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Withings watches offer a similar battery life, it really depends on how much the watch vibrates when notifications are routed to the watch.

I love my Withings. Given what I've read about the Fossil application experience, I assume Withings is better in that regard too.

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Withings watches don’t seem to have a GPS radio, though. The advertised “connected GPS” means GPS date pulled over Bluetooth from your smartphone, correlated with other data from the watch by an app running on your smartphone, at which point it becomes unclear how this counts as a feature of the watch in the first place.

This is the case for many "hybrid" smart watches including the parents Fossil Machine. I believe the true feature is the display of distance travelled on the watch reported by the phone and app.

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