Fossil Men's Collider Hybrid Smartwatch HR with Always-On Readout Display, Heart Rate, Activity Tracking, Smartphone Notifications, Message Previews

I use and love Apple products. I’ve been tempted by the Apple Watch but don’t like look of them and really didn’t want another distraction to deal with. Having a multi-functional screen in my pocket is already distracting enough and strapping one to my wrist would just make the loss of attention and distraction worse (confirmed by those friends of mine that have one). However, I did want something that would give me minimal notifications so I could see if something were urgent or allow me to get a quick glance at what was causing my pocket to vibrate. Plus I wanted something stylish that looked like jewelry rather than a screen on my arm. Enter the Fossil Hybrid.Rarely do products exceed expectations (Apple is the rare company that pulls this off consistently for me). The Fossil Hybrid has done it. It uses screen technology from decades ago, doesn’t provide any way to create anything, isn’t flashy and can’t so much as muster a single sound to let you know something is happening—and it’s absolutely perfect. It provides exactly enough information for my needs and generates a customizable vibration on my wrist to let me know. If I need to do anything with that information, I pull out my phone. The battery lasts forever before needing a charge, it tracks exercise information extremely well, and it looks fantastic. The screen and three button interface has a bit of a learning curve but once you’re past the curve, it’s intuitive and works well.Even the phone software (I’m on iOS if you didn’t put that together) is super solid. This latter point surprised me since this is a watch company building software. Many software companies don’t build apps this nice. Notification customizations are excellent and it allows you to set lists so only certain people can buzz your watch. The visuals for physical activity are even delightful and informative. It all works very well together and goes far beyond what I expected.The only thing that doesn’t work well consistently is getting the watches backlight to turn on. The instructions say that two gentle taps on the screen should light it up. I still haven’t figured out the combination. I *usually* can get it to work but how many taps and how hard or soft they should be remains a question for the philosophers.Overall a well-built, just-smart-enough device that looks fantastic. Well done Fossil. Keep it up!

It does very few things, but does those really well. It has better battery life than a Wear OS or Apple Watch, by more than a week. It has a better screen than a fitness tracking band for reading notifications, since it is watch with a full face screen instead of some narrow band. It looks tremendously better then a Fitbit Sense, which is the only watch to approach it in terms of both battery life and screen size. It’s very much a niche product but has improved a lot with updates. If you accept it limitations, it’s very impressive. It has no apps. It isn’t waterproof. It doesn’t have a touchscreen, so it is controlled from three buttons along one side. It doesn’t do contactless payments. All these are detractors, but ….. it has better than ten day battery life with its screen always-on. It shows messages and notifications across the whole screen, unlike a Withings or a narrow screen fitness tracker. It has changeable faces since it has a full screen display. It looks fantastic and can be worn with dress clothes without looking out of place (even more so than an Apple Watch IMO). I use the music controls function (which is very reliable) to increase/decrease volume and skip tracks when I wear earbuds that don’t have those controls (i.e. when wearing only one ear bud). Not only don’t I need to take my phone out to do that, but with the push button interface I can do all of those things by feel without even looking at the watch. It rings my phone when I can’t find it. None of what it can do is new to smart watches. It does just enough to make me happy, plus goes ten days between charges, and looks great. This watch is tremendously more useful and convenient now than when it first was introduced, due to several software updates. So, many early reviews don’t do it justice. For example, if you’re a lefty, you can now wear the watch reversed on your right wrist despite the fact that reviews written during the year the watch launched say it doesn’t have that function, which was added during the third update. You can send quick replies to calls that you don't accept, although many reviews were made before that function was added. This has become a very solid option. Sure I wish that I could leave it on in the shower, but I don’t because it isn’t waterproof and it’s glass would fog. What it does, it does well. The fact that the price it half way between a fitness band and a smart watch is appropriate. It does half way between what those two products do.

This watch is cool it works perfectly i got it out of the box last night and it was a 71% charge i charged it up at 100% and from last night to this morning it only lost 3 percent on battery plus there is so many features to play with way better then my other watch i bought from amazon plus the pairing mode was easy one button and the watch was fully sync to my phone very cool watch

Gave this watch as a Christmas present , boyfriend loved it . The material is great it does not feal cheap , very confortable to wear , have to be recharged after 2 weeks which is pretty good , the screen is customizable you can import your own image it really is a nice touch , the app is not very user friendly but after watching YouTube tutorials we understood better how it worked , it is a very nice hybrid watch would reccomand

Cumple con lo prometido y es altamente configurable. Aunque no detecta correctamente los pasos

Es un reloj de manecillas que puedes usar con ropa formal e informal, el diseño es genial y se siente el peso del metal en el extensible. Ahora lo interesante viene en lo digital, tiene una pantalla de e-ink parecido al de la kindle que ves con la luz natural o del ambiente (aunque aparte tiene leds para iluminar la pantalla de noche). Cuando recibes mensajes como de whatsapp las manecillas se ponen a las 9 y a las 3 para dejarte ver en la pantalla quien te escribe y una parte del mensaje. La biometría no es muy exacta pero cumple muy bien un aproximado de frecuencia cardiaca y conteo de pasos. Lo más impresionante es la batería, tengo 7 días usándolo con la carga inicial y aún tiene 43%

Performs as required. The face is highly customizable. Haven’t had it long enough yet to know how long the battery will last before I have to recharge it. Straps are easy to change out. I love it.