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Wednesday 19 August 2020

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

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

Fossil has released a new update for its Gen 5 Wear OS smartwatches that add a variety of features to the watches that aren’t part of standard Wear OS, including sleep and VO2 max tracking.

The bulk of the new features Fossil is adding here can be categorized as improvements for activity tracking, with the update promising better real-time fitness tracking (like heart rate, pace, distance, steps, and calories) at half the power consumption by offloading those tasks from the main processor to the QCC1110 co-processor. Fossil is also adding sleep tracking — a missing feature so prominent the company had an FAQ page about it — and VO2 max tracking for your overall cardio fitness level.

Fossil is also updating its battery-saving modes,...

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from TV Aerial Installation Services Warrington https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/19/21376185/fossil-gen-5-smartwatches-update-sleep-tracking-vo2-max-activity-battery
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