Apple watch series 4 vs Fossil Gen 5 (Battle of the smartwatch GIANTS) By Mac's Tech Toy Box

What's up everyone max tech toy box here, and today we're doing a video comparison between The Impossible generation, 5 Smartwatch and the Apple Watch Series for some bigger fighters in this Smartwatch arena. So, let's see which one of them deserves a spot on your wrist. So as always, we have to talk about the price the foster generation, 5 Smartwatch is coming in at about $2.99 at lunch, and you can get it probably for the low 200s currently and the Apple Watch Series for when it was launched. This is the stainless steel version with GPS and cellular I paid around 750 close to 800 bucks, so definitely on the higher end of the spectrum. But again this version does also come with cellular. So that means that you can make phone calls.

If you do have it connected to a plan, the FAST generation 5. You do not have that ability. So next up, we have to talk about the design, so the Apple Watch Series for you either love it or you hate. It me personally, I do like that. AMOLED display that sort of score goal type.

Looking design, it's been refined over the years since Apple originally launched it with this series, one, and it's sort of grown I mean I, really like it. A lot. I think this is a very nice looking device. Unfortunately, because of that, look that means that, if you're wearing this, that means that everyone will know that you are wearing an Apple Watch, that's either fortunate or unfortunate. If you wanted to have something a little more incognito with just a regular circle design, you don't get that with the Apple Watch on the right hand, side you do have your digital crown that you can use throughout navigating the entire operating system, which is very nice.

You also have your side button, which sort of brings up your previous apps that you can close out of and then, of course, with the digital crown, you can also select applications on the back right side. You also have the microphone which is cool and then on the left side. Furthermore, you have a speakerphone which has two notches here. Speakerphone quality is fairly good. Unfortunately, with the speakerphone, you cannot listen to music.

The only way to listen to music directly from the watch is, if you have Bluetooth headphones connected, but you cannot listen to music directly from the watch just with the speakerphone, but you can't take phone calls from the watch to that speakerphone. Turning things over around back, you do have your optically based heart rate, monitors I, would say one of at least in my testing. The most accurate optically based heart rate, monitor that I've seen still not as good as a chest. Heart rate monitor, as you guys will see me lament and all of my videos, but one of the best, if not the best optically based heart rate, monitors around back and then, of course, with this you do have one portion of your EKG. This part has to contact your skin and then your finger touching on the digital crown activates the rest of the EKG, so that you can get that reading.

This also does use wireless charging think it's me fee, I'm, not 100% sure, but it's not the QI standard. It's apples, proprietary, wireless charging, standard charges fairly, okay, we'll get to that in a second, and then you have your proprietor eyes, wrist straps as well, fairly easy, quick release. From being honest when you are taking these on and off in comparison to the standard, 22 millimeter wide straps. Those are super easy to do. However, these are just easier because you just want to slide it right in, and you're done, you just press the button, you release it, and you slide another pair in with the other ones.

You have to sort of pull that pin back, and you have to match the sides. Those are also super easy. Don't get me wrong, but this is just easier because it's less um, less minutia you sort of have to go through so yeah. So that's the way that the Apple Watch Series four looks now: let's talk about the fossil generation, five, so with the fossil generation. Five you do have that beautiful AMOLED display the one that I have here is black and gold.

I love that design I, like the contrast of those colors on your right hand, side you get that standard sort of three button layouts with your selector I guess you could say that middle button you can use to a munch or apps or app drawer, and you can sort of scroll through parts of the operating system. With this as well, and it's also your universal back button, and then you have your two click launch buttons where you can have those set up to open up certain applications that you wanted to open up. Those are customizable, which is cool. Also, on that right side. You have a microphone and then on your left side, you have a speakerphone only one grill here, but again the speakerphone on this is also pretty good.

When I've taken phone calls, people couldn't even it even know that I was placing the phone call through my Smartwatch. Now this is Bluetooth only Bluetooth and GPS, it's not cellular. So you do have to have a cell phone connected to this in order to make those phone calls, but just to call quality people didn't know that I was using a speakerphone, let alone a Smartwatch, so fairly good call, quality, and also with this speakerphone, you can play music directly from it. I'm going to go ahead and let you guys listen to a clip now so pretty decent speakerphone turning things over, you do add the optically based wrist heart rate monitor not the most accurate. Unfortunately, then, you do have your sort of metal pins around back for a quick connect for your on quick wireless charging fairly quickly, and then you have your industry standard, 22, millimeter watch, strap, disconnect and connect connectors.

