Fossil is in the present day saying its new Gen 6 smartwatches, its first vary of gadgets powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon Wear 4100+. The new platform will, Fossil guarantees, supply a lot of quality-of-life enhancements together with sooner loading occasions and the flexibility to quick cost to 80 p.c in half an hour. In addition, the brand new watches will supply steady heart-rate monitoring, a brand new blood oxygenation sensor and a brand new built-in wellness app for extra dependable exercise monitoring. Oh, and customers will be capable of make tethered calls due to an integral speaker and microphone combo, must you want the function.

Naturally, Fossil has made it clear that these Gen 6 watches, in contrast to the present (and older) fashions, will likely be appropriate with Wear OS 3 and customers can anticipate to obtain the replace due in 2022. The new watches will launch in two sizes: a 42mm case with three colour choices, whereas you will get 4 completely different paint jobs in the event you go for the 44mm case. Both gadgets, nevertheless, will get a 1.28-inch spherical AMOLED show (326 ppi), with 8GB built-in storage and 1GB RAM. Since an enormous a part of Fossil’s gross sales pitch is customizability, you’ll additionally get all kinds of strap decisions to assist make these gadgets extra suited to your private fashion, too.

The Fossil Gen 6 watches will price between $299 and $319, with pre-orders open proper now.