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Here are the best smartwatches available for Android and iOS users
The best smartwatch is more than just a way to get smartphone notifications on your wrist. The device has to be everything in one: a fitness tracker, a wallet and even a phone.
Smartwatch shipments increased by 48 percent year-over-year in the first quarter of 2019, due in large part to the Apple Watch, according to Counterpoint Research. One in three smartwatches shipped is an Apple Watch.
After spending hundreds of hours testing dozens of smartwatches, our pick for best smartwatch has been the Apple Watch Series 5 with GPS (starting at $399), which has a huge, always-on display, built-in Compass, and all of the advanced health features we loved about the Series 4, including fall detection and a built-in electrical heart rate sensor for taking on-the-go electrocardiograms. It also runs watchOS 6, which makes the watch even more useful with period-tracking, a tip calculator, audiobook playback, activity trends and...