10 best smartwatches 2022 reviewed and rated: top smartwatches to buy today
Looking for the slickest smartwatch? From sporting tickers to smartphone companions, these are the cleverest wearables you can buy.
How smart do you want your smartwatch to be? If “like, Brian Cox smart” is your answer, you need one of the best smartwatches around – and that’s what this list is for.
There’s also a new wave of lightweight smartwatches, the choice between fashionable, feature-packed and fitness-ready medical marvels just got harder. Big names have branched out, to give us the best wrist tech yet. One-day battery life? Not any more.
Our pick of the best smartwatches
Apple Watch Series 7 review
Apple’s yearly update has given the Apple Watch Series 7 a bigger display amid other refinements – but is it worth upgrading?
Features:
- New size is very welcome
- Brilliantly bright display
- New colour cases
- So many watch face options
Garmin Fenix 7 review: all-round brilliance
If your budget stretches – and your fitness pursuits demand it – the impressive combination of rugged durability, serious battery endurance, excellent navigation skills and the richest suite of training analysis, wellness and smartwatch skills, make this the best all-rounder sports watch you can buy right now.
Features:
- Outstanding battery life
- Excellent durability
- Offline mapping
- But bulky and pricey
Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 Classic
A sideways step for Samsung watches but a big jump forward for Wear OS, the Galaxy Watch 4 Classic is now the number one Apple Watch alternative
Features:
- Good fitness tracking
- The best Wear OS watch to date
- Retains plenty of Samsung flavour
Apple Watch SE
Easy to recommend – but still not for everyone
Features:
- Better-than-expected battery life
- More affordable price
- Very customisable (especially for Apple)
- Fully waterproof
Huawei Watch GT 3 Review
There’s something to be said for a gadget that’s reliable, looks good, and lasts for ages – and we found the Huawei Watch GT 3 to be all those things. It never crashed, there were no glitches, its health tracking, which we used mainly to track rowing workouts and gym sessions was great, and it lasted for absolutely ages.
Features:
- Excellent battery life
- Smooth interface
- Premium design
- No Apple Health/Google Fit syncing
Huawei Watch 3
Lovely build, brilliant for fitness, but still some way to go in terms of software
Features:
- Bright, sharp screen
- Huawei finally offers third-party apps
- Slick interface
- Neat rotating crown controller
Samsung Galaxy Watch 3
There’s a lot to love about the Galaxy Watch 3. It’s superbly made, very attractive, and its spinning bezel makes it a joy to use. Samsung’s Tizen OS is slick too, with lots of customisation and shortcut options to keep things feeling fresh – made all the better by its class-leading screen.
Features:
- Gorgeous design
- Crisp, vibrant display
- Fun, innovative bezel controls
- Clever fitness-tracking features
Fitbit Sense
Bugginess slightly holds back a well-rounded health-focused smartwatch that really tries to innovate
Features:
- Comfortable to wear
- Nice OLED display
- EDA, ECG, SpO2 and a skin temperature sensor make the Sense unrivalled for health features
- Apple Watch-embarrassing battery life
TicWatch Pro 3
The complete Android smartwatch package, and a blazing fast one at that
Features:
- Superb screen
- Powerful performance
- Three-day battery
Oppo Watch
Ignore the Apple Watch copycat looks: Oppo’s debut smartwatch handily streamlines WearOS in ways that put it ahead of many Google-powered rivals. A tasty-looking display, decent battery life and sensible price could earn it a place on your wrist.
Features:
- Gorgeous display
- Tweaks WearOS in useful ways
- Versatile fitness modes
