1 generation 5 has a few upgrades over the
original generation 4 including a new
battery mode for longer lasting.
2 performance a proper speaker for your
output a speed upgrade more storage and
quite a few other little updates. over
that generation 4 so we're gonna give it
a full unboxing right now get it all set
up and check out that hardware and
software and for more on the latest and
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first up there is the fossil watching
all of its glory squeeze it on out there
give a manual a bit of a manual a
friggin huge manual bowed away at the
bottom I'm assuming it's in all of the
languages inside of this little side
compartment you do have the actual
charger cable itself as you can see here
it is of course a proprietary charger so
similar to the likes of the Apple watch
as all you need to do is just stick the
watch on there should be a magnetic
connection as you can see just sticks on
there and seems to hold pretty firmly
touchwood and then just plug the other
ends basically either into a plug
adapter or laptop or something else that
provides power and then you're good to
go so I've given the fossil watch a good
bit of a chargin and now we're gonna get
all set up so what you'll need for this
is basically just a smartphone with a
bit of wear or s downloaded from in this
case the Google Play Store but if you've
got so an iPhone you can also get it on
the go up from the app store as well
just hit start setup agree to all the
usual T's and C's alright so there we go
tap to begin yeah and there we got we
have got the watch in action and now
just copying the Google accounts across
to the watch will be able to access all
of our calendar information meals or
that kind of stuff actually through the
watch itself just like with more
smartwatches so just like the fossil
generation 5 on my wrist and as you can
see there again for a SmartWatch fairly
skinny and slender there but there's
definitely got a decent heft to it as
well as Stephanie doesn't feel like a
plastic hollow toy or anything like that
which is definitely nice it's a 44
millimeter kit made of stainless steel
you can actually get it in a few
different colors this is of course the
black model but if you prefer more
vibrant more lighter color and a few of
those are on offer as well with a
selection of straps to boot this is of
course a silicone strap and thankfully
it's very very easy to
replaced if you want to as well as it's
just a standard 22 ml as you can see
there and so you got to do is just pull
this little doohickey here whoop and
straight off slap another one on maybe a
bit of a leather effort if you're gonna
hit the town it was the one downfall of
taking this thing off the show is it is
is that I can never actually get it back
on again array oh come on you're live oh
there we go beautiful managed it
strength trim nothing that's gonna
happen anytime soon loop as the fossil
SmartWatch generation 5 is of course
water resistant as usual water resistant
up to 3 atmospheres so you can do a good
bit of swimming snorkeling all that kind
of shenanigans in it and that's despite
the fact that has actually got a
built-in speaker now as well thankfully
that retains the water resistance with
that speaker set up so you can use that
basically for instance if you use the
Google assistance so what's the weather
goingto be like today so our volume is
quite low but if you dive into the
settings you can of course just give it
a quick boost so media volume and stick
it right on the top setting and then try
that again what's the weather goingto be
like today yeah so as you can see not
the best quality speaker at all quite
fuzzy quite stuttery and very very tinny
indeed but for something like the Google
Earth system it'll be fine you can also
take phone calls on this because of
course as you've seen it's got a
built-in mic as well so you know if
there's just something quick and simple
like that it'll do the job you of course
have three side buttons here as always
just how quite away so they're quite
easy to find even in the dark or
something like that
you've got your main button here in the
middle which can be used to conjure up
the apps menu so that's just all of the
apps you have pre installed here on the
fossil SmartWatch generation 5 and
another quick tap and I just takes you
back to the home screen the other two
buttons are fully customizable so what
you can do is just dive on into the
settings go to personalize this and I
believe it is yes here we've got and
then dive into customize hardware
buttons and you can basically set them
to be one of your existing apps and
again as with previous smartwatches from
the fossil Brander you get a nice bit of
built-in NFC so you can do a good bit of
Google peer action as you can see there
could I'll set up and that'll just be
for your quick contactless payments very
handy indeed you've got built-in Wi-Fi
in there as well
so you can just download fresh google
apps from the the Google Play Store
without having to tether to your
smartphone or anything like that that
means you should also hopefully be able
to receive notifications and everything
again even when you're not hooked up
there's GPS support in there as well so
it can track your movements when you're
out for a bit of a run and you've left
your phone at home just to sort of
lighten the load a bit if you just slip
this bad boy off my wrist again as well
you'll see there's a full heart rate
monitor on there as well and it allows
you to do constant heart rate monitoring
throughout the day and so just passively
in the background or of course you've
got the cardiogram feature and
everything actually on the watch itself
I actually get a bloody thing back on my
wrist as you can see there the
cardiogram feature just give that little
tap and you can get a instant readout on
your heart rate as you can see I'm
really enjoying doing this video
eighty-four sixty times as for the
display it's a 1.3 inch AMOLED screen I
