Following the Fossil Gen 6 Hybrid, the Fossil Skagen brand has launched its own Gen 6 hybrid smartwatch, offering the same great new features built into a range of typically minimalist aspects of Skagen watches.
The Skagen Jorn Gen 6 Hybrid compatible with Android and iOS comes in five different versions, with the option of silver, rose gold, charcoal and black.
There are 38mm and 42mm case size options within reach and they all offer the same combination of e-Ink display and mechanical hands to combine the world of traditional and smart watches.
The larger 42mm watch is paired with 20mm removable straps and the 38mm hybrid uses smaller 18mm ones. You can choose from stainless steel mesh, silicone or leather straps.
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These added intelligences include Amazon Alexa integration, which is made possible by a new built-in microphone, which allows you to set timers, reminders, and get answers to questions. The lack of a speaker means that these answers will be displayed instead of answered.
There is the promise of an improved heart rate sensor to improve the accuracy of continuous heart rate monitoring, while a new SpO2 sensor will allow you to monitor blood oxygen levels for the first time.
Along with the improvements to the watch, the companion phone app is also changing its image with a new interface, the ability to customize dials on the e-Ink screen, view tracking statistics on an activity dashboard and assign different functions to the physical buttons.
All the features included in the Skagen Jorn Hybrid HR are kept here, so it’s a hybrid smartwatch that can track outdoor workouts using connected GPS, count steps, monitor heart rate, display smartphone notifications, weather reports, and use it to track your phone when it does. disappears.
The promised battery life is up to two weeks, which are the same battery life numbers tied to Skagen’s latest hybrid smartwatch, which we found lasted for a week with all the smart features in use.
The price of all versions of the Skagen Jorn Gen 6 Hybrid is $ 215 / £ 209, which is slightly more expensive than the $ 195.95 / £ 189 launch price attached to the Skagen Jorn Hybrid HR. This is cheaper than Fossil’s own Gen 6 Hybrid, so you could save yourself some money by picking up these new smart features.
While we loved the look of Skagen’s latest hybrid, we don’t share the same love for some of the awkward software we experienced during our tests.
Sure, it’s great to see that great features like Alexa and sensors like SpO2 will give more smart powers to Skagen’s hybrid, but hopefully some of these software issues have also been resolved to make it worthwhile. inclusion.