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Fossil Men’s Gen 5 Touchscreen Smartwatch – Watch is robust and looks high quality.

Very light and thin, battery lasts a day, charges quick (~30 min). Display is very good, not very bright on auto, but visible. Everything that was important for me and i chose wear os for works. Google keep has good integration. Google maps has good integration. Google calendar + outlook have good integration. Notifications from 2fa applications can be confirmed from the watch. This is my first smart watch so i can not compare it to other brands/models. What i love the most is that i can see all my daily meetings at a glance as they are shown on the watch face (first – a calendar watchface – not free, but affordable. Outlook watch face is free but has bug in latest wear os version edit: the bugs were fixed in the last patch.

Fantastic watch for your android phone with the full range of features including heart rate, waterproof, google pay, always on option, wifi. Moving over from iphobe & apple watch 3 to pixel 4 & the fossil gen 5 has been a treat – both are quicker, more customizable and feature complete. Battery is the one limiting factor – but the quick switching of modes through the pull down menu prevents me ever running out. You will likely need to charge it nightly if you want to enable all features – not a problem for me.

I thought it as a replacement for a apple watch, but the interface is no that great. Build quality is great, the battery last for a day and a half which is improved from gen 4. But there are software glitches like wifi is getting disconnected and “ok google” is not working most of the time.

I did allot of research including reading written reviews and watching videos, each time this wear os watch came out on top even though the same few issues came up in every review. I have been wearing it for over a week now and it’s a great watch. I was a bit concerned from reviews about the battery life but had listened to all the recommendations so knew what to expect. The first day i used it, i played around with it allot and installed apps and updated the watch, the battery life was terrible. I knew this would happen as all reviews said the first few days all the updates would kill the battery. After the first day and all updates were completed the battery seemed to be fine and i played around with the battery settings and got to know what settings did what to the battery. On the daily setting i have been having around 20% battery life left, that’s from 6am-10pm but this is with light use and the watch being used mainly as a normal watch most of the day. Extended i found i can have as much as 40% left. Custom option you can really adjust the settings to what ever you like so if you wanted i guess you could get 2-3 days from the watch but then most of the smart options are turned off. Once the battery gets below 10% it asks you to turn on time only mode which turns the watch in to exactly that a watch for telling the time.

Watch is robust and looks high quality. Linking to samsung phone was straight forward with the battery averaging at one and half days. Battery life can be increased by turning off some functions, which can be done through the battery application on the watch. Overall happy with the premium look and functionality, would recommend to someone who likes a smartwatches thats look like a normal watch.

Bought for husband as an early xmas present. It’s a brilliant little gadget and i have to be honest it knocks other smart watches out of the water. The only downside is to be able to use some features you need to download the paid apps for them, which is pretty annoying given that you already fork out close to £300 for the watch as it is. Be warned there is a usb lead in the box but no plug, so if you want one that’s another extra you have to pay for.

Reviews from purchasers :

  • Not that great when compared to apple watch!

  • Delivers on my expectations

  • Probably the best Android / WearOS watch currently available

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Watch is robust and looks high quality.

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