NewsDrop: Fossil shows fitness tracker & Android Wear watch

April 20, 2020

The Texas watch manufacturer Fossil makes in wearables – and has announced four products from this segment with the Q series. The Android Wear smartwatch is certainly the most spectacular. But the two fitness wristbands and the discreet wristwatch with integrated notification and fitness functions don't have to hide either.

You can find out what the four wearables Q Founder, Q Grant, Q Dreamer and Q Reveler have on the box in the NewsDrop ehealth.

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After all the usual suspects from the smartphone industry, the watch industry is slowly but surely pulling in on smartwatches. For example, on November 9, Tag Heuer announced its Android watch, and today it was Fossil's turn – with four wearables from the new Fossil Q series!

Q Founder

The most exciting model is certainly the Fossil Q Founder. It is an apparently rather huge Android Wear smartwatch that was developed in collaboration with Intel and – logically – Google. Apart from the operating system, there are unfortunately no technical data. The Q Founder is slated to launch at Christmas time, the suggested retail price is $ 275.

Apparently, however, the Q Founder is struggling with a very similar problem to that of many other round smartwatches: pictures are taking the round that show the watch with the "flat tire", such as the Moto 360 has. The only picture published by Fossil shows the smartwatch with a black watchface in this area – clever Who is discouraged by the size: Fossil told Mashable to also work on a more compact version for women.

Q Grant

The second watch is called Q Grant (they would need Hugh Grant as a media partner). It is a "normal" wristwatch, but it has an integrated fitness tracker and counts the steps of the user, for example.

LEDs integrated in the housing also provide information about notifications from smartphones – and, for example, different colors or different callers should be able to be assigned different colors. There's also a vibration alert. The Q Grant will be available in the United States from October 25, and will cost between $ 175 and $ 195 depending on the bracelet and color.

Like all wearables presented today, the Q Grant works with Apple phones from iPhone 5 and androids from version 4.3. Communication runs via Bluetooth 4.1. The wearables also work with the Fossil app and with Google Fit, Apple Health, Jawbone Up and Under Armor Record.

Q Reveler and Q Dreamer

Finally, Fossil also introduced two wearables. The Q Dreamer is aimed at women, the Q Reveler at men. Apart from the look, the two fitness bracelets are identical, offer the usual tracking functions and push notifications from the smartphone to the wrist. Here and there the price is $ 125.

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