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Best Android Smartwatch 2020

Right now, the best smartwatch for Android users is the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2. It's optimized for Samsung phones but runs well on all Android devices and has all the smartwatch and fitness features you'd expect. It's compact and lightweight but still offers good battery life. But if you're not into that one, the good news is that there are so many other amazing options from Fossil to Garmin to Fitbit and more.

The best smartwatches at a glance

Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 — The Galaxy Watch Active 2 is great for all Android users, not just Samsung phone owners, with an incredible balance of features, battery life, and aesthetics.

Samsung Galaxy Watch Active — If you want something a bit cheaper and need the extra sensors, this is your best option.

Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 — The Galaxy Watch 3 is a solid upgrade pick that offers LTE connectivity, a beautiful design, and improved health/fitness tracking.

Skagen Falster 3 There's no better option if you want to wear Google's Wear OS on your wrist.

Mobvoi TicWatch Pro 3 — The TicWatch Pro 3 offers the best performance yet along with key improvements to battery life and health/fitness tracking features.

Garmin Forerunner 245 Music — Garmin is a name pros know, and the Forerunner 245 Music has impeccable GPS accuracy, long battery life, and support for notifications and music services.

What are the best smartwatches?

If you're in the market for the best Android smartwatch, your choices should include our two best overall picks, the Galaxy Watch Active 2 and the slightly older and cheaper Galaxy Watch Active. The differences are minor — the Active 2 has a couple more sensors and comes in two size options — but together with the new Galaxy Watch 3, they make up Samsung's most impressive wearables lineup to date.

 What makes them great is the fluid Tizen OS mixed with beautiful hardware. Unlike the original Galaxy Watch, which has a physical rotating bezel, the Watch Active line uses a "virtual" bezel that lets you move around the software by rotating around the edge of the vivid AMOLED display. Samsung Health has also improved immensely over the last couple of years and features a well-rounded selection of workout tracking options as well as a built-in GPS for monitoring outdoor runs or bike rides. Battery life on both watches is measured in days, not hours and the included sports bands are comfortable enough that you'll forget you're wearing anything on your wrist at all — until a notification comes in, which is easy to activate or dismiss.

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Best Smartwatch 2020: Top Picks For Every Budget

The best smartwatches do more than show notifications on your wrist. They're everything in one: a fitness tracker, a wallet and in some cases, even an LTE-equipped phone.

 A smartwatch can also save your life with elevated heart rate alerts and automatically connect you to emergency services if you fall. Electrocardiogram (ECG) and blood oxygen (SpO2) readings are perks of certain premium models, too. The former detects signs of atrial fibrillation, while the latter is a good indicator of respiratory health.

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But the best smartwatches do all these things better than others. Some have huge numbers of apps you can download, and some have batteries that will barely last a day, while others can go nearly a week on a charge. And of course there's style: The best smartwatches can be customized, from their straps to their faces, to best fit with your personality.

 See all of the best smartwatches below, as well as our smartwatch buying guide for more tips on finding the ultimate wearable for you.

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Smartwatch

A smartwatch is a wearable computer in the form of a watch; modern smartwatches provide a local touchscreen interface for daily use, while an associated smartphone app provides for management and telemetry (such as long-term biomonitoring). While early models could perform basic tasks, such as calculations, digital time telling, translations, and game-playing, 2010s smartwatches have more general functionality closer to smartphones, including mobile apps, a mobile operating system and WiFi/Bluetooth connectivity. Some smartwatches function as portable media players, with FM radio and playback of digital audio and video files via a Bluetooth headset. Some models, called 'watch phones' (or vice versa), have mobile cellular functionality like making calls.

 While internal hardware varies, most have an electronic visual display, either backlit LCD or OLED.Some use transflective or electronic paper, to consume less power. They are generally powered by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. Peripheral devices may include digital cameras, thermometers, accelerometers, pedometers, heart rate monitors, altimeters, barometers, compasses, GPS receivers, tiny speakers, and microSD cards, which are recognized as storage devices by many other kinds of computers.

 Software may include digital maps, schedulers and personal organizers, calculators, and various kinds of watch faces. The watch may communicate with external devices such as sensors, wireless headsets, or a heads-up display. Like other computers, a smartwatch may collect information from internal or external sensors and it may control, or retrieve data from, other instruments or computers. It may support wireless technologies such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS. For many purposes, a "watch computer" serves as a front end for a remote system such as a smartphone, communicating with the smartphone using various wireless technologies. Smartwatches are advancing, especially their design, battery capacity, and health-related applications.[5] Health-related applications include applications measuring heart rate, SpO2, workout etc.