Last week, Fossil officially unveiled its new hybrid smartwatch in the Indian market. The latest smartwatch is dubbed the Fossil Gen 6 Hybrid. This Hybrid Fossil watch comes with a classical design. The all-new Fossil Gen 6 smart watch succeeds the aging Fossil Gen 5 smartwatch. Furthermore, it offers features like Amazon Alexa Voice assistant, SpO2 blood oxygen tracking, and other smart notifications. The new Fossil Hybrid is a unisex smartwatch.
The latest smartwatch range comes in two sizes with different design patterns – Machine and Stella. The Fossil Machine model of the smartwatch features a 45mm dial with three colour variations. In contrast, the Fossil Stella watch variant features a smaller 40.5mm dial and is also offered in three distinct colorways. The Gen 6 Hybrid smartwatch also features customizable watch faces. Furthermore, it also comes with interchangeable Fossil bands, featuring leather and silicone watch straps. The Fossil Hybrid smartwatch also comes with a Bracelet style strap variant.
Fossil Gen 6 Hybrid smartwatch price in India
The all-new Fossil Gen 6 Hybrid watches start at Rs 17633 for India’s leather and silicone strap variants. The Bracelet style smart watch variant of the Gen 6 Hybrid comes with a price tag of Rs 19173. For the availability in markets, the Hybrid smartwatch is available for purchase via the official Fossil India website and other retail stores. Also Read – Fossil Gen 6 smartwatch, the Android Wear with Google OS 3, Amazon Alexa support
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Color Options
As mentioned above, the Fossil Gen 6 Hybrid smartwatch comes in two distinct designs. Here, the Fossil Gen 6 Hybrid Machine watch comes in three different colour options – Black, Silver, and Smoke. In contrast, the Fossil Gen 6 Hybrid Stella watch is available in Black, Rose Gold, and silver colorways.
Both Fossil Hybrid smart watch variants are available in a 3-link bracelet, mesh bracelet, leather strap, or silicone strap options. This Hybrid smartwatch can also be purchased with a brushed strap option. Furthermore, the interchangeable Fossil straps and bracelets are available with multiple 24mm and 18mm size options, respectively. Also Read – Xiaomi Mi smart watch Lite specs, launch date details, price in India
Fossil Gen 6 Hybrid: Specifications
Meanwhile, this latest Gen 6 Hybrid smartwatch has a circular dial design. Here, the watch dials are available in 45mm and 40.5mm. The Fossil smartwatch also comes with 16MB of onboard storage in terms of storage options. It sports three side-mounted buttons for navigation through the smartwatch.
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Fossil Watch: Display
Here, the display on the Machine variant watch offers a Pixel density of 218PPI, whereas the Stella watch variant offers 254PPI pixel density. The Gen 6 Hybrid also features an all-new dashboard with a revised UI that provides an easy experience. The new dashboard also includes an app launcher, exercise selection panels, and the ability to open applications directly from the home screen. Also Read – Noise ColorFit Pro 3 with SpO2 Oxygen sensor; How to track sleep in Noise ColorFit Pro 3?
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Fossil Watch: Hardware
Under the hood, the new models of the Fossil Hybrid smartwatches are powered by the Fossil Q Intel Atom processors. Meanwhile, the Hybrid smartwatch is a downgrade from the Fossil Gen 6 smartwatch, which comes with Qualcomm Snapdragon 4100+ processor.
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Fossil Watch: Connectivity
Regarding connectivity, the new Hybrid smartwatch comes with Bluetooth v5, Wi-Fi, and Tethered GPS. This Alexa smartwatch also comes with various other alert notifications like alters for the calendar, social media alerts, calling and message alerts, and alarms. Furthermore, the Fossil Gen 6 Hybrid range is 3 ATM water-resistant. Also Read – RedmiBook Pro 14, RedmiBook Pro 15 laptop launch date details in India
This time, the smartwatch makers have redesigned their companion app to offer more personalization options. In this update, the new at-a-glance metrics have also been updated. Now, it will also show a complete overview of the activities like walking, running, sleeping, etc. Furthermore, it will also show details about workouts and other health metrics on one screen.
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Fossil Watch: Battery
The smartwatch makers claims that the Fossil Gen 6 Hybrid battery can easily last for up to two weeks on a single complete charge depending on the style and usage. Meanwhile, the latest Fossil Gen 6 Hybrid watch comes with sport for a magnetic charger that charges the wearable from 0% to 80% in 60 minutes.
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Other Key Highlighting features
The new range of hybrid smartwatches comes with built-in Amazon Alexa support. It can be accessed via a dedicated microphone for hands-free assistance, and the wearable will then display Alexa’s response on the screen. The all-new Fossil Gen 6 Hybrid also comes with Blood Oxygen Saturation (SpO2) monitoring and heart rate tracking along with an accelerometer.
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Fossil Smartwatch Customizable Watch Faces
The latest wearable from Fossil also comes with multiple new customizable watch faces. As usual, these watch faces can also be customized using the Fossil smartwatch app, which is available on Android and iOS platforms. Also Read – Fossil Gen 5e smartwatch, Specifications, features, price in India
Fossil Gen 6 Hybrid: Unboxing
The Hybrid Gen 6 smartwatch is available in two models, each with three distinct color options. As mentioned above, the smartwatch also comes with different interchangeable Fossil straps. Looking at the front of the box, we can easily see the smartwatch inside the retail box.
Meanwhile, the smartwatch looks beautiful inside the transparent top lid on its packaging, which means we can see the smartwatch without opening the box packaging. Like other Fossil watches, the Gen 6 Hybrid has sharp looks and edges around the circular dial. At the top of the retail box, it is mentioned that the watch is indeed iPhone and Android compatible.
Furthermore, the Fossil Gen 6 Hybrid retail box looks much cleaner with a transparent top lid and a White theme design on the sides and back of the box. The back side of the retail box mentions some key features and specifications of the smartwatch. On opening the retail box, we see the Gen 6 Hybrid. Additionally, we also get a charging cable with a magnetic charger. Besides this, the retail box contains some expected documentation.
