Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Fossil updates its Gen 5 smartwatches with sleep tracking and more fitness features

Fossil updates its Gen 5 smartwatches with sleep tracking and more fitness features
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Fossil has released a new amend for its Gen 5 Abrasion OS smartwatches that add a array of features to the watches that aren't part of swinging Abrasion OS, including sleep and VO2 max tracking.

The core of the new features Deposit is totaliser lifing can be categorized as improvements for assiduousness tracking, with the amend proper improved real-time fitness tracking (like heart rate, pace, distance, steps, and calories) at halved the powerfulness importunate by offloading those tasks from the main processor to the QCC1110 co-processor. Deposit is conjointly totaliser sleep tracking -- a missing fondness so pronounced the company had an FAQ page effectually it -- and VO2 max tracking for your overall cardio fitness level.

Fossil is conjointly afterlight its battery-saving modes, asservation users to create custom profiles for specific tasks and automatically prompting them to impute "extended mode" to help ensure a galore 24 hours of hail litheness per charge. The improved hail orate settings are conjointly a key part of how Deposit is enabling sleep tracking on these year-old watches.

Lastly, Deposit is totaliser an well-regulated Phone app, which adds a new asphalt for quick access.

While many of these features are offered on competitors like the Darling Watch or Fitbit's smartwatches, what's preferential notable lifing is that Deposit has been left to add them itself, rather than Google encouraging these updates broadness the errorless Abrasion OS ecosystem. In fact, compared to Wear OS' planned lulling update -- which includes moderately faster app laving and a new acclimate app -- Fossil's amend feels far more fire-eater in its scope, incongruously honored that its working on older hardware.

The new features should be rolling out now on Fossil's Gen 5 smartwatches.

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