Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Fossil Men's Gen 6 44mm Stainless Steel and Silicone Touchscreen Smart Watch, Color: Black (Model: FTW4061V)

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Stylish, snappy, solid performance

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2021

The message is simple. All I wanted---all I've wanted for years---is a watch as good as the Fossil Gen 5, but with a battery that doesn't suck. Well, this watch is as good as the Fossil Gen 5, and its battery doesn't suck.

I've been using Wear OS watches since 2014, back when it was called "Android Wear". In that time, I've come to prefer Fossil watches, since they provide the basic smartwatch features I care about (handling notifications; counting steps; NFC payment; checking weather; etc.), but look like *actual watches*. Attractive, without sticking out too much---just right! The Fossil Gen 5 was particularly nice. With one hardware button mapped to flashlight (super handy---try it!) and the other mapped to Google Pay, it fit my needs perfectly.

Except... the battery. Every day, it would limp along until hitting one of the "extended battery" modes sometime mid-evening. A few times a month, it'd end up in time-only mode: oof. And poker night? Forget it: dead before I head home. "All day battery"... well, *kinda*. Why couldn't I have a watch as good in the evening as the Gen 5 was in the morning?

Enter the Gen 6. The Snapdragon Wear 4100+ sets it up for significantly improved battery life. All they had to do was *deliver*, without losing any of the good points of the Gen 5. And they did! I haven't given the battery a second thought since I got the watch a week ago. Every day, it ends with 40-50%, or more. And this is with the always-on display, which I consider essential for anything that claims to be a "watch". (I'm using the Classic watch face, FWIW.)

What's more, it throws in an SpO2 sensor for good measure. The reading takes a lot longer than a dedicated SpO2, but it's nice to know I'll always have it in a pinch.

Much has been made about the expected long delay for Wear OS3. This doesn't bother me, since I'll be spending those months with, essentially, a Gen 5 with SpO2, minus the battery anxiety.

It wasn't *all* roses. I did find the setup procedure a bit clunky. It takes a good while to finish downloading all the apps and getting everything the way I want it.

Oh, and a caveat: that setup procedure seems to use a _lot_ of battery. Don't judge the battery life on your first day experience---it's not representative!

Overall, if you want an attractive, performant smartwatch, with comfortably all-day battery life, this could be for you.

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Lord Wood

trash battery life etc,

Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2021

UPDATE: Refunded because of its many bugs and terrible battery life.

bought this to replace my galaxy watch and damn its got so many issues i thought would have been worked out by now by watch devs let alone fossil brand.
issues so far-
1.battery life, thing don't last the day, like 7 hours with nfc turned off and tacking turned off.

2.adjusting the watch band takes tools i don't have so good thing i ordered other watch bands at purchase.

3.gotta download apps to change watch faces and they want you to pay for more or most apps, max of 10 i think before you have to purchase a premium account to hold up to 20...wtf galaxy smoked them on this part the most.

4.ignoring the very long setup and updates that seemed to have made the watch worse somehow the interface is extremely bad and poorly designed, getting around and setting things up is by far 200x worse then the galaxy watch i had.

The good.
1. the watch is made well with good metals and feels nice and looks nice but only time will tell how it holds up......thats it...nothing else is good about this watch.

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Bonnie

Solid Performing Full Featured Smartwatch

Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2022

Color: SmokeVerified Purchase

Ordered the Fossil 6 after being a satisfied customer of the Fossil 5 but was looking for the additional feature of SPO2 monitoring as well as the ability to update to the new Android OS3.

Amazon delivery was quicker than expected which is another plus.

So far the watch appears to operate quite well after the initial set up period. Setup is a snap if you already have a Google account as you can easily transfer info/contacts to the watch. The worst thing plaguing most smart watches is battery life but you can extend it by using various battery modes, airplane mode as well as turning screen always on to off.

Overall, we are very satisfied & would recommend this product.

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Brett K

Good Smart watch

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2022

Color: Black/BrownVerified Purchase

The watch is very nice looking. Apps work well on it. Easy to use. Screen is smaller then the face of the watch, I am not a fan of the dead space of the face. Looks like they wanted bigger watch and used the same smaller screen. Battery life will last you a long day, not much more. Good thing it charges super fast. Charger is nice and small and snaps right into place easy. I have owned a few different smart watches and this is definitely not a top choice of watchs I have owned. But, it will get the job done and you can answer calls on it. Quality and sound is good if you are in a quite place to answer. If they fix the face and screen to match and give a bigger battery to it, I will look at buying another Fossil. Until then, I will stick with Tic watch.

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mike32m4

I'm happy with it

Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2022

Color: BlackVerified Purchase

So alot of people are complaining about the battery... Well I mean what smartwatch for the price is gonna last so long let's be real. So I shut off a couple features that I don't need and I'm getting a full days worth out of it. The best thing this watch has is the fast charging. So as I'm getting ready for work in the morning I throw it on the charger for 30 min and I'm back to 100 percent that takes me all through the work day and I get home jump onto the rowing machine for 35 min with it on then before I shower I throw it back on the charger once I finish showering I put it back on.. That's how my day goes with it on and I'm satisfied with it.. basically no hard complaints with it.

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E46Envy

Great watch!...but the screen will scratch easily...

Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2022

Color: BlackVerified Purchase

The Fossil Gen 6 watch is a great Wear OS watch. Easy to use, smooth operation, and very versatile. This is my 8th smart watch in many years and this one is the best. Sadly, the downfall is the screen will scratch pretty easily. I was recently taking down an artificial Christmas tree and reaching into the center of the tree, to reach a connector, scratched my watch screen in several places. Think about an artificial tree...it's made of plastic "pine tree needles". So, in reality the plastic, flexible "pine tree needles" scratched the "Gorilla Glass" on the front of a $200 watch. That is very disappointing.

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john

Great watch

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2022

Color: Black/CamoVerified Purchase

The only issue is battery. It does have w time only more that last days and days. After owning it fir a week I get about a day and s half of battery life. When I first got it I only would get ¾day. Other than that I love this watch I can even talk on the phone with it like double oh seven.

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Digi B.

Great watch. Glad they fixed the battery life issue

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2022

Color: Black/BrownVerified Purchase

Ended getting this on a super sale, and love it. It pushes notifications to my watch and even when I have pager duty alerts (I'm a server engineer with on call responsibilities) it pushes everything to my watch so I can acknowledge it.

Huge plus because of that. Battery life is great. It lasts about 36 hours with all the sensors going. All I need to do is let it charge for 30 ish minutes on the morning and it is ready to go

Only gripe I have is that sometimes wear os freezes on it, and I have to let the battery go all the way out before it will charge.

This has only happened twice since I've had the watch though.

Oh, and it doesn't come with a real leather strap. So I had to get one instead of using the leather/gummy strap. That was a little disappointing

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chris koester

Problems with Apple platform

Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2022

Color: Brown Leather + Black SiliconeVerified Purchase

You can answer calls and make them from the watch. Sound quality is good. You can receive text, but can not respond from watch. The app wear OS has little to no watch faces to choose from, and appears to be mainly geared for fitness.

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M. Pritchard

I want to love it

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2022

Color: Black/BrownVerified Purchase

I like the way it looks and enjoy many of it's functions. What I don't like is it constantly disconnects from my phone and I have to restart it to reconnect and get my notifications. The custom watch face keeps reverting back to default multiple times per day and I can't figure out why. But, it tells time! Tracks my steps, and I like getting my phone notifications even when my phone is in another room. I don't have issues with the battery, it makes it through the day and I charge it overnight.

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