Fossil watches will no longer run on Wear OS, reports claim

23 December 2023
This means there won't be Fossil Gen 7.

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  • Bappan
  • uvg
  • 21 Jan 2024

I purchased a Gen 6 about a month back and on the very next day the sale price was halved! My watch has a number of issues including SpO2 readings that always show 99%. The battery drains out in under 5 hours of minimal use (surfing) and as others have mentioned before, the phone hangs up, though infrequently

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    • Kojam
    • xDZ
    • 02 Jan 2024

    jason, 30 Dec 2023i have the gen 6 hybrid. It froze 2 times in 23. The 1st ti... moreThey should be in the solid waste business. That's what their watches have been. The world thrive in solid waste!

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      • jason
      • yR0
      • 30 Dec 2023

      i have the gen 6 hybrid. It froze 2 times in 23. The 1st time was sombad, i had to ship it to Fossil, and they were going to charge me for their broken mess.

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        • Watchfan
        • rx2
        • 29 Dec 2023

        Fossil isn't doing good since last couple of years. Business is going down every single year and perhaps do not have sufficient finance to continue. Google reflects miserable business results of Fossil. Looks like drowning and completely getting eliminated from global market. At last breathe!!!!

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          • Jbowers726
          • 0d9
          • 29 Dec 2023

          I have a fair guess as to why they stopped production. The product has never worked right since Gen 2. The charger never charged the watch, or locks up or freezes up, I have replaced every single Gen of my watch under warranty with the promise that the next Gen will be better. I am on Gen 6 and finally threw it away because it doesn't charge. Fossil support doesn't hold to their warranty standards anyway...

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            • Wemm
            • E@s
            • 28 Dec 2023

            safin asa, 27 Dec 2023Hopefully fossil will make a feature/dumb watch, like a dum... moreThey have one, the hybrid hr. Legitimately my favourite watch, well above Galaxy watch 4 or any of my regular watches. No one mentions watches around me in general, for whatever reason EVERYONE I talk regularly has asked me about it at this point. So it looks great, looks like a regular watch, you get notifications if you want, and battery life is like 2 weeks in the original, I'm waiting on the 2nd gen (I think gen 6 hr hybrid or something) currently in the mail.

              Hopefully fossil will make a feature/dumb watch, like a dumb phone in a watch 🕛.
              And let's expect Long-lasting battery too.

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                • Smartwatchguy
                • Y7A
                • 25 Dec 2023

                Legend Z, 25 Dec 2023Haha who needs a watch for 100 minutes??! Maybe something got deleted by accident when posting or wrong comments section. My 3 year old watch lasts 4 days that's more than 5700 minutes. The new watch lasts a day longer so 5 days (24h in a day, 60min in an hour)..

                  Haha who needs a watch for 100 minutes?

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                    • Smartwatchguy
                    • Y7A
                    • 25 Dec 2023

                    If true, I'm not surprised. After what Google did to those that not only saved the platform, but revived also revived interest in wear os devices. There are some extremely talented developers that make apps that bring out the platform's potential, if the two or three that I'm thinking about at the moment got together with proper finding.. One can only wish.

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                      • Sunil
                      • rKx
                      • 25 Dec 2023

                      Monty, 24 Dec 2023I had a couple of fossil wearOS watches (one for me and one... moreFossils watch battery draining like that water . I am strongly recommend please do not buy. If you are using it every one minute you will get 1% drained means 100% minutes maximum watch can run

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                        • XH0
                        • 24 Dec 2023

                        Isn't, "Wear OS will no longer run on Fossil watches," more accurate?

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                          • yalim
                          • 0Iu
                          • 24 Dec 2023

                          Monty, 24 Dec 2023I had a couple of fossil wearOS watches (one for me and one... morethat must be a ticwatch. I was hoping them also to release a more compact watch (E3 successor) apart from the pro series with the secondary display but, they didn't. they are focused on outdoor side of things like garmin.

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                            • ted
                            • pUT
                            • 24 Dec 2023

                            or, they might have realised smartwatch's without a camara module are a blind alley

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                              • Monty
                              • kPc
                              • 24 Dec 2023

                              I had a couple of fossil wearOS watches (one for me and one for my wife). The battery life was abysmal. Coming from a moto360 that died after a few years (after 4.5 years of use!), this was a major backstep. From the first wearOS watch to almost 5 years of development later, this was disappointing.
                              At best, the Fossil watch would last a max of 10 hours with "screen always on" turned off. If you kept ambient screen on then that would cut it down to 4 hours. From what I've read this was a common complaint. Fossil stated that battery life was 24-48 hours. This was very far from the truth. The battery life got progressively worse after 3 or so months of use.
                              My new WearOS watch actually lasts 3-4 days. It has a secondary low power screen which really helps. This is the way it should be as a baseline! We need watches that will last a week on a charge.

                                Fossil didn't abandon wear os for a long time, but Google (and by extension, wear os) abandoned them at the drop of a hat. Their smartwatches looked good though, using an custom os like amazfit might be the way to go for them.

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • nWf
                                  • 24 Dec 2023

                                  Anonymous, 24 Dec 2023The world needs watches that last week's between charg... moreFully agree. It's unimaginable how consumers have settled for "smart"watches that can't last 24 hours and defy most of the point of wearing them (health and sleep tracking). Apple fanbois will buy anything anyway, but I'd expect higher standards from other consumers. I currently wear a Garmin with an 11-day theoretical / 7-day real battery life. I would not wear anything with a shorter charging cycle even if it was gifted to me.

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • srr
                                    • 24 Dec 2023

                                    The world needs watches that last week's between charges, not hours. Fossil needs to sell boat loads of watches and WearOS is simply for enthusiasts and not for everyone. WearOS (and also Apple Watch OS) are hugely underutilized yet they consume a lot of power.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • Mkm
                                      • 24 Dec 2023

                                      Time to make RISC-V mainstream. People should accept and embrace free and open source alternatives.

                                        Considering the Apple Watch being banned, you would think it's a prime opportunity for Google to push Wear OS together with its partners.

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