To maximize the battery life of your watch, try the following tips: CHANGE TO A BATTERY OPTIMIZED WATCH FACE: Some watch faces, especially those with animations or interactive abilities and brighter colors, use up more battery life than others. ADJUST SCREEN BRIGHTNESS: The brighter your watch screen, the more battery your watch will use. Turn down your watch screen brightness to save more battery power. Swipe down, tap the gear icon to access Settings, then tap Display to adjust brightness. TURN OFF NOTIFICATIONS YOU DON’T WANT: Turning off notifications can save your battery. Edit which alerts you receive in the Notifications section of the Wear OS by Google app. TURN ON THEATER MODE: Turn off the display and notifications by turning Theater mode on temporarily. Swipe down from the top of your screen, then tap the watch icon to enable Theater Mode. Turn your screen back on by pressing the middle button. AIRPLANE MODE: If your only interest is the time and functions that don’t require connectivity for updates, airplane mode lets you keep seeing what you care about most without draining your battery on other features. Swipe down, then tap the airplane.
Product Features
- Heart rate tracking, NFC payments with Google Pay(TM), built-in GPS, smartphone notifications, app alerts, touchscreen functionality, activity tracking, built-in fitness tracker, Google Assistant, microphone, music storage & controls, customizable watch faces, custom goal & alarm settings, calendar alerts, multiple time zones, weather, LED flashlight, wireless syncing
- Swimproof 3ATM; use Google Fit to track your heart rate, activity and other relevant stats across multiple types of workouts; estimated 24 hour battery life based on usage; magnetic USB rapid charger included; charge up to 80% in under an hour; battery saving mode helps to extend battery life
- This is one smart watch – customize your notifications; complete your look with countless branded watch faces or upload your own social dial; assign your favorite apps to watch pushers for at-a-glance data; easily change your watch strap using quick release pins; download additional third party apps through Google Play Store on your watch
- Case size: 40mm; Band size: 18mm; interchangeable with all Fossil 18mm bands; imported; Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100; Sensors: accelerometer, gyroscope, altimeter
- Powered with Wear OS by Google; compatible with Android OS 4.4+ (excluding Go edition) and iOS 9.3+ smartphones; Bluetooth 4.1 Low Energy and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n; additional features for Android users include responding to texts/emails, sending smart replies to incoming calls, and using Google Assistant to place calls, send texts, and ask for directions; supported features may vary between platforms
Not fully compatible with iOS First things first – this watch is not fully compatible with iPhone.It will receive texts so you can read them, but you cant reply like you can with android.You cant pull your pics from your phone to use as a custom watch face. You cant access your pictures at all from the watch.When you go into the settings for the custom watch faces and select the option to change to one of your own pictures, it gives you a message stating you need a separate app to do that…
Mixed bag…pretty but high maintenance. I own a few smart watches. I’ve found that none of them have everything I want. This one is no exception. It is quite pretty to look at. It keeps good time and an accurate step count. Even on my small (6″) wrist it is not too large. The notifications from my calendar are timely. However there are a few drawbacks:–you need to recharge this *every day*. That’s high maintenance for me. It comes with a proprietary recharger I’m sure to ruin somehow.–No sleep data–The band…
Beautiful and functional watch with a few drawbacks Beautiful watch!! I waited to write this review until I had fully experienced the Fossil Gen 4. It’s an absolutely beautiful watch. I chose the rose gold with the original soft leather band. The rose gold looks more like traditional gold and the leather band was quite comfortable and soft. However after the first time I wore it I noticed that the band looked very dirty (see pic). I tried to clean it with a damp cloth and discovered that the dirt is some sort of staining or rubbing off of a thin…