Smartwatches are one of the best bits of tech you can buy right now, providing you with almost endless amounts of convenient features on your wrist. These are the best smartwatches.
This guide contains our top 10 expert picks from the wearable market. The Apple Watch is an obvious choice for many but even Apple has various models to choose from. Google Wear OS devices provide a wealth of choice and there are others, too, including Garmin and Xiaomi. You’ll find our list of the best smartwatches below, all of which have been thoroughly tested by our expert team.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR
Why you need a smartwatch
There’s an interesting theory that smartwatches are to the smartphone what wristwatches were to the pocket watch. Picture the way the average gentleman used to have to rummage through his pocket for his watch prior to the 20th century. Now skip forward 100+ years and the average smartphone user still has to dive into their pocket to check their phone.
The kicker now is that your smartphone holds far more information than a pocket watch ever did, all of which is still locked into your pocket. Smartwatches aren’t for making phone calls – although some can – instead, they (among other things) provide a quick and easy way to check your phone’s notifications, so you can decide whether it’s worth delving into your pocket or searching around your bag to fetch your smartphone and properly action anything.
What makes a good smartwatch
When testing for the best smartwatch, the important factors to consider are ‘how many of your smartphone’s functions can it perform?’,
