A Great Smartwatch to Sleep With

As Aaliyah sang in her 2000 hit, “Try Again,” “If at first you don’t succeed, oh, then dust yourself off and try again.” Google did that. It went back to the drawing board, scrapped everything except the look of the Pixel Watch, and made a better Pixel Watch 2. This year’s model has a better … Read more

Google Pixel Watch 2 Review: About Time

I had a lot of gripes about the first-ever Pixel Watch. It launched with a lot of missing functionality you’d expect for a $350 wearable. Over the past year, Google has kept its promise to improve the product by periodically adding new features to the smartwatch. Now, with the release of the new Pixel Watch … Read more

October Prime Day 2023: best smartwatch and fitness tracker deals

Amazon’s fall Prime Day event is underway. For more deals we recommend across all categories, check out our full roundup here. Now that product launch season is fully underway, it’s a good time of year to find deals and discounts on your favorite smartwatches and fitness trackers, especially if you don’t mind getting last year’s models. … Read more

This Garmin smartwatch convinced my daughter to switch over from Fitbit

Matthew Miller/ZDNET Regular readers know that I can usually be found with a smartwatch on one wrist and a Garmin GPS sports watch on the other. On the contrary, my oldest daughter has long been a Fitbit user. But over the past six months, her Fitbit Sense’s battery life has been far from ideal, and the … Read more

Samsung Might Have Leaked the Galaxy Ring in Wearable App

Photograph: Jack Skeens (Shutterstock) Samsung could have given away its “yet another factor” too quickly. Korean Samsung customers discovered icons depicting what appears like a hoop you’d put on in your finger within the Galaxy Wearable app this week. The invention since sparked discussions about whether or not this implies the Samsung Galaxy Ring will debut … Read more

Your Smartwatch Band Is Most likely Lined in