Fossil doesn’t plan to upgrade its existing watches to the new Wear OS
A “premium” gen 6 watch is the company’s next planned offering
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Fossil executives Greg McKelvey and Steve Prokup said in an interview with CNET that the company’s existing Wear OS watches won’t get upgraded to the new combined Wear software platform from Samsung and Google. Instead, Fossil is planning a premium watch that Prokup said would have “pretty major hardware upgrades,” and existing watches will probably be discounted as budget options.
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CNET, Fossil’s Gen 6 watch should have features similar to upcoming watches from Google and Samsung, with faster performance, longer battery life, new chips, and LTE cellular options. “All of the software benefits that Google’s talking about and launching with the unified platform is something we’ll be building into that as well,” McKelvey said.
US-based fashion brand Fossil, the biggest Wear OS wearables maker, is planning to launch a premium Gen 6 smartwatch that will run on Google s revamped operating system for the devices.Fossil executives told CNET that their upcoming Android .
If you’re thinking of buying a Wear OS watch right now – don’t. That’s the conclusion we’re drawing from a new interview with Fossil execs, that sheds some .