Gadgetory

this is the faso cube founder it's fossils first android wear watch it can display notifications from your iphone or android device and also provide personalized google now cards with information on your commute the weather your favorite sports team and more the watch is very big the stainless steel case measures 46 millimeters but it looks and feels great overall the founder is quite beautiful well at least until you look at the screen the despite isn't as crisp as I would like and images and text look pixelated it's also not a complete circle at the bottom sits this unsightly black bar just like on the Moto 360 this is where the ambient light sensor is located the sensor can automatically set display brightness and while it's convenient I much rather have a fully circular display unlike most Android wear watches the founder is powered by an Intel processor which is paired with 1 gigabyte of RAM but performance wasn't always smooth I definitely noticed some lag when swiping through different screens other specs include 4 gigabytes of storage for music and apps Wi-Fi to function when your phone is left behind and both an accelerometer and gyroscope for tracking steps in distance but there's no optical heart rate sensor or GPS this is a fashion watch not a sport one what really disappointed me was battery life the founder lasted only 24 hours which is worse than both the Moto 360 and the Huawei watch also to charge it you have to use this big and clunky wireless charging pad if I didn't know any better I would have thrown it out with the Box aside from a handful of custom watch faces none of which are very memorable fossile didn't include any special apps or features to help the watch stand out it's just running plain old Android wear the fossil queue is available now for $275 with a leather strap or $295 with the metal band it's a bit cheaper than some of the competition but I can't recommend it iPhone owners are better off with an Apple watch and Android users should check out the Samsung gear s2 Huawei watch or the Moto 360 for more information check out my full review over at cnet.com