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[Updated with new pricing and availability] Here are all the Gen 5 Fossil manufactured...
Wear OS is a beleaguered platform at best, but that doesn't stop us wanting it to be better and hoping for better hardware for it to run on. The announcement of the Snapdragon 3100...
Three new Wear OS Smartwatches arrive from Michael Kors at IFA 2019
With IFA 2019 heating up over in Berlin we're starting to see a flurry of activity. One piece of news we were expecting from Fossil / Michael Kors was the release of at...
All new Michael Kors Lexington Wear OS watch from Fossil leaks out
With the new Fossil Gen 5 officially announced (and on the Ausdroid review bench) we've been expecting all of Fossils sub-brands to start trickling out the 2019 refresh to their lines of Wear OS...
North American smartwatch sales grow but Google’s Wear OS continues to miss the mark
According to Canalys smartwatch sales in North America have increased by 38 percent over the last 12 months but worryingly Wear OS continues to trail everyone.
Market research company Canalys have conducted research on the...
Fossil Gen 5 Wear OS Smart Watch to hit Australian retail shelves this month
Living in Australia is awesome, unless you want a decent broadband connection or the latest in technology. It seems Fossil would like to fix one of those problems. Speaking with Fossil Australia, they have...
Fossil officially announce their Gen 5 smartwatches, the Carlyle and the Julianna
Over the weekend we saw details of the next generation of Fossil smartwatches leak and today, even though the basics appeared on the Australian website yesterday, they have become official.
Fossil have announced the first...
[UPDATE: Australian Fossil Gen 5 site goes live] Fossil are unveiling new smartwatches tomorrow,...
Some Redditors are saying that Fossil Australia have leaked the new smartwatch on their website but considering it is Monday here it is not a leak but a well-timed web-page launch. The...
Fossil, Michael Kors, Emporio Armani, and Diesel Wear OS smartwatches spotted at the FCC
As Android fans we are waiting on that magic bullet that will make Wear OS better. That may not be hard but by better we mean not laggy and full of bugs. ...
Australian launch details and pricing for new smartwatches from Fossil, Skagen and Michael Kors
Fossil has announced launch details of their new and upcoming smartwatches today in Sydney. The group handles watches (both smart and traditional) for a number of fashion brands like Diesel, Misfit, A|X, Skagen and...
Google purchase wearable tech from Fossil for $40 million
Google's Wear OS seems to be stagnant with most people seemingly waiting for that magic silver bullet that will fix everything. Google has not given up on the fledgling OS and has signalled...
Fossil Sport is their first Snapdragon Wear 3100 watch running Wear OS
The rollout of new Wear OS watches running the newly announced Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100 SoC has been slow (and expensive) with the Mont Blanc Summit the first, but Fossil will be second with...
Fossil Q Sport heads through FCC in the US running Wear OS
As owner of a number of fashion brands, the Fossil Group is a power house when it comes to pushing out Wear OS devices and it looks like another is on the way with...
Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100 announced, with advanced battery savings for new smartwatches
Overnight Qualcomm has announced the next generation of its wearable technology platform, Snapdragon Wear 3100. At its heart, the system is built on an advanced power-saving core, designed to deliver in three main areas:...
Fossil Q Explorist HR (4th Generation) – Brief Review
For years in smart wearables we've worn devices created by technology companies first, and the somewhat wonky design was something we just had to accept. Then smartwatch makers got smart, and started coming out...
Australian Pricing and Availability for Kate Spade and Skagen Android Wear watches announced
At CES this year we saw two new Android Wear watches from companies within the Fossil Group announced from Skagen and Kate Spade new york. The local pricing and availability have now been announced,...