So i want to help you weed, through the smart watch options out there to complement your smartphone of choice and make the best decision for your money and your needs. Getting the most out of your purchase is important, so i’m going to be focusing on devices which give you the most bang for your buck. The smart watch category and not the fitness watch what’s the difference. One is more focused on being a companion to your smartphone. Generally speaking, while the other is more focused on fitness and not necessarily giving you the most complete companion device to your phone, if any of these videos have helped you if you’ve benefited from this information, please hit us with that thumbs. Up hit that subscribe and hit that notification bell so you’ll be notified when we upload the latest videos. So let’s begin with the apple watch, having used several smart watches and fitness focused watches, i can unequivocally say that i’ve found the apple watch to be the best companion to a smartphone, but it’s only available if you’re, an iphone owner kind of with the introduction of Watch os seven and the series six apple watch: you can now purchase one for a child or aging parent as a standalone device sans iphone that’s their new family setup feature you’ll need to pay for a separate plan to go with that watch, but you won’t need An actual phone because of the apple effect, the apple watch, has arguably the largest library of third party apps available for it.
So you should be able to find just about any app to complement your fitness needs, no matter how obscure or niche you’ll also be able to find any number of bands to match your fashion and and fitness needs on amazon or from many popular case manufacturers and With covert in mind, i’m also excited to check out apple’s new fitness plus program, where you can take classes virtually from their trainers via video and watch or use follow along with that video on any of the screens in your house, from your iphone to your ipad. To your apple tv, i think when you buy a smart watch, you’re gon na rock it for a few years, so i’d recommend going with the newest version of the watch you can afford and the series 6 is a fantastic device, but not everyone is working with The same budget so just know that if you go with a series 3 or s, e you’re, still getting a great device which will complement your iphone nicely. If you go with the non lte version and it’ll be a strong standalone device. If you go with the lte version, the difference is that the lte version requires its own rate plan, but you can use it without the phone like i do. When i go to the gym or for a run around the neighborhood, you can answer text messages. Initiate them make phone calls and more it’s. Basically, a phone on your wrist.
The only weak point for apple here is their community feature. You can compete against other apple watch wearers, but you’re going to give up your cell phone number in the process as the feature which allows you to taunt them during competitions actually uses the text messaging directly from your phone to do so or from the watch. If it’s, lte and that’s, where the next watch shines, fitbit has a smart watch or fitness band for every budget, and actually let me go back for every budget, no matter how small and their community features are the best in class competing with all of your friends On social media is easy because you only need to use the email address associated with your fitbit account to do so. There are all kinds of weekly and monthly challenges you can participate in which have leaderboards and all kinds of social gaming experiences. Initially, a fitness tracker brand fitbit delved into the smartwatch category and has improved their connectivity over the last few years. The other strong point to the fitbit is that it works with both android and ios, so you only need to decide which of their watches, best meets your needs and go from there. The downside is that it is a jack of all trades master of none you’ll, get better connectivity with your phone in terms of reading messages and responding to them from other devices. In this roundup there is some basic connection worked into the fitbit app, so you can respond to text messages in some cases, but in many scenarios you’ll just be able to see notifications on the watch then get to your phone to respond.
You can expect to see stronger discount prices around black friday for fitbit’s lineup than you will for apple historically so that’s, something to keep in mind as well. Someone else who’s put in some strong discounts around launches and holidays is samsung and they have my favorite android watch on the market. There are several android watches, but the latest galaxy watch 3 is tops for its feature set construction and user interface. For me, the galaxy watch 3 is the latest in samsung’s lineup of smart watches, giving you a swiss army knife of sensors to measure and track your heart rate. Your stress levels, your heart rhythm blood, oxygenation and built into the watch, but not yet released as a feature. Eventually, your blood pressure, the only watch or first watch to do so. The galaxy watch 3 works best when connected to a samsung device, but you can pair it with almost any android watch by downloading samsung’s. Suite of software, which supports the device samsung has the broadest array of watch faces you can choose from and it works with. Watch industry standard bracelet sizes, so it is one of the devices with the largest amount of choices available for bands. Like the apple watch, you can buy it as a gps device which needs to connect to a smartphone for full functionality or in an lte version which will allow you to use it without the phone. It runs on. An operating system called tizen, so there aren’t as many apps available for it, but the main ones most people are looking for.
Are there like spotify or myfitnesspal or outlook, and it even supports samsung pay, so you can use it to pay for things from your wrist. The great thing is that, because it is so popular, you won’t have any trouble finding third party bands or other accessories for it, as i talked about in the beginning of the video health, is so important right now i mean it, it always is, but that also Means that rest is important and the galaxy watch 3 has one of the best built in tracking functions of any of the smart watches. It’Ll show you how much time you spent in rem, sleep and in deep sleep light sleep, and it has an easy to read graph and you can track the quality of your sleep over time without having to add a third party, app Music and last but not Least, i had the opportunity to check out something many of my reviewer pals have been loving and that’s, the ticwatch pro 3 gps, and you know what i’m loving it as well. First for its battery life, unlike the top watches, this one will get you three days of use and that’s impressive for what it does. It doesn’t skimp on connectivity and features matter of fact. It even has a feature others don’t, which is what allows it to get that battery life. It has an always on display, but instead of the amoled being dimmed, the watch actually has two layers of displays.
The top layer is a low power consumption, always on display and fstn or film compensated super twist pneumatic display. I don’t have time to dive into what exactly that is here, but i really just wanted to say: film compensated super twist pneumatic display and if you use it only in that mode or essential mode mobvoid, the maker says you can actually get 45 days out of The watch’s battery i have not yet tested that i have tested the fact that you get about three days out of it using it in their standard mode. The other item, which helps with stamina, is the new qualcomm snapdragon wear 4100 platform inside the watch, which ticwatch is the first android wear os watch to utilize i’ll be honest: i’m, not a huge fan of the wear os platform but mob voice. Software is actually pretty good and fills in the gaps and google has promised an upcoming big update to wear os. One of the things i like most about the ticwatch pro 3 is that it is large. The body is 47 millimeters and it works with any 22 millimeter watch drops, which is an industry standard. So there are more options than you’ll ever be able to wade through in terms of straps and bracelets. You can swim with the watch pools only and it’s ip68 rated for dust and water ingress. I actually like the strap that came with it, but i’m real partial to cloth straps for how they breathe so i’m rocking the nylon, nato style strap from urban armor gear.
Aka uag i’ll have a full review of this awesome watch up on my own youtube channel soon. So look out for that and a better description of what exactly a film compensated super twist pneumatic display is. Actually you can find reviews of all of these. On my youtube channel so go ahead and check those out, so those are my picks apple watch for iphone owners unless community is the most important aspect for you, i’d still choose apple watch over fitbit for iphone, but we all have different needs. So i want to make sure yours are met, because the fitbit is indeed a fantastic device, then for android my advice remains the same galaxy watch 3 is my top choice with the tick watch coming in a very close. Second, it’s definitely worth checking out if you’re a pure android, fanboy or fangirl or fan them day, though i find tizen a more capable platform than wear os. So what do you think agree? Disagree, let’s fight in the comments: hey i’m tashaka armstrong. If you have any questions, if this review these overview of these watches, brought up any questions or you have more thoughts about other devices, please leave that in the comments below anything, you want to know uh about rate plans that go with the lte versions of these Watches, of course, you can check that out on reviews.org on the main site and we don’t take it lightly that you spent your time watching with us, i’m tasha armstrong for reviews.R6Gh_hAcPqw
