Skagen Gen 6

[Achillias]

Fossil has launched two new smartwatches at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2022 - Razer X Fossil Gen 6 and Skagen Falster Gen 6. Both of them are powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100+ SoC and run Google's Wear OS. Razer X Fossil Gen 6 – developed in partnership with gaming peripherals brand Razer – will only be available in limited quantities. Both Razer X Fossil Gen 6 and Skagen Falster Gen 6 smartwatches will be compatible with Wear OS 3 when the update is rolled out later this year.

Both Razer X Fossil Gen 6 and Skagen Falster Gen 6 smartwatches run Google's Wear OS and sport a 1.28-inch (416x416 pixels) AMOLED touch display with 326 ppi pixel density in a 44mm round dial. Powering them is the Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100+ SoC paired with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal memory.

Connectivity options on Razer X Fossil Gen 6 and Skagen Falster Gen 6 include Bluetooth v5 LE, GPS, NFC SE, and Wi-Fi. Onboard sensors include accelerometer, altimeter, ambient light sensor, compass, gyroscope, fff-body IR, PPG heart rate sensor, and blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) sensor. Fossil claims that their battery will last for more than 24 hours and a half an hour charge gives them 80 percent juice. Both watches are water-resistant up to 3ATM (30 metres).

The smartwatches get three buttons on the right side. The middle button – also the home button – can be rotated, while the other two can be configured by the user. The only difference between Razer X Fossil Gen 6 and Skagen Falster Gen 6 is that the former gets a customisable chroma dial with four settings – Breathing, Spectrum Cycling, Static, and Wave. Both smartwatches can be connected to Android and iOS smartphones and have calling capabilities.

The Skagen Falster Gen 6 will be available to purchase on Skagen.com (and likely Amazon) later this month, starting at $295. The Razer X Fossil will be available from Razer.com, Fossil.com, and select Fossil retail stores for $329.

 

[Achillias]

Most beautiful smartwatch to get in my opinion.

 

[ian87w]

Most beautiful smartwatch to get in my opinion.

Beautiful is just skin deep.
Qualcomm Snapdragon wear SoCs are embarrassing. The latest one here is 12nm and using old cortex A53. And that's actually an improvement over the previous one with 28nm and ancient cortex A7 cores. This means less efficient in performance and battery life.

In comparison, Apple Watch S6 runs the Thunder cores from the A13.

You might say "Well, it's a watch, what do you expect?" But it's a smartwatch. The hardware of the platform have to perform well for developers to be attracted to develop their apps on it. Even the reference WearOS Samsung Watch is lagging on its own UI, and Samsung already use their own SoCs. Google still have a ton of homework to do, but Qualcomm is really not helping things around.

 

[Achillias]

Beautiful is just skin deep.
Qualcomm Snapdragon wear SoCs are embarrassing. The latest one here is 12nm and using old cortex A53. And that's actually an improvement over the previous one with 28nm and ancient cortex A7 cores. This means less efficient in performance and battery life.

In comparison, Apple Watch S6 runs the Thunder cores from the A13.

You might say "Well, it's a watch, what do you expect?" But it's a smartwatch. The hardware of the platform have to perform well for developers to be attracted to develop their apps on it. Even the reference WearOS Samsung Watch is lagging on its own UI, and Samsung already use their own SoCs. Google still have a ton of homework to do, but Qualcomm is really not helping things around.

You really never have used a current gen smartwatch on the Google platform. It doesn't even lag or underperform. The most important thing that a smartwatch should do is tracking your notifications, keeping track of your sporting progress, being able to pay effortlessly and making quick replies when needed. All being done without a hitch or a stutter. So keep your saltiness with you.

 

[ian87w]

You really never have used a current gen smartwatch on the Google platform. It doesn't even lag or underperform. The most important thing that a smartwatch should do is tracking your notifications, keeping track of your sporting progress, being able to pay effortlessly and making quick replies when needed. All being done without a hitch or a stutter. So keep your saltiness with you.

This is what's wrong with the fans. With that mindset, WearOS will go nowhere, again. It's already taking this long for Google to do anything, but if the the users are not demanding better stuff and keep in denial and keep denying any criticism, well, good luck with that.

Go buy and use one. The ones that were smooth were Samsung's previous gens because they use their own TizenOS. The latest one, the one for WearOS reference, is okay, but it still stutters for the basic interactions. Definitely not something a consumer will thoroughly enjoy. And this is with Samsung's own chip and their input in the software. If it's a watch from someone else using Qualcomm's pathetic chips, I'm not optimistic.

Keep being in denial though, and see WearOS goes down to irrelevance, yet again.

 

[Achillias]

This is what's wrong with the fans. With that mindset, WearOS will go nowhere, again. It's already taking this long for Google to do anything, but if the the users are not demanding better stuff and keep in denial and keep denying any criticism, well, good luck with that.

Go buy and use one. The ones that were smooth were Samsung's previous gens because they use their own TizenOS. The latest one, the one for WearOS reference, is okay, but it still stutters for the basic interactions. Definitely not something a consumer will thoroughly enjoy. Keep being in denial, and see WearOS goes down to irrelevance, yet again.

The only person who is being denial are you. Just look at you, you're whining about your own personal issues with a brand and OS. You're trying to convince people on a subject of self hatred. You feel something what others don't. You can keep that with you, but don't go on here and try to start your fanboyism for a certain brand. There are millions of people who are happy with a Google smartwatch. If it isn't your cup of tea it's fine, but the only thing you are doing is trolling at the moment. With that mindset communism would still be a big thing around the world and innovation would not exist.

 

[The_Interloper]

Most important thing for WearOS is 1Gb RAM. All the current watches from Samsung, Mobvoi/TicWatch and Fossil/Skagen etc perform just fine with this requirement.

Battery life...now that's another thing. ? But Apple Watch isn't exactly stellar in this department, either.

 

[Achillias]