15 Best Smart Watch for Android

Unfortunately, battery life is still mediocre; you’ll need to charge it the following morning after tracking your sleep. That said, WatchOS 9 adds a new Low Power Mode that extends the battery life to two full days while sacrificing features such as the Always-On Display or workout autostart. Our Best Apple Watch guide has more details, and check out our Apple Watch Accessories guide for extras. Apple’s and Samsung’s latest smartwatches offer several advanced health-tracking features, including the ability to take an electrocardiogram and measure your blood oxygen saturation level.

You can usually find this on the back of the strap itself (you’ll see “20 mm” or just “22”), or you can check the manual or the website you purchased the watch from. Ever since Google started getting serious about making its own hardware—when the first Pixel phone arrived in 2016—we’ve seen rumors about a Pixel Watch, powered by Google’s Wear OS operating system. It’s a round watch with a very smooth and sleek-looking case—arguably one of the prettiest full-featured smartwatches I’ve ever seen. There’s a tactile crown, recycled stainless steel in the frame, and swappable bands that are, unfortunately, proprietary (a very Apple-like move).

So, you’ll want to be sure that the band and overall design are comfortable. Of course, the only way to know for sure is to test it out yourself. That’s why it’s important to shop etrailers that provide free shipping and free return shipping.

Hybrid watches benefit from longer battery life with some even having separate cells for the watch and smart features. Since they’re not true smartwatches, you’ll find hybrid watches from Withings and others in our separate fitness tracker chart. Google Assistant is available and works well and the watch features a full QWERTY keyboard for tap and swipe typing. While there’s easy access to a range of Google apps, there’s a paucity of third-party apps available. From heart-rate monitoring to automatic sleep tracking, the Amazift T-Rex 2 can do it all, making it a lot better than a lot of other smartwatches out there.

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I had this Casio on my wrist for more than a month and used one of its handful of functions every single day, something I can’t say for many smartwatches. I used the stopwatch to track my rest intervals between sets at the gym. I set my world time to New Delhi, India, the time zone my sister and parents are in.

If you’re scratching your head trying to figure out which smartwatch to buy, then we are here to help. In this post, we’ll take a look at some of the best smartwatches you can buy on the market in 2022. In the app, you can configure the buttons to take a photo when the camera app is open, control music playback, show another time zone, and even track step count and sleep. The latter is accurate, but the watch regularly undercounts steps, so I wouldn’t rely on it much for tracking your walks. Finally, smartwatches can be expensive, and frankly they don’t offer much value for what you pay. Before you spring for an Apple Watch Ultra, you might ask if you are really going SCUBA diving this year, or if you’re just going to check your text messages without disturbing your dinner mates.

The Galaxy Watch 5 Pro’s battery life is its standout feature — it lasts three days without a recharge, even with a 30-minute tracked activity, but only if you don’t wear it overnight. That is better than most non-specialty consumer smartwatches, and because its heavy and tall, it’s not great for sleep tracking, anyway. The new Apple Watch SE costs as much as $150 less than the new Apple Watch Series 8 but it packs the same S8 chip.

Check the manufacturer’s specs to confirm just how water-resistant your potential smartwatch is. For fitness and health metrics, you’ll rely on Google Fit to track steps, breathing, heart rate, calories, and activity points. However, Wear OS is known to be a bit buggy with accurate step tracking.

This is a great all-around watch with valuable features for everyone from fitness enthusiasts to obsessive texters to anyone seriously into tracking their daily health. At nearly $400, it’s on the high end of smartwatches in our roundup, but that’s not surprising given the Apple branding. Is it good enough that we’d recommend switching your Android device for it? The OS or operating system compatibility is crucial for a smartwatch that supports texting.