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Fossil Won’t Upgrade Older Watches to New Wear Platform (Updated)

Kellen June 5, 2021 21

In a bit of breaking news on this random Saturday, Fossil confirmed a couple of big items on our Wear OS future checklist. The first we just shared with you, and that's news of the Fossil Gen 6 arriving this year running the new Wear platform and likely...

Do Not Buy a Wear OS Watch Right Now

Kellen May 24, 2021 18

The Wear OS-related news from last week was exactly the news we hoped Google would deliver. They announced the biggest update to their wearable efforts ever that includes a partnership with Samsung and the hope that other wearable makers will take advantage of...

Fossil Gen 5 Wear OS H-MR2 Update is Back

Kellen April 28, 2021 5

Fossil originally began rolling out Wear OS' big H-MR2 update back in December of last year to the Fossil Gen 5 before pulling the update after issues surfaced. The update has been on hold since, but Gen 5 owners found a fresh build waiting for them today that...

Wear OS Watchmakers Seem Destined to Kill the Platform

Kellen March 9, 2021 41

The watch pictured above is the Huawei Watch 2 from 2017. It was a solid Wear OS watch at the time, with the best specs currently available, including Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear 2100 chip. Again, that was in 2017, a full year after Qualcomm had introduced that...

Verizon Now Selling Fossil Gen 5 LTE for $15/Month ($349 Full Retail)

Tim January 21, 2021 6

This month, Fossil launched the Gen 5 LTE smartwatch, a Wear OS-powered device that is powered by the same ol' Snapdragon Wear 3100 chipset. In other words, you shouldn't buy this watch, unless you have a time machine that will take you back to 2018 when this...

Fossil Gen 5 LTE is Official With the Same Old Chipset

Kellen January 11, 2021 3

The Fossil Gen 5 LTE, a connected watch that hasn't been the best kept secret, is now official to kick off the week of CES 2021. The watch is very much a Fossil Gen 5 only now with an LTE modem inside - this isn't the upgraded watch we wanted from Fossil. At $...

Fossil’s Best Gen 5 Watches are $139 Today ($156 Off) (Updated: Still)

Kellen December 30, 2020 9

Fossil may not yet sell any smartwatches with the new Snapdragon Wear 4100 chip, but their best smartwatches still offer one of the better Wear OS experiences. Those best watches are at some of their best prices ever today over at Amazon. UPDATE 12/30: They...

Apparent Fossil Gen 5 With LTE Stops by FCC

Tim December 22, 2020 3

Fossil's first Wear OS smartwatch with LTE connectivity appears to have gone through the FCC with model number C1NF1. Given past information, it appears this will be yet another Gen 5 model and not Gen 6, with the company's own poorly timed marketing material...