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Fossil won’t upgrade existing watches to the revamped Wear OS – Yahoo Finance Australia
Fossil is working on a ‘premium’ Gen 6 smartwatch, but it won’t upgrade Gen 5 models to the redesigned Wear OS from Google and Samsung.

Don’t assume your current Wear OS smartwatch will benefit from Google’s team-up with Samsung. Fossil executives Greg McKelvey and Steve Prokup told CNET in an interview that the company’s existing Wear OS watches won’t get upgrades to the reworked software. Your Fossil Gen 5 will likely be stuck with an aging interface, unfortunately.
If you want Fossil wristwear using the latest software, you’ll have to pay. McKelvey said the company was planning a lone “premium” Fossil watch (Gen 6?) to lead the…
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