So overall, if we're just talking about the design of both watches, it's sort of whichever you pick your poison I, do think that the foster generation v looks good. I do like that circular display looks fairly nice to me. The Apple Watch also looks good if you're into that sort of square design and, like I, said that bulge is very refined and holding them both man. They both have a certain amount of heft and weight to them, and they both feel perfect and that's saying a lot, because the fossil is literally less than half the price of the fossil I'm. Sorry, the fossil generation 5 is less than half the price of the Apple Watch Series.

For now, you can get the series for now for at a bit of a discounted price, probably around little under 500 bucks refurbished. But still you can get this at 200 and some changes brand new, and they fill about the same. Maybe the Apple Watch is a little heavier, but they just add that nice feel that lets. You know that you're holding something substantial. So next up, let's talk a little about what you can and can't do with both of these devices, so both of these devices do have GPS.

So that means that you're getting fairly accurate activity tracking when you go on runs and if you go on cycling and walking outdoor walk things of that nature. GPS is within one tenth of each other, so fairly accurate across the board. For both of them. You get that optically based wrist heart rate monitor on both of them. The Apple Watch Series for is just more accurate.

However, with both of them, you do have the ability to connect a Bluetooth heart rate monitor so that you get more accurate fitness tracking during those workouts. So that's very good and that's really what's most important you're getting the most accurate information um, you do get all-day activity tracking with steps and things like that being monitored. You get all-day activity tracking, with your heart rate being monitored with the fossil generation fire it uses fit and then, with the Apple Watch Series for, of course, you're using Apple Health. Unfortunately you're not really getting true, continuous, 24-hour heart rate monitoring with the foster generation 5 it takes reading every 15 minutes with the Apple Watch, I really can't find out. If it's supposed to be every minute, it seems like it tries to obtain something every one minute or every couple of minutes, and then that does get logged if it doesn't obtain a reading.

It sort of stops and then tries again in a couple of minutes, but I haven't been able to find anything that says that it's continuous every minute on the minute of every hour and I haven't really found that in the readings either so for your activity, tracking google fit and Apple Health, they both do a decent job at tracking that information for you and they both connect to a bunch of other third-party applications, which is good. Next up. You can take and place phone calls with these watches directly on both Android and on iOS. The foster generation.5 is the only Android wear Smartwatch that I'm aware of that. You can actually make phone calls if you had an iPhone, which is that's a pretty big deal, because you couldn't do that before they just push that update a couple of months ago, so you can take and make phone calls from your foster generation from your fossil generation.5 Smartwatch. If you have an iPhone, so that's good and then, of course you can do that with your Apple Watch.

But you cannot do this. This Apple Watch does not connect to Android, also with notifications. Sort of this is where things start to just sort of separate themselves, if you're, using only iOS versus if you're, using Android when Android you get two-way notifications on the pasta, June 5, 2010, Ramesh, with connectivity issues. If your watch is connected to your phone or not that's, sort of whole separate issue with where OS, not necessarily just with me file so generation 5, but when it works, it's great when it runs into issues, it runs into issues. Now, if you have this watch connected to your Apple, iPhone you're not gonna, be able to respond to two-way notifications.

They just come up your wrist buzzes, and it lets. You know that you had that notification, but you can't respond, not I'm not going to watch justice because of the walled garden that Apple has. It doesn't allow you to do that. The only I mean Apple only works with apples, so the only way that you can respond to those notifications is with the Apple Watch. So, of course, that means that if you get notifications on your wrist with the Apple Watch, you can respond via dictation.

You can also type on the screen I'm. You can send emojis and things like that. With the Apple Watch Series for okay, you can listen to music on both of these devices with the FAST generation five and uses google play music, you can download music they're worth 'LE onto the watch and take it on a run without having to be connected to your phone and again, like I, said earlier, you can play music directly through the speakerphone, or you can connect Bluetooth headphones with the Apple Watch. It uses Apple Music. You can download music directly to the watch and take it for a run.

The same way, however, you can only listen to music if you have headphones in now, I guess. The difference here is because this is cellular. If you don't have the music downloaded, you can still stream it directly to the watch. You cannot do that with each generation. Five, because there's no cellular connectivity yet maybe in a new, updated fossil watch.

They may do that next up battery okay, so, unfortunately, where OS is a bit more power-hungry and because it's more power hungry, it will definitely have to charge your fossil generation, five at least one time throughout the day, if you're planning on using this for sleep tracking, which is not built-in, it's not built-in on either of these devices, but there are third-party applications that allow that information to be tracked you'd have to charge this twice over the span of 24 hours if you're working out daily. You definitely want to put this on the charger at least once at nighttime. If you're, not gonna, wear it to bed. It'll get you to view full day of use for sure on the Apple Watch you can get about a day and a half to maybe two days. If you do not work out, you can get two days of use with the Apple Watch.

