The 1.2-inch AMOLED display on the Fossil Sport is sharp and bright enough to see in direct sunlight. The Fossil Sport’s redesigned Wear OS is a huge improvement over the previous user interface. Google Assistant also feels faster when loading results after you ask a question or give it a command. Unfortunately, apps like Spotify and Weather do still take a while to load, but they’re slightly quicker than with the older chip.
Scrolling feels much smoother and there’s no longer any lag when looking through the menu or sorting through notifications. The new Snapdragon Wear 3100 doesn’t bring groundbreaking improvements, but they’re noticeable. With the Snapdragon 2100, we never experienced any glaring performance issues but there are some things to be aware of – we typically encountered lag when scrolling through the main menu and apps were slow to load. Slightly improved performance, nice display For the most part, we stuck to the “Essential Digital” watch face, which gives us the date, time, calendar alerts, our heart-rate, and notification alerts. With the addition of the heart-rate sensor and Google’s redesigned Wear OS, Fossil added three watch faces that integrate Google Fit to allow you to check on your progress throughout the day. There are also plenty of pre-installed watch faces to choose from, most of which are customizable when it comes to switching up the color scheme and complications to show whatever you’d like, such as step count, weather, Google Pay (with an NFC chip built into the watch, you can use it to make contactless payments), and more. Holding down the crown also triggers Google Assistant. Rather than having to scroll through with your finger on the display, you can use the crown to navigate menus and notifications. We set our top pusher to trigger the weather and the bottom to trigger Google Fit.
On the side are three pushers - a rotating crown and two buttons that can be used to trigger shortcuts. But for a “sport” smartwatch, it does look much sleeker than others on the market like the Garmin Fenix 5X or the Mobvoi Ticwatch S.
For $255, the design cheapens the look a bit and we would have preferred the entire case be one color to give the smartwatch a more seamless look. We aren’t fans of the two-tone design the nylon base is white while the aluminum top and watch band are both blush. There are also plenty of pre-installed watch faces to choose from, most of which are customizable.
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