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in 2018 we've seen kind of this shift in the wearables market smartwatches are getting much better at tracking your fitness and fitness trackers are getting to be much more like smartwatches even though that's a really good change it can be kind of confusing to buy one of these things so that's why in late 2018 we've rounded up some of the best fitness trackers and smartwatches you can buy so overall the best SmartWatch you can buy for your Android phone is this the Galaxy watch it's made by Samsung it comes in two different models you can get one with LTE so you can stay connected to your carrier at all times or you can just get the cheaper Bluetooth model if you just want to connect it to your phone now I like this watch because it's kind of one of those everything but the kitchen sink smartwatches it'll try to do everything it may not be the best in every area but it's still pretty good at most things so since this is a Samsung watch it has a really nice display and that's one of the best parts about this watch to be honest also Samsung kind of pioneered this really interesting way of navigating around the interface you can kind of scroll the bezel around to swap between different menus it's actually pretty intuitive so this watch was absolutely packed with features and it's actually a pretty great fitness companion too it has a heart rate sensor and a GPS module so you can go running with it and track your distance now before you go and buy one of these there are few things you should know now Samsung's Tizen is really nice to use but it's significantly lacking in third-party apps also the voice assistant on the Galaxy watch is Samsung's bixby and to be honest it's pretty useless it's more useless here than it is on the company's Galaxy phones and that's really saying something so if you want a SmartWatch with a good voice assistant you should check out the tick watch pro now the tick watch pro isn't the prettiest wear OS device out there for that I'd say you should go for the Scoggin falster 2 but it is one of the best ones because it has this really unique feature it has two screens an OLED at the bottom and an LCD screen at the top the OLED is the one that you'll use to see the wear OS operating system if you're running low on battery the OLED screen switches off and the LCD one turns on and it puts the watch into an essential mode basically you only see the time and date and some activity metrics mob boy the company that makes the tick watch Pro says the watch can last up to 30 days in a central mode now I should warn you now is not the time to buy aware OS device the tick watch Pro is the best one out there but Qualcomm just released a brand new chipset and so we should be seeing a ton of other wear OS devices come to market sometime soon if the tick watch pro is too chunky for you if you have smaller wrists then you might want to check out some of fossils latest smartwatches or some of Mobb boys other tick watch offerings if your main goal with the SmartWatch is to use it for its exercising features you might want to buy a SmartWatch from a fitness company and two of the best smartwatches you can buy from a fitness company are the Fitbit Versa and Fitbit ionic I put these two on the list because after a couple recent software updates they're actually really good smartwatches you can reply to notifications right from your wrist and you can even pay for things at stores with Fitbit pay your decision to buy one watch over the other will depend on two things do you need a GPS and could you see yourself wearing the ioniq I personally think the Fitbit ionic is pretty ugly it's really boxy and design and I haven't really seen it look good on anybody's wrists the Versa is much more approachable and it's thin it kind of reminds me of like a weirder Apple watch it doesn't have a built-in GPS though so if you're a runner you should probably go for the Fitbit ionic there are a couple downsides to buying a fitbit SmartWatch though the on device software can be a little laggy at times and since Fitbit is so new to making smartwatches the third party app support is pretty much non-existent also you can only load up one watch face on either device at a single time and changing them in the app is super slow if you're not a super huge fan of the fitbit smartwatches but you still want to buy from a fitness company you should check out the garmin vivoactive 3 music now there's one more category of smartwatches I'd like to talk about and that's hybrids now hybrid smartwatches are made to look like analog watches they don't look like they have any smarts built in at all but they actually do more than you think on a lot of them you can receive smart phone notifications and they also track your fit the best hybrid SmartWatch you can buy right now is the Garmin vivo R it has an optical heart rate sensor and it even has this cool invisible display that only shows up when you receive smart phone notifications misfit and fossil also have a couple good hybrid watches that you should check out but they don't have that display so moving on to fitness trackers we're going to focus on ones that costs between one and two hundred dollars and the best one for most people right now is the Fitbit charge three in my opinion the charge three is the best looking fitness tracker out there Fitbit lets you change out the straps so you can make it as classy or sporty as you'd like it also has a decently sized monochrome OLED screen and that makes it really easy to see notifications and you can even reply to them from this thing and I know this is a really weird thing to geek out about but the software on the charge three is actually really nice to use it kind of makes it feel like more of a SmartWatch than a fitness tracker that's the really nice thing about buying a fitness tracker in 2018 is that they're all getting to be a lot more like smartwatches they'll give you notifications and you can reply to them and you can even pay for things from your wrist now a good fitness tracker has to be good at tracking your fitness and I'd say the charge 3 is pretty accurate it'll track your steps and calories pretty accurately and it's a really good sleep tracker now I say the charge 3 is the best for most people because it doesn't have a built-in GPS and if you like to run outdoors you're gonna want something with GPS the best fitness tracker out there right now with the GPS is the garmin vivosmart now the garmin vivosmart has been out for a little while but that also means it's dropped in price so you can buy it for just about as much as the Fitbit charge 3 but this one also has a GPS and it's pretty thin and light too so the one big downside to the garmin vivosmart is its design Garmin didn't include interchangeable straps on this so you're stuck with this really fitness II looking device aside from that the garmin vivosmart is actually a really nice fitness tracker and I would have no problems recommending it to runners who don't want a big SmartWatch on their wrist overall the garmin vivosmart is pretty on par with the charge 3 in terms of fitness tracking accuracy the reason why we put the charge 3 at the number one spot is because it has better sleep tracking now let's talk cheap fitness trackers because not everybody wants to spend 150 bucks on one of these things so if you're looking for the best budget-friendly fitness tracker you should check out the Xiaomi me band 3 you can get one for only about 25 bucks and that's kind of a steal for what you're getting here the me band 3 tracks all the basics steps calories burned heart rate and sleep and it's actually pretty accurate at tracking all of those but that's all it tracks remember this is 25 bucks so it's not going to have as many sensors as the more expensive options ok so that's it for our list if you want to learn anything more about these fitness trackers or smartwatches be sure to check out the description below 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