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Samsung Galaxy Watch6 Classic

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Price: £369 from fave.co/3H4CRY2

If you have an iPhone and want a smartwatch, then the Apple Watch is an easy choice. It’s not so simple if you have an Android phone.

Though the first Google Pixel Watch is a good wearable overall, it has poor battery life and forces you to buy into the Fitbit ecosystem for fitness tracking.

I’ve used both an Apple Watch Series 8 and Pixel Watch extensively over the past year and enjoyed both, so I have been pleasantly surprised to find that after a week with it, the Galaxy Watch6 Classic might be my favourite of the three.

It’s the best Android smartwatch by a distance, beating Google at its own game. With good design, top hardware including a clever rotating bezel and genuine two-day battery (with one caveat), it’s going to be hard for the upcoming Pixel Watch 2 to beat.

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Many previous Samsung smartwatches have had a physical rotating bezel, but the company ditched it in 2022. Thankfully it’s back on the Watch6 Classic. It’s a great feature that I’m surprised more companies haven’t copied. It helps that Samsung’s version of WearOS is based around scrolling left to right, meaning you turn the bezel to scroll through tiles of useful information, or to scroll

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