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What’s the best smartwatch? The best smartwatch in 2017 is the Huawei Watch, but we also recommend the Apple Watch Series 2 and Motorola Moto 360 2, and there are plenty of other top Android watches and iPhone watches to choose from. Learn about these smartwatches and more in our best smartwatches chart. These are the best smartwatches on the UK market for iPhone, Android, fitness and more. See also: The best activity trackers 2017.
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There’s an interesting theory that smartwatches are to the smartphone what wristwatches were to the pocket watch. Picture the way the average gentlemen used to have to rummage through his pocket for his watch prior to the 20th century – now skip forward 100+ years and the average smartphone user still has to dive into his/her pocket to check their phone. Read : The best smartphones: The best phone you can buy in 2017.
The kicker now is that your smartphone holds far more information than a pocket watch ever did, yet all of which is still locked into your pocket. The theory behind smartwatches is not for you to make calls with and speak into, although some can do this, but instead they mainly provide a quick and easy way to check what notifications are on your smartphone, so you can decide whether it’s worth delving into your pocket or searching around your bag to fetch your smartphone or not.
There are two type of smartwatch around at the moment: Those with a colourful touchscreen like would find on your phone, and those which combine a regular analogue watch with smart features – we call them ’semi-smartwatches‘. The latter we class as a semi-smart device and normally gives you information via a small LCD screen, LEDs or even smaller hands on the watch face.
