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Fossil Q Explorist HR (Gen 4)
The Fossil Q Explorist HR is a Wear OS based smartwatch developed by Fossil Group. It is a 46mm watch aimed at men with larger wrists, compared to the 42mm Venture HR targeted for women. The watch was announced on August 6th, 2018 via a press release. It introduces features such as NFC for mobile payments, GPS and heart rate tracking to the Fossil smartwatch line.

The watch focuses on emulating the look of traditional watches with a round, always on AMOLED display. It has three physical buttons, with the outer two being remappable to other applications and the middle button doubling as a scroll wheel. It also features interchangeable 22mm straps.

For health tracking and exercising, the Fossil Q Explorist HR has a built in GPS tracker and heart rate monitor. Workouts, as well as daily activity can be accessed through the built in Google Fit app. The watch also features a 3 atm water resistance classification.

Software
The watch shipped with Wear OS 2.0 and currently runs the latest Wear OS 2.6 operating system. It is compatible with phones running Android (4.4 or later, excluding Go edition) or iOS (9.3 or later). The watch can receive text messages via its built in bluetooth connection to the phone, and can receive emails or instant messages over the same bluetooth connection as well as through its WiFi antenna. The watch also features "Ok Google" hot-word detection for activating the Google Assistant to perform actions such as making calls, sending messages and checking the weather.

Reception
TechRadar praised the watch's design, as well as its large, clear display and competitive pricing, but disliked the one day battery life and proprietary magnetic charger. Wareable was similarly impressed by its design, and praised the watch for bringing mobile payments support. However, Wareable disliked the watch's inaccurate heart rate monitor as well as its slow and proprietary magnetic charger.