Fossil unveils the Gen 5E, its new connected watches

Fossil is a dinosaur in the smartwatch market, which it has been drinking with its products for a good ten years now. Sometimes focused on new trends and sometimes towards more traditional watches, the American giant has now specialized in the manufacture of connected watches running on WearOS, the Android operating system for connected and on-board devices. Fossil has just unveiled the Gen 5E, its new connected watches under WearOS.

Fossil expands its range of watches

Already very well supplied and equipped with an imposing and important catalog, Fossil is taking advantage of the return to school and the approach of the end of the year celebrations to expand its catalog.

With in particular two watches that are quite close visually to what the US brand has accustomed us to. Thus, the Gen 5E are a group of three connected watches equipped respectively with 44mm straps. And 4 watches with 42mm straps. In total, 7 new watches have landed in its catalog. What's new on Fossil Gen 5E watches? First, we notice that the frames of these watches are thinner. As a result, watches can easily be built around the usual 1.19-inch, OLED-like screen. On board the 7 watches we find the same Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100 processor. However, to lower prices Fossil had to review its copy by removing certain features. Thus, the altimeter, the compass and the autonomous GPS are absent subscribers.

Storage side, it will be content with 4 GB For a RAM of 1 GB + a box of 300 mAh. The launch of this armada of connected watches should take place on November 3. What about the prices? Fossil watches are the most luxurious and the most expensive in general. Suddenly, with this Gen 5E series, the firm wanted to address possible buyers of the Apple Watch SE. With a price set at 249 dollars for all its watches. And no surprises in France since the price will also be 249 euros.