American watchmaker Fossil has announced its new smartwatches for 2021, the Fossil Gen 6 smartwatches. The company has launched the Fossil Gen 6 smartwatches in several different styles and sizes. There is also a Michael Kors version that is said to be the more premium version of the Gen 6 smartwatches. The Fossil Gen 6 smartwatches do not come with Google?s new Wear OS 3 that runs on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4. The smartwatches start at a price of $299 (roughly Rs 21,900) and have been made available for pre-orders in the United States. It is not known as to when the Fossil Gen 6 smartwatches will be launched in international markets including India.
The Fossil Gen 6 smartwatches instead ship with Wear OS 2. The company says that it will ship Wear OS 3 to Gen 6 smartwatches next year via an upgrade. Google has said that the Wear OS 2 smartwatches won?t get the update to Wear OS 3 till late 2022 and even those will require a hard reset before updating. Now, while the Fossil Gen 6 smartwatches ship with a rather outdated software, the company has packed some premium features like an SpO2 sensor. Fossil says that the Gen 6 smartwatches have an updated heart rate sensor that has improved signal accuracy.
The Fossil Gen 6 smartwatches are powered by Qualcomm?s Snapdragon Wear 4100+ processor. These are the fist devices to be powered by the new Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100+ chip. The Fossil Gen 6 smartwatch comes with 1GB RAM and 8GB of internal storage. The Gen 6 smartwatches will come with a 1.28-inch AMOLED display with a 326ppu pixel density. The smartwatches will come with Bluetooth v5.0 and have a speaker phone and mic to enable calls. The battery life on the Fossil Gen 6 smartwatches is claimed to last up to 24 hours. The smartwatch can charge up to 80 percent in just 30 minutes.
Read all the Latest News, Breaking News and Assembly Elections Live Updates here.
Comments
0 comment