Best Smartwatches (2021) | All Budgets, Tested & Reviewed!

 now if you're simply not satisfied with

having a super-powered miniature 

computer stashed in your pants or your bag well why not slap one on your wrist as well smartwatches can help make your life that little bit easier giving you a heads up for any new messages and notifications while offering great standalone features  for fitness tracking and stress-busting but they also come in all kinds of shapes and sizes while the price could range from about 40 or 50 quid up to hundreds and hundreds of pounds so the big question is which smartwatch is going to be best for you and your budget in 2021 well I've reviewed absolutely tons of these buggers and here are my own personal picks my own favorite smartwatches eating grab right now and for more on the latest greatest tech cheers so one of my favorite premia 

wrist rockets in 2021 is still Samsung's galaxy watch 3 which combines the best 

elements of the original galaxy watch and that galaxy watch active 2 into a single device, you got a choice of 41 or 45 mil sizes and both look proper gorgeous with dual buttons and full water resistance that slick rotated bezel is ideal for gliding through Tizen os menus and the many many apps which are as colorful and well designed as always you've got quite a lot packed on there, to begin with including some serious fitness tracking smarts like all premium smartwatches the galaxy watch 3 can monitor your heart rate and your blood oxygen levels and loads of other stats now pretty much every other feature you can think of is also crammed in there from e sim support to a mic and speaker for taking calls or also chatting with the Bixby assistant of course even with Samsung's current offer of 50 bobs off that asking price the galaxy watch 3 will still cost you a rather whopping 300 quid that's seriously starting to cut into the lockdown booze fund and of course one of the biggest rivals to samsung smartwatch is the apple watch series 6 which launched at almost the same time and if you want this square slab sat on your arm, you'll definitely once again need pretty deep pockets so the apple watch series 6 starts from an eye-watering 380 quid and that's just for the bog-standard aluminum version if you want the more premium materials like the stainless steel that price sharply rises and if you want to go for the billy big bollocks titanium model well that's basically double the price however, speaking as someone who dislikes almost every device that apple unleashes on the world these days I'm definitely still a fan of this slick little wearablesure it's not really evolved much at all over the years and some rivals are fast catching up but that watchos experience is still smooth and seriously satisfying using a combination of responsive touch screen and swizzly dial thing to zip through the menus and apps you've got full series smarts via the speaker and mic all of the usual fitness tracking shenanigans and the benefit of an always-on altimeter and the new ecg app which along with the blood oxygen monitoring can help to possibly diagnose any issues with the old ticker and you've got dozens of watch faces to choose from and finally a proper always on display now as well and like samsung's galaxy watch you've also got built-in nfc for your contactless payments which is particularly good 

in a covered overrun world plus if you want to expand the apple watches 

in fact pretty much the only bad thing about the apple watch series 6 beyond the extortion at ascon price of course it's the frankly pitiful battery life you'll be charging this thing up every single night or during the day unless you basically want an expensive paperweight strap to your arm if you still really fancy yourself a bit of apple watch action though and you can't quite stretch up to that near 400 pounds asking price well there's always the option of the apple watch se which launched at the same time and here in the UK that'll cost you just 269 pounds just this does offer a lot of the same features to be fair like that series 6 modeler though some of the newer stuff like the always-on display and the ECG monitoring has sadly been cold just need to throw in a quick shout out for the oppo watch which is basically a shameless wear os rip off of the apple watch it's got the same sort of style but it's google's os instead of course apple's wearable is considerably cheaper at 229 quid but it is also rather quirky not too surprising for first-gen effort check out my review if you're intrigued and speaking of wear os another smartwatch that was launched last year 

but I still really enjoy using it in 2021 is the watch pro 3 sometimes known as the ticking watch pro 3 GPS which boasts one massive advantage

over 

that apple watch and the Samsung galaxy watch and that is the far superior battery life that funky dual-display design means that quick time checks can be done just using the lower-powered LCD while a bright crisp and colorful OLED panel is used for checking notifications and playing with apps the result is three to four days of full use per charge rather than just one or 

two 

like most other smartwatches and as you'd kind of hope with that pro word shoved 

into the title of this thing the tic watch pro 3 does support some very premium features just like the galaxy

watch and the apple watch 

got all the usual stuff like built-in GPS 24-hour heart rate monitoring blood oxygen smarts and you've got the built-in mic and speaker to take calls via your phone as well as interact with the google assistant you can also download a growing selection of apps from google play store to expand the functionality and performance is nice and smooth after the most recent updates thanks largely to the fresh snapdragon wear 4100 chipsets that are packed inside now the ticking watch pro 3 might not be quite as sexy as some rivals sure but that stainless steel bezel and the leather band gives it a smart finish and this bad boy costs under 300 quid here in blighty now half a week of battery life for aware os smartwatch is definitely very commendable indeed but if you're still deeply unimpressed 

then maybe try checking out the Huawei watch gt2 pro instead this gorgeous 46-millimeter timepiece boasts a super tough but impressively lightweight titanium finish 

and like other Huawei watches it delivers up to two full weeks of use on a single charge and even if you turn on all of the features including the always-on display you will comfortably make it through a week good news for fitness fans as well as this pro model adds skiing snowboarding and golfing to the ever-expanding list of supported exercises and if whatever crazy horrendous reason you find yourself lost in the woods with zero signal no worries the handy root retracement feature will help get you back to civilization in a jiffy before you end up adopted by a family of friendly wolves however the Huawei watch gt2 pro does not offer a built-in assistant or an online app store so you can't expand the features by downloading new software and if you live in America, of course, you'll probably have to hunt around a bit for an import