Michael Kors Access Lexington 2 is a standard-wear smartwatch that comes with designer-label looks, and with designer label price as well. The Michael Kors triplets -- Access MKGO, Access Bradshaw 2, and Access Lexington 2 -- were launched in September 2019 at the IFA and are now out for sale. Fossils big bit, the Gen 5, has been a hit for many other brands that used it as their base as well -- Emporio Armani, Puma, Kate Spade, and Diesel to mention a few. Access Lexington 2 is basically a Fossil Gen 5 machine with a glamorous design. It is among the more refined smartwatches to have come so far from the Michael Kors.This can be considered an attempt by the designer label to bring the glow of fashion into the tech world. Even though it has sporty hardware, the design is more cocktail-bar than sweaty-gym. The Michael Kors Access Lexington 2 varies in price depending on its colour and design. The price ranges from $350 to $425. The lower-price spectrum includes the Silver-Tone, the Gold-Tone, and the Tri-Tone; and the expensive one is a Pav Two-Tone, which is remarkably flashy. As for the tech and specifications, it has a weighty 4mm case and a 1.28-inch AMOLED screen with 328 pixels per inch. It looks distinctively stylish and flamboyant. Though it has separate offerings for men and women, the design looks unisex. It is not overly comfortable though. The digital crown and the two additional buttons for touch screen controls are welcome features. The rotating crown and the buttons can be configured to pick the apps one is looking for. The crown switches on the screen and the long-press wakes up Google Assistant. It is not a smartwatch OS that has evolved quickly enough and, as such, is far behind the Apple Watch OS and even miles behind Samsung's Tizen smartwatch OS. Lexington 2 has a Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100 chipset, and 8GB of storage. The 1GB of RAM explains the speed of operation and performance of the watch. This watch is considerably fast, except for the occasional stutter while scrolling through the apps. With Lexington 2, you can choose from an array of slick watch faces, either on the device itself or using the companion Wear OS app and the pre-installed MK Access app that allows you to customise the complications you see on those faces. My Social brings notifications from Instagram and other social media. The MK Access app helps to customise the watch. There is a speaker on the side that lets you take calls via the watch; the calls are routed through the paired phone as it is not an LTE smartwatch. This is also the speaker through which Google Assistant will communicate with you. As for the health and fitness quotient of the watch, it is not a watch that can be worn comfortably for any sort of physical activity even though it has GPS radio, heart rate monitoring, and is waterproof. The 310mAh battery has a life of 36 hours for limited use of the smartwatch apps. If you use GPS, stream music or do anything extra, you'll have to charge it every day. It has a battery saving mode though.Michael Kors is very well aware of what it is doing. There are faithful customers for the brand as well as people who love gaudy technology, whom the company is luring with its voguish design. The fact that it is not-for-me, and that I feel like I am Rodney in his Rooney bracelet is irrelevant. It's shiny, it's showy -- it is a statement. It is up to oneself to decide if it is a statement one wants to make. What can be asserted is that it is incredibly well built, with a neat finish and minute details like the MK on the crown and the logo on the link lock brilliantly executed.

Michael Kors Access Lexington 2 is a standard-wear smartwatch that comes with designer-label looks, and with designer label price as well. The Michael Kors triplets -- Access MKGO, Access Bradshaw 2, and Access Lexington 2 -- were launched in September 2019 at the IFA and are now out for sale. Fossils big bit, the Gen 5, has been a hit for many other brands that used it as their base as well -- Emporio Armani, Puma, Kate Spade, and Diesel to mention a few. Access Lexington 2 is basically a Fossil Gen 5 machine with a glamorous design. It is among the more refined smartwatches to have come so far from the Michael Kors.This can be considered an attempt by the designer label to bring the glow of fashion into the tech world. Even though it has sporty hardware, the design is more cocktail-bar than sweaty-gym. The Michael Kors Access Lexington 2 varies in price depending on its colour and design. The price ranges from $350 to $425. The lower-price spectrum includes the Silver-Tone, the Gold-Tone, and the Tri-Tone; and the expensive one is a Pav Two-Tone, which is remarkably flashy. As for the tech and specifications, it has a weighty 4mm case and a 1.28-inch AMOLED screen with 328 pixels per inch. It looks distinctively stylish and flamboyant. Though it has separate offerings for men and women, the design looks unisex. It is not overly comfortable though. The digital crown and the two additional buttons for touch screen controls are welcome features. The rotating crown and the buttons can be configured to pick the apps one is looking for. The crown switches on the screen and the long-press wakes up Google Assistant. It is not a smartwatch OS that has evolved quickly enough and, as such, is far behind the Apple Watch OS and even miles behind Samsung's Tizen smartwatch OS. Lexington 2 has a Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100 chipset, and 8GB of storage. The 1GB of RAM explains the speed of operation and performance of the watch. This watch is considerably fast, except for the occasional stutter while scrolling through the apps. With Lexington 2, you can choose from an array of slick watch faces, either on the device itself or using the companion Wear OS app and the pre-installed MK Access app that allows you to customise the complications you see on those faces. My Social brings notifications from Instagram and other social media. The MK Access app helps to customise the watch. There is a speaker on the side that lets you take calls via the watch; the calls are routed through the paired phone as it is not an LTE smartwatch. This is also the speaker through which Google Assistant will communicate with you. As for the health and fitness quotient of the watch, it is not a watch that can be worn comfortably for any sort of physical activity even though it has GPS radio, heart rate monitoring, and is waterproof. The 310mAh battery has a life of 36 hours for limited use of the smartwatch apps. If you use GPS, stream music or do anything extra, you'll have to charge it every day. It has a battery saving mode though.Michael Kors is very well aware of what it is doing. There are faithful customers for the brand as well as people who love gaudy technology, whom the company is luring with its voguish design. The fact that it is not-for-me, and that I feel like I am Rodney in his Rooney bracelet is irrelevant. It's shiny, it's showy -- it is a statement. It is up to oneself to decide if it is a statement one wants to make. What can be asserted is that it is incredibly well built, with a neat finish and minute details like the MK on the crown and the logo on the link lock brilliantly executed.

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