ve spent all of 15 hours so far with the Gen 6 on the wrist and quite like the way it fits, feels, and performs. It has a good weight to it, spreads out nicely on my arm even at 44mm, and most definitely snaps around when you interact with it. Of course, none of that may matter to you knowing that this watch runs Wear OS 2 and likely won’t get Wear OS 3 for almost a year, but we’re still going to do the testing.
Any questions about the Fossil Gen 6?
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I’ll probably get this after it drops to $200. The Galaxy Watch 4 didn’t really do much for me, despite the hardware (especially due to the fact that some features are locked to using a Samsung phone… which I don’t have or plan to get).
That video was a little all over the place Kellen. Lol the end was great with the comparisons. Thanks for continuing to provide wear os info.
The Galaxy Watch4 is $20 less than this watch and adds more RAM, more storage, bigger screen, ECG, blood pressure, body composition and of course WearOS 3. If Fossil has any chance of selling these they need to drop the price down to $199 otherwise this is DOA.
My thoughts exactly, they trying to justify the 4100+ .
And most of that features work only on Samsung phones. So it is a very poor watch for other phones.
I was wondering about that. I know in the past samsung watches have been great with samsung phones, but limited with other phones. I was hoping with Samsung “partnering” with Google that would have changed, but it seems like that isnt case.. that just means i will hold on to my Gen 5 a while longer..
Can you connect an external heart rate chest strap for more accurate readings during workouts?
Does the screen flicker while on AOD like the Gen 5 Carlyle does (at least in literally 4 ones that I tried)? It drives me crazy.
My gen 5 doesn’t seem to do that sorry you had rough luck.