Fossil’s Newest Gen 6 Smartwatches Get An Alexa Upgrade

Earlier this year, Fossil promised to convey Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant to its smartwatches. Well, the vow has ultimately been fulfilled. Fossil has introduced that the Gen 6 smartwatches can now stir up Alexa and get matters executed with only a voice command. Alexa is now on the disposal of oldsters rocking a Fossil Gen 6, Skagen Falster Gen 6, Fossil x Razer, and the state-of-the-art smartwatches from its Michael Kors portfolio.

However, it’s miles uncertain while the Alexa improve remedy may also be given to older Wear OS smartwatches provided through the Fossil Group. In order to summon Alexa at the supported Fossil hardware, customers have 3 options. The first one is to release the devoted Alexa app that comes pre-hooked up at the Fossil Gen 6 smartwatches. In fact, Alexa help has been enabled on those smartwatches thru an replace to the app, which has up to now handiest flashed a “coming soon” message.

Ecosystem makes up for ability gap

The 2nd choice to get admission to Alexa is thru the devoted tile shortcut that may be accessed through swiping left on the house screen. Those who need an excellent greater handy alternative can installation a pusher shortcut to release Alexa with the click of a button. It is really well worth noting right here that the 

Alexa app handiest pairs with telephones with legit Google Play help, which leaves Huawei telephones out of the equation right here. Additionally, Amazon’s assistant might not be of any use if the linked telecellsmartphone occurs to run the stripped-down Go Edition of Android.

Of course, launching the app for the primary time will ask customers to furnish it some permissions which includes microphone get admission to, and an Amazon account linkage is likewise required. A key downside as compared to Google Assistant is that Alexa on Fossil Gen 6 smartwatches lacks the always-on listening trick. 

However, Fossil guarantees to enhance the enjoy withinside the foreseeable future. On the brilliant side, bringing Alexa into the fold additionally method greater seamless manage over a extensive variety of Alexa-powered clever domestic devices.