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New PebbleOS Smartwatches Won’t Be Great for iPhone Owners
Pebble is back with a pair of new smartwatches—the $150 Core 2 Duo and $225 Core Time 2. Unfortunately, iPhone owners who buy these smartwatches will miss out on a lot of important functionality. The new PebbleOS watches are explicitly designed for both Android and iOS, just as they were a decade ago. However, as founder Eric Migicovsky explains in…
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10 Best Wear OS Smartwatches You Can Buy in 2025
Google’s wearable platform has received much criticism and praise over the years. Wear OS has come a long way, and so have the manufacturers making the current-gen wearables. If we had penned this article a couple of years ago, there were hardly a few watches to include. However, Wear OS in 2025 is bustling with great smartwatches. So here are…
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Best Android Smartwatches of 2024
Any number of companies make smartwatches that play well with Android devices, but as with Android smartphones, most watchmakers also customize the operating system, tweaking the user interface and adding exclusive features. For example, the highly rated Samsung Galaxy Watch7 uses Samsung’s version of Android’s Wear OS, so it’s best for people who use a Samsung phone, such as the…
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Early Black Friday Deals on Garmin Smartwatches
We may earn a commission from links on this page.Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. The early Black Friday deals on fitness watches have begun, and today you can find a ton of deals on Garmin watches in particular. The Forerunner, Instinct, Vivoactive, and Venu lines all have models on sale today at 20% off,…
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Best Smartwatches of 2024, Tested by Our Experts
These top models from Apple, Fitbit, Google, and Samsung offer great performance and a variety of useful features Smartwatches that do well in Consumer Reports’ testing include models from (left to right) Amazfit, Google, Samsung, and Apple. By Allen St. John, Courtney Lindwall Smartwatches can do plenty of things, from answering texts to checking the weather forecast. But increasingly, smartwatches…
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The seven best Android smartwatches in 2024
Writer’s note: Amazon’s next Prime Day event is officially scheduled for October 8th and 9th. We’ve already assembled a collection of the best early Prime Day deals for those who want to shop ahead, but keep in mind that expect steeper smartwatch savings during the event. After a long stretch of slim pickings, the last couple of years have been huge…
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