Fossil comes back for seconds with Kors, Misfit Android ar watches

BY GreenBot Staff

Published 23 Mar 2017

Android ar 2.0 is breaking out at Baselworld. After pushing out the new OS to last year’s watches, Fossil announced two new updates to its Q line, Guess announced it will be rolling out a new line of Connect wearables with support for Android ar 2.0. Now we have a couple new Fossil brs that have signed on, including a surprise turn from one of CES’s hottest gadgets.

First up, we have Kors. The follow-up to last year’s Dylan shaw Access watches, the company has announced two new Android ar 2.0 variants, the Sophie for women the Grayson for men. ke the original models, they’re focused on fashion, so no G, NFC, E, or heart-rate sensors. The Sophie features a thin, lightweight case body with a pavé bezel available in eight different plating–bracelet combinations seven quick-release interchangeable straps. The Grayson has a rotating crown for quick scrolling will be offered in gold-tone, stainless steel, blue black ion-plate, with four interchangeable bs.

so aboard the Android ar 2.0 train is Misfit. At CES in nuary, its Vapor smartwatch was one of the more interesting gadgets on display, mostly because of its proprietary navigation that featured a touch-sensitive bezel. Instead of swiping scrolling, you move your fingertip over the app icons surrounding the watch face to see live previews. en you find the one you want, you can tap the preview to jump into the app.

ile it has switched to Android ar, Misfit says the touch bezel will still be supported (a first for an Android ar watch), as well as a unique customizable watch face, G, real-time location activity tracking, an optical heart-rate sensor. It comes in jet black rose gold varieties, will cost $199 when released in late summer.

icing wasn’t released for the Kors watches, but the company is targeting a holiday 2017 release.

tch this space: The Android ar 2.0 launch isn’t going exactly as we thought it would. The two flagships from were underwhelming, the anticipated Huawei tch 2 left us equally unimpressed. Now we have a flurry of fashion watches that don’t support Android y leave off some of the better fitness benefits. Some day we’ll get the perfect Android ar 2.0 watch, but for now you’ll need to pick choose from the features you want the ones you can live without.