If you work out, you can get a day and a half and that's with you using it for sleep tracking overnight watch OS is just a bit more I guess you could say reserve in terms or maybe aggressive with battery management, because it just doesn't run as heavy okay. The battery just lasts a bit longer. Part of that also has to do with some inherent design things from design aspects from the Xperia system, with a foster generation 5. This does have always on display. Ok, you can turn that off, and you can make it so that there's tilt to raise on the device there's just a bunch of customizations that you can do with the FAST generation fire to improve on battery life, not to mention that it also has a battery saver mode built-in.

You can go ahead and check out my foster generation.5 review, and I'll touch base a little more in there, but there's a lot more that you can do in terms of customizations for the battery on the faucet, in fact that you can't do with the Apple Watch now. That being said, you don't have to do that on the Apple Watch. It's sort of like Apple, tells you ok. This is what you need in a watch and because this is what you need in a watch. We know that you'll get through this amount of time through the day so that you don't have to charge it more.

So it's sort of like whichever side of the fence you lay on if you're somebody that wants to be able to dictate what you want your watch to do then the FAST generation 5 would be more for you. If you're, ok, with Apple sort of telling you what you can and can't do with this watch them series on 4 is good for you. Now the series 5 does have that always-on display built in, and there is some Knox or hit on the battery life there, but Apple did think of a pretty ingenious way to try to reduce the battery life hit by adjusting the refresh rate on that particular model. So, all in all, if you want my opinion on which one of these devices you should pick up, it's really sort of I, don't want it. It's a little tough to say.

Ok, I, believe, personally, that the Apple Watch Series 4 is the best Smartwatch to date because of everything that you can do it does have Siri built in you get your 2-way notifications. You can respond to messages. It works 90 to 95 percent of the time very few flaws. I worked out a lot. You can have a bunch of different activities that you can track directly from the watch not saying you can't do that here, but you have the ability to connect Bluetooth.

Heart rate, monitor again, you can do that here, but it's just a lot more feasible and usable. You get that sleep tracking on the device with the third-party application. It is not as power-hungry it lasts me a bit longer, and so because of that, that's why the Apple Watch Series 4 is the device that I wear daily. Ok, the foster generation. Five is a good, it's probably tied.

Well, it is tied for the best android wear Smartwatch, in my opinion, whether you're on Android or, if you're on the iPhone, you can do 80% of the things that you get with the Apple Watch, I, probably say 80, 85 % of them. You can get with the file, so generation 5 um, the biggest yacht, is just that you can't get to a notification, so you can't respond to messages for some people that don't want to respond to messages. Then, basically the foster generation.5 is a pretty good watch for you, because of all the other things that you are able to do with it and not to mention that price at 200 bucks versus well. Let's just say: if we're talking about lunch prices, $300 versus $800 about you know it's less than half the price, and you're getting 80 to 85% of the Smartwatch, it's sort of like a no-brainer, almost like you should just go ahead and purchase beat foster generation 5. Some people would just automatically say that, because of that price they're, not even in the same league, but they are indefinitely.

Of course, if you have an Android device, this is the Smartwatch that you should get between this and the Ska gen poster 3. In my opinion, very fast I didn't even go over the specs, because the Apple doesn't really believe specs here on the Apple Watch Series cornets, it's just it's not as it's not needed, ok, but this is definitely the one of the best smartwatches you can purchase if you have an Android device. This is what I would recommend. If you have an iPhone I would recommend you could get either one of these. But if you just want more future compatibility- and you just want a little more ease abuse- and you don't want things to be super complicated, then I would recommend getting the Apple Watch.

The series 4 I mean the series 5. You can go out and purchase, but, in my opinion, the series 4 right now, if you can get it refurbished or brand new out of steel, and that would be the way that I would go because from what I understand, even with the series 5 with that always-on display, then knocking the battery is just not worth it for the upgraded price, at least in my opinion, about just paying a buck for this I wasn't going to pay another 800 bucks for the series 5. So this is max tech toy box. Hope you guys enjoyed the video review like comment subscribe. Let me know what you guys have to say: what are you guys have thoughts? Do you guys, like the foster generation 5 you guys, like the Apple series? Four, let me know your opinions in the comment section below once you guys to stay safe, and it's I see you guys again.

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