ehealth: Fossil Q Founder in hands-on and unboxing

April 19, 2020

The smartphone manufacturers have been pushing their wrists with smartwatches for a few years. The watch industry is now following suit – and making your wristwatches smart. We got Fossil's first Android Wear smartwatch today, and stamped a fresh unboxing and hands-on for you. A detailed Review report will of course follow.

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The outer packaging also fits in with the content: the Q Founder is in a box, as is known from current smartphones or smartwatches, and not in a metal box, like so many other Fossil watches. The Q Founder itself is then really right again. Instead of plastic, as with many competitors, there is a damn solid-looking time iron that really deserves this name with a weight of 173 grams.

The only downside is the somewhat cheap plastic on the back. In favor of Bluetooth and WLAN, no metal was probably possible here, but a slightly higher-quality plastic would have been nice. On the other hand: you don't always look at the back. By the way, what you see here on the side is not a rotating crown, but a menu / on / off button.

Both the link bracelet and the case are made of stainless steel. The Q Founder has no proprietary shit on the side, but a 22-millimeter standard holder, so that thousands of alternatives are available for the included bracelet. Fossil itself also offers the Q Founder with a leather bracelet.

Incidentally, the housing is protected against dust and temporary immersion to a depth of one meter according to IP67. However, I would advise against swimming – the arm movements sometimes cause very high partial pressures.

But what's still in the box? You have already seen the thing here briefly – it is the charging dock that charges the Q Founder wirelessly by induction. There is also a USB cable and a power adapter. Incidentally, the 400 mAh strong battery should allow a runtime of 24 hours.

While the watch is charging, this is shown with red lighting, the battery is full, the color changes to blue. And then there's a pile of documentation here. A tool for shortening the bracelet is unfortunately not included.

So, and now we can already see how the watch welcomes us with a fossil logo and starts Android Wear. Like many other round smartwatches, the Q Founder also has a “plate” – this means this recess in the display in the lower area of ​​the image, which can also be found, for example, in the Moto 360.

Incidentally, the hardware inside comes from Intel. Also on board are an acceleration sensor and a three-axis gyroscope. With this, the Q Founder counts your steps and estimates your calorie consumption. Unfortunately there is no sleep tracker. However, the watch with the 24-hour battery life will probably spend most of the time on the charging dock and not on the wrist.

There is actually not much to say about the operation itself – Android Wear is used here. It is compatible with Android devices from Android 4.4 and iOS devices from iOS 8.2. There is also Bluetooth and WLAN as well as 4 GB of integrated memory. The Fossil Q Founder is now available in stores for 299 euros – you will soon find a detailed Review report on TechStage.com.

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