If you hate looking at your smartphone all day, you should consider getting a smartwatch. While it may seem counterintuitive to get a new gadget to lessen your dependency on another, it can be more effective than you think. Smartwatches take the most crucial parts of a smartphone — call and text alerts, app notifications, and quick controls — and put them on your wrist.
That means no more fumbling with your smartphone during a meeting to silence a call, no more checking Twitter or Facebook every two minutes for the newest post. Instead of absentmindedly staring at your smartphone’s display, the most important information hits your wrist as it happens. As wearables, smartwatches can also track daily activity, and some even double as high-end fitness watches equipped with heart rate monitors, GPS trackers, music storage, and more.
Today, your smartphone remains the biggest factor to consider when you buy a smartwatch. Most smartwatches must pair to your phone to receive information, so the smartwatch you choose must be compatible with your handset either through its operating system or a companion mobile app. So to make the selection process easier for would-be watch wearers, we’ve revisited all of the smartwatches we’ve reviewed in recent years and picked out the best ones for all types of users with all types of phones.
(********************************** (Lots of runners want a device they can use to train and the best runner’s smartwatchwe’ve found is the the Garmin Forerunner
. The entire Forerunner family is designed for these athletes in particular, and the Forerunner keeps things simple and relatively affordable at $ 301. It has Garmin’s heart rate technology as well as built-in GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo positioning technology to map runs and outdoor workouts. It also has incident detection, which can alert emergency services if you’ve fallen while training (as long as you have your smartphone with you), and Garmin’s LiveTrack lets you share your real-time location with family and friends in case you want others to know where you’re going for a run.
(********************************** (**************************** (Samsung’s Gear Sport) ************** is thebest smartwatch for Android smartphone users, mostly because Samsung’s Tizen is a solid alternative to Google’s WearOS. It’s the closest thing Android users will get to an Apple Watch alternative as it has robust fitness tracking features as well features like NFC for Samsung Pay and downloadable apps that let you to do things like check the weather, play music, and more. The Gear Sport is a few years old at this point, so you can opt for the (Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2) ************** if you want the newest version.
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Sporting a tiny screen on your wrist isn’t for everyone, and (Fossil’s Q Commuter) ************** (smartwatch is the) ***************************** (most stylish smartwatch) ******************************* for those that like a more traditional look. It’s an analog watch that looks like any of Fossil’s normal watches, but it’s made a bit smarter with embedded technology. It tracks daily activity and uses its subeye to show step counts, message and calendar alerts, and more. You can also customize its three side buttons to do things like remotely take a photo with your smartphone.
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(****************************************Battery life (********************************************************* (About 2 days) ******************************************************** (**********************************************************The Apple) Watchis the obvious choice for iOS users, but it’s also the best smartwatch you can get right now. Over the past few years, Apple has worked on making its Watch as streamlined as possible, and it has succeeded in making a smartwatch that beats the rest with superior hardware and software.
It may look like a tiny iPhone, but the Apple Watch has a design that’s relatively subtle but can be personalized with bands in different colors, textures, and styles. That’s important in a device you wear on your body every day, but arguably more important are the hardware features that lie under the hood.
The newest model, the (Apple Watch Series 5) **************, has an always-on display, a water-resistant body, a slew of fitness sensors including an always-on heart rate monitor, an onboard GPS, and an updated accelerometer for fall detection, NFC for Apple Pay, and optional LTE. All of those things, save for the always-on display and fall detection, are also features of the Apple Watch Series 3, so you don’t have to pay top-dollar for the newest model to get most of the key features.
WatchOS makes the Apple Watch easy to interact with when you want to and easy to ignore the device when you don’t . You could choose to view and reply to all notifications that beam from your iPhone to your wrist, or enter Do Not Disturb mode when you need to concentrate. The new on-Watch App Store lets you download Watch apps directly to the device, so you no longer need a companion iPhone app to do so. You can choose to have your favorite vacation photos as your watchface, or pick a design with numerous complications so you can see a lot of information at a glance. There’s a lot of customization you can do in watchOS, and that makes it easier to make your Watch feel more like your own personalized timepiece.
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