by Anura Guruge
on August 18, 2021
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Unlike the disappointing ‘Samsung’ ‘Watch 4’, the ‘Fossil’ ‘Gen 6’ will work with any & all Android phones. That, obviously, is a big plus. The problem with the Gen 6 is going to be Google’s ‘Wear OS’. Yes, of course, it will be using Wear OS — Fossil always having been a stawlwart champion of ‘Android Wear’ (then ‘Wear’ & now Wear OS).
All of the current reporting is that the Gen 6 will NOT be supporting Wear OS 3 (the latest version). And that is the RUB. Wear OS was a major, pivotal upgrade to Wear OS. The Samsung Watch 4 does have Wear OS — but it, inexplicably, Samsung has opted not to make it fully functional OUTSIDE of Samsung phones. So, I, for one can’t get all of its features because I refuse to have a Samsung phone. I want my phone to be from Google — the mothership of Android.
Yes, the Gen 6 is supposed to get Wear OS 3 next year. In the second half. That is nearly a year away! By then, I am sure, we will have had at least one other non-Samsung Wear OS 3 watch. It might even be from Fitbit — now that Google owns them. So, stay tuned.
