Fossil Women's Smartwatch - Sport Metal & Silicone Band, Heart Rate Monitor, GPS, NFC, Touchscreen, Smartphone Notifications - Perfect for Fitness Tracking, Workouts & Everyday Wear

I have owned this product a year now, and I would say it's just okay. After having a Fitbit for years, I wanted something that had more than fitness tracking. This does all that including email, text messages, slack, and app notifications. It's really useful if you don't want to have your phone on you all day.My main complaint is with the fitness tracking. The step count does not update as frequently as I would like, and nowhere near how quickly my Fitbit would update. Also, over the last month or so, toward the late afternoon, my step count on the watch actually jumps backward for awhile. I thought it was from connectivity issues with my phone, and I tried restarting it as well as opening and closing the Wear OS and Google fit app on my phone to no avail. My phone had an accurate step count, but not the watch! After a few hours it goes back to normal, but this is strange and frustrating when I'm trying to reach a step count every day and all of a sudden I go from 8,000 steps to 5,000.Also, the battery life is terrible. I have to charge it every night no matter what, so there's no way I can track my sleep. The charger being proprietary means if you forget it and say, go on vacation, it won't be easy to find another one.The watch face also doesn't always turn on when you rotate your wrist. And sometimes it just freezes and you have to put it back on the charger to restart.Other than that, it's comfortable and does its job for the most part, however I don't think I'd buy it again.I have had this watch for two weeks and I absolutely love it. I did a LOT of research before buying this, and due to a lot of negative reviews, I was quite nervous about making the purchase. If I weren't so firmly entrenched in the Google/Android ecosystem, I would've gone with the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active. But since I use Android, Google pay, Google Play Music, etc., I decided going with Wear OS would be worth it.Plenty of people complain about the battery life on this thing, but I think it's all about what you plan to use it for. I use this as I believe a smartwatch is intended: to receive and occasionally respond to notifications throughout the day without using a phone, and to track workouts. I am able to track a 60 minute workout every day, play music while working out, and view and respond to about 50 notifications per day. My battery life after 13 hours of this reads 40% and would easily get me through any full day. Worth noting: the Google Keep app was inexplicably draining my battery to 0% within about 5 hours, but I removed the app and now battery life is great.I love that I can leave my phone at home and still track a workout while listening to music that's downloaded onto the watch via Google Play Music. I use Google Fit to track my workouts and it is very convenient! I use to use a timer on my phone and have to log the workout and weight I was using. Google Fit detects what lift I am doing, and I input the weight, then it starts a timer to tell me when to start my next set.I also think the watch is beautiful. I am a man with very small wrists (slightly larger than 6 inches). I was afraid to get any smart watch, since I've tried other 41mm watches that look huge on me. The Fossil Sport manages to look sleeker than other 41mm watches, and I am comfortable wearing it daily.The software isn't always super fast, but again, it does what I expect it to do. Google Assistant is great at understanding voice commands, so it is very easy to send texts with your voice instead of typing.If you expect a watch that will basically be a phone on your wrist, that you can play with all day long - look elsewhere. But if you want a smartwatch to be an extension of your phone - to help you see quick notifications, have access to Google Assistant, workout tracking, etc., then this will be a fantastic watch for you.I have had this watch for around 6 months now. Overall I haven't stopped using it/haven't gotten a new version. It works for what I need, that said... it could work so very much better. I purchase this one specifically because I knew it would work with my pixel phone and I didn't need to run it through my phone plan.Things I like- choose your own watch face, replaceable straps (technically), water-resistant, no phone plan needed, pairs with my pixel phone, wasn't near as expensive as many others I looked at, had the main apps I needed/wanted (notification alerts), alarm and timer functions, heart rate, ring phone (to find phone), google pay.Things that this doesn't have (or are badly done) that I assumed wrongfully were on all smartwatches - the ability to talk on a call on the phone through the watch (answer/hang-up calls only), longer battery life (this causes a few problems),I charge my watch every night to wear during the day, it doesn't