do tend to like the fossil display as
they're quite so punchy nice and crisp
but they haven't actually mentioned the
resolution of this one but I believe
it's 395 390 the same as the generation
4 so I think it's not tiny text is
perfectly legible really nice stuff and
those colors really do shine as well I
really do like it
hopefully should prove bright enough
it's not super bright in the moment you
kind of course customize it by going
into the display settings and then
adjusting brightness so it's just on
automatic at the moment if we punch it
up to 5 that certainly seems a lot
brighter
so hopefully touch what it'll do the job
on a sunny day I'm just gonna stick it
back on automatic of course you've got
the sunlight boost which is on as well
and you can change the font size and
what kind of shenanigans as well but
yeah so far seems very nice and the
viewing angles as you can see they're
very strong as well so if you're looking
at it just from an awkward angle all
goods the rest of where OS here on the
fossil generation 5 SmartWatch is pretty
standard I'll give you a quick tour if
you're not all fair with it so you got
you mean watch face right there which
you can of course pretty customize just
by tapping and holding Oh
if you don't screw it up like I just did
there we go and you've got a variety of
the choose form and of course you can
download more at any point actually
quite like them in fossil watch face I
think that's quite snazzy and gives you
access to some useful and for swipe down
to access the settings menu and also a
few quick toggles such as as you can see
they can mute it airplane mode they're
hard to serve battery saver and you can
actually check out the battery life
let's remain and as well so what
we're for fast access to Google
assistant and lots of pertinent
information including the weather what
your next calendar event is and some
quick toggles as well such as the
ability to quickly play music start a
workout things like that stop this way
and you've got access to Google tiles so
as you can see there there's my fitness
theater after know what than 264 steps
today super fit weather calendar
information and so on and so on and of
course you can change up the tiles
things customize exactly what is
displayed and then swipe up to access
your notifications or just all of the
messages emails things like that that's
come in as you can see that I've got my
all of security system it's just given
me warnings there so all kinds of stuff
so that's really really useful to just
swipe away anything that you're not
bothered about and one of the new
features here on the generation 5
fossile SmartWatch is of course a new
battery mode so before you had dearly
custom and time or they now you've got
the extended version as well which you
can apparently give you multiple days of
use from just a single charge so kind of
fit in between the daily and the time on
the efforts time only of course will
literally just give you the time so it's
quite good if you're going on like a
long-haul flight something like that you
literally only care about what hour it
is and that's about it if we hit the
extended one as you can see there it
says turns on essential features when
you need them intended for charging
every few days and the details as you
can see the Bluetooth shuts off at night
you've got the light so the always off
screen and the speaker actually
deactivated the Wi-Fi as well location
tracking so you don't have many of the
main features there and see shut off so
yeah so as you can see it is quite
clearly designed to should have all but
the most essential features which you
know not great if you're gonna get smart
watch then you kind of want those
features active but you know what if if
you're going to be going away camping
all weekend you've got no access to a
blog or anything but you don't just a
resort to the time or any more than I
guess that's an alternative personally I
just prefer the custom to be perfectly
honest which just allows you to tweak
all of the various features as you want
as you can see there I've got most of
them active I'm going to be testing it
with most of the functionality on the go
and actually see how good that battery
life is if it actually holds up at the
moment I'm already down to 80% and
haven't been using it very long so well
Sayoko sometimes it takes a few days for
these things to bed in you also now have
8 gigabytes of storage for plenty of
apps and the rest so ya know if you want
to download tons of stuff on there as
you can see got quite a few
pre-installed anyways you've got usual
fitness stuff you look a bit of Nike run
Club that's for the performance it's new
Snapdragon wear 30 100 bucks buy a
whopping one gigabyte of ram I know it
sounds strange to say a whopping one
gigabyte but actually much smaller that
is pretty rare normally half a gig is
the sort of maximum you see so far touch
word that performance is absolutely
stunning off stammers or stutters or
anything quick tap of a button and
you're not really waiting around for a
response
the touchscreen seems nice and
responsive so yeah fingers crossed this
might be one of the best performance
smartwatches out there and there you
have it that right there is the new
fossil generation 5 SmartWatch for men
as far as you can see it comes in a
variety of different styles packed some
really nice performance in there great
water resistance the most punchy AMOLED
display and plenty of functionality as
well as the fingers crossed it will
prove a worthy alternative to the likes
of the Apple watch should be fancy a bit
of wear or s cost hundred 79 quid you
can pick it up in the UK right now and
stay tuned for my in-depth review after
about a week or sort of use to see if
it's going to be your next SmartWatch so
Cheers Readin everyone please do let
us know your thoughts down below if
you're tempted by the old gen 5 we've
got the Gen 4 are you thinking of
upgrade and deaf would be great to hear
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