The Fossil Gen 6 line of smartwatches offers faster charging speeds and eventually Wear OS 3

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Fossil unveiled its new line of Gen 6 smartwatches on Monday, which will arrive this fall and will receive Google’s new Wear OS 3 in an update in 2022. Despite its initial launch on the previous version of Wear OS, Fossil is touting the Snapdragon Wear 4100 Plus chip that is faster than Qualcomm’s watch and a claimed charging speed of 80% from scratch in 30 minutes.

The watch line is priced between $ 299 and $ 319 in the US, which roughly converts to 220 and AU $ 410, and is now available for pre-order.

Also, unlike Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4, which is sporting Wear OS 3 right now, Fossil’s Gen 6 includes more Google services like the Google Assistant along with support for iOS and Android.

Battery life, in particular, is very important to the watch. In addition to the charging requirement, the watch includes a variety of battery modes for 24 hours of battery life up to multiple days when you choose an extended battery mode.

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The watch is available in 44mm and 42mm case sizes, is swim resistant up to 3 ATM (good for swimming but probably not deeper diving), has 8GB of storage and 1GB of RAM . The health sensors in the watch include one for continuous heart rate monitoring and an Sp02 sensor for blood oxygen.

Fossil is among several manufacturers that will support Google’s new Wear OS 3 smartwatch platform, which was revealed earlier this summer as a collaboration between Google and Samsung. The watch platform will also receive features from Fitbit after Google competed for the acquisition of the wearable fitness device maker. Fitbit will also create its own Wear OS 3 watch at some point, but until then it recently revealed the Fitbit Charge 5, a fitness-focused wearable device that doesn’t run any version of Wear OS.

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