take a terrible long time to charge but it does require taking the watch off to charge. For this reason, I never can utilize the sleep tracking function. It is possible to charge it a couple of times a day and wear it at night, but by the time I think of that it is too late. The battery life is pretty bad. In order for the watch to actually last me a whole day, I have to have it on one of the power save settings where it shuts off between glances. (a flick of my wrist lights the face, so that part isn't terrible). I have notifications only truly being used throughout the workday, if I don't have it set to time out it lasts almost from 8:30-5pm.None of my frustrations are structural in nature, or Fossil issues, but rather the tech they were given. It would be interesting to see how much better newer models are with batteryThis is my first smartwatch, so i don't have any comparison reference. But it's good not great, battery is less than good. Sometimes slow, sometime buggy wear OS issue.But overall i love it. Display is great. Extremely light weight. Very comfortable. And looks cool in hand.Great watch synchronisation with my Nokia phone is perfect. Love Google apps. I can control audible through my watch and listen through my wireless headphones so my phone can even be in another room whilst I control with my watch. I can send messages using my watch. Some complain about it not tracking exercise, it's not always perfect whilst out on my 10km run but when it gets back it syncs and I can see my whole run using the app on my phone so it does take all the info as you run. I ditched my Fitbit for this watch and I'm really glad I did I can use any watch strap so wrist size is irrelevant as I can put on a standard strap. The battery life is only for one day, but as I charge my phone at night I put my watch on charge at the same time. But it will work just as a watch and then it will last much longer. So on holiday i can use it as a watch. I can change the screen and personalise it with my own photo. I can wear it in the shower or swimming. I can answer messages through teams app which everyone at my work is now using and I can check texts discretly in meetings and even give a quick reply meaning I don't miss important messages or worry what the vibrations of my phone was about. Out on the run it works beautifully with sounds app which I can store music on my watch and run without my phone, or just sync it to my phone and scroll through songs change volume etc. I love this watch it used to take me ages to get my Fitbit to sync with my phone the apps and song play with my phone never worked properly and I asked Fitbit for help, they're answer was they can't guarantee compatibility. Well fossil have got it right, my Nokia phone works perfectly and I get full functionality!! Never going back!! Ps. My wrist is 6" or 15cm circumference.This is an amazing product and has the best OS of all the smart watches then android users can use. It really comfortable to wear.ProsWear OS (Loads of apps available from the app store)Heart rate monitor is almost precise compared to my series 4 iwatchLoads of workout options availableSwimproof (Haven't tested it yet but managed well in heavy rains)Good number of watch faces and you can find more on app storeSleek designConsProcessor runs on an old architecture so it tends to be slow at times.Tilt to wake works 75% of the timeBattery life isn't good. It's at most a one day Smartwatch and 2 day normal watch without any smart featuresIt's my first smartwatch and I hope it lasts for long time. I wanted to buy the Gear S3 but the device gets water damages pretty easily and the cost of repair itself would be about 10.5k so I chose this one over the latter.Overall it's a good smart watch with good specs for the price. Will update if anything out of the ordinary comes my way.I so wanted to like this watch but ultimately it was returned.The good bits.... the hardware is really nice, the build quality good and the screen excellent. Charges very quickly and the whole package looks great.The bad.... Wear OS. It took a good hour of messing to get set up and everything enabled including a software update. Every app has to have boxes checked and permissions enabled. I didn’t load many 3rd party apps or watch faces on as I was still getting to grips with it but the watch was slow in comparison to a Galaxy Watch or Fitbit. In the end I lost patience with the lags and delays in loading apps and it has been returned.If Google could sort out Wear OS this would be a great watch but as it stands personally not for me.BUT they are currently selling these for £89 and if you don’t want or need all the bells and whistles then the price (at least 50% less than anything else) alone makes it something you might want to consider.Horrible watch . I have used my friend fosiil smart watch it works fine but the one I got is horrible very slow doesn't respond and Google fit is not good and it's a complete waste if you use it with an iPhone