Fossil Hybrid Smartwatches

Im in love with this watch. Im an optician and recently we made a huge purshase of fossil frames and as a gift they gave me a fossil q hybrid watch... i have it for a week now and im in love. But! There are some features i miss and love to have to make it whole, things that i think are easy to add. As an optician i use the timer on my phone a LOT! so it would be nice to have that feature in my watch also, so with a button i can start the countdown... also... a snooze feature for the alarms, cause sometimes i put an alarm to remind me to call a patient for example but at the moment the alarm goes off im busy i could postpone it... the ability to put name to the customize goals and maybe the ability to track every single goal by its own... that one could be more difficult but ypu get the gist of it. I really think that what u guys are doing is super cool but a couple more things would make it awesome... i hope you sometime take at least one of my ideas

I’m a bit old school, don’t really like the tech these days. Resistant, you could say. But I, like most, am leashed to my cell phone. With a family, and career. I need to be connected. I wanted a watch with hands and minutes and numbers like the old days. While shopping the fossil site. This watch caught my attention. Simply with classic style and primitive low key posture. Then as I read further I saw it was a smart watch! DANG, I thought.. I just wanted a plain classic watch. Well after getting it because of its beauty. I went ahead and paired it to my phone. WOW! I love it! It’s given me freedom I forgot we had. And the ‘Ring my phone” feature is BRILLIANT!!! For a busy guy like me, it’s been a fantastic distraction! I’ll never get stuck in an unwanted conversation again! “Oh, excuse me, I gotta take this call!” We’ll catch up later! Steve out!

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Every few weeks, the app refuses to sync data with my watch and suddenly drops it. The notifications still work, so it often takes me a while to notice. At that point a month of data is missing, which is the whole reason I was interested in this watch. Thankfully, each time this has happened I have eventually been able to get the watch to sync again and restore the missing stats by essentially playing with it for a half hour—turning my phone on and off, turning Bluetooth on and off, removing it from my Bluetooth menu so that the app prompts me to add it again, etc. However, this has been very frustrating. The app has also permanently shown a low battery sign after the first time I replaced it, which means it gives me no indication of the actual battery life and I have to guess at when that really needs to be changed. This watch would be a much better purchase if the app were more cooperative. It doesn’t seem to be very well integrated.

I’ve wanted to get into smart watches in the last year but have not had chance to buy (plus they are expensive still, for me). I decided to give Fossil Hybrid Watch a try - as an introductions to smart watches. So far - I love it! Its simple and provides me with the information I need to stay notified. The app itself is simple, aesthetically pleasing, and intuitive. The only improvement I would add the watch is to include more options for notifications on the Hybrid watch. For ex: I am not allowed to adjust my watch to notify me whenever I receive an iMessage. I can adjust it to notify when a specific person on my contacts writes to me, but no general messages (however, I am allowed to include all messages from Whatsapp so it is a slight gripe). Anyway, I would recommend a Fossil smartwatch to anyone seeking a clean looking watch with minimal features (or anyone looking to breakaway from the Samsung/Apple)

The whole point of the hybrid watch is that it has some “smart” functionalities that can be set and tracked with the app. I would like to see a wider variety of smart functions. It also tends to be quite buggy. I love the music control option, but I often find my phone randomly starts playing music, and since the last update the music control doesn’t work at all. It also seems that the step and sleep tracking is pretty inaccurate. I was really hoping the hybrid watch and app would work well, but there’s still a few things that need to be worked out. EDIT: Apprciate the developer response and fix to the bugs, the music function works again. Still would love additional functionalities, but I’m happy that the app gets updated to make sure things are working.