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Smart Watch FOSSIL Gen 5 Smartwatch The Carlyle HR (silicone) Wi-Fi NFC, black Review

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Description of Smart Watch FOSSIL Gen 5 Smartwatch The Carlyle HR (silicone) Wi-Fi NFC, black

type: smart watch, features: GPS, NFC, waterproof, OS compatibility: Android, OS X, Windows, iOS, measurements: calorie monitoring, sleep monitoring, physical activity monitoring, stopwatch, timer, heart rate monitor: built-in, screen functions: presence screen, touch screen

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Revainrating 5 out of 5

Great value for money, one of the best offers.

Definitely the best watch on Wear OS (previously called Android Wear) as of August 2022. The developers on the Fossil Gen 5 watch, together with Google, have polished the clean Wear OS to such a state that it can safely be considered an unofficial version of Google Watch. After the release of this model, Google just bought the entire Fossil development team, and the same people are now working on official watches from Google, so if you are a happy owner of Google Pixel smartphones or at least…

Pros
  • 1) I use the watch daily as a fitness tracker for integration with Google Fit and G Pay contactless payments. They are discharged per day by less than half, somewhere by 40-45%, i. E. the charge lasts stably for two days, with NFC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth constantly on. Attention! The package comes pre-installed with Cardio and Adidas Runtastic applications, which constantly slow down, transmit your coordinates and eat up the battery. Now, when Google Fit and Wellness (a special heart monitor for Fossil Gen 5) in total can actually do everything, third-party applications are simply not needed and should be removed right away, even before the first Wear OS ate (with each new ate, Google optimizes something and the clock is eating less and less battery). 2) After removing all the Bloatware and leaving a clean Wear OS, the watch just flies. The delay time of the interface for pressing is almost impossible to notice (much less than 0.5 s). 3) The watch is great at detecting your workouts automatically, but in order to get smoother graphs, you should not be lazy and start/stop workouts manually every time. In this case, the clock polls the sensors an order of magnitude more often and the results are more accurate, while this does not visually affect the battery charge. 4) I take my watch off my wrist once a day when I go to the shower. They charge instantly, so when you exit the shower, they are always already 100% charged. Once, while I was putting them on, I was distracted, they slipped out of my hand and fell straight flat on the glass of the dial with such a sound as if I had dropped a weight. For a moment I thought that perhaps they were finished, but when I picked them up and carefully examined them from all sides, I did not even find a single micro scratch. I don’t know if this glass is so strong or I was just lucky, but I don’t plan to repeat this experience on purpose in order to gain statistics.
Cons
  • No obvious shortcomings were noticed, only wishes for further development. In the new version of the watch, it would be possible to introduce oxygen, temperature and ECG sensors, as on the latest Fitbit model, but in practice they need to be used once a year. A non-contact blood sugar monitor would be a fantasy for diabetics, even in the form that is currently available, even if official health institutions refuse to recognize it due to its low accuracy (+/- 25%).