Fossil Gen 6's Wear OS 3 Update Keeps iPhone Support With A Few Extra Steps - CNET

The Fossil Gen 6 smartwatch series began receiving its long-awaited update to Wear OS 3 connected Monday, bringing with it a caller setup process. The update arrives days aft Fossil announced the $299 Gen 6 Wellness Edition, which ships with Wear OS 3, and makes Fossil's watches 1 of the fewer ways to usage the newest mentation of Google's OS with an iPhone. While planetary availability wasn't announced for the Wellness Edition, different Fossil Gen 6 watches commencement astatine £279 successful the UK and AU$499.

Anyone who uses the Gen 6 with an iPhone volition beryllium directed to instal Fossil's caller companion app arsenic portion of the Wear OS 3 update, which volition regenerate utilizing the Wear OS app that the Gen 6 would antecedently sync through. Fossil is besides debuting its ain wellness tracking features with the update, but the ticker volition proceed to enactment tracking with Google Fit for the clip being. A Fossil spokesperson said that transferring information retired of Google Fit and into the caller Fossil app is presently a work-in-progress, and is expected to beryllium disposable soon.

Even though the caller mentation of Wear OS 3 includes Fitbit fittingness tracking connected the Android-only Pixel Watch, Fossil said that it's not yet disposable for the Gen 6 watches. However Fossil doesn't regularisation it out, portion besides mentioning that the Gen 6 supports different fittingness apps disposable connected the Play Store.

"We're separately anxious to spot the Fitbit app for Wear OS 3 travel to our watches and anticipation astir of you are blessed successful the meantime with the plethora of different wellness and fittingness apps retired determination including our own," the Fossil spokesperson said.

The Gen 6 watches, which see collaborations with Razer and Skagen, volition besides support compatibility with the Google Play Store and different Google services.

Fossil's Gen 6 debuted past twelvemonth with the announcement that it would yet get the update to Wear OS 3. The ticker different touted a claimed charging velocity of zero to 80% successful 30 minutes and a Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100 Plus chip. 

The Montblanc Summit 3 is the 1 different smartwatch presently connected the marketplace that runs connected Wear OS 3, and similar with Fossil maintains iOS compatibility done its ain app. However astatine a terms of $1,290, it's successful an wholly antithetic luxury terms scope compared to the $299 that the Gen 6 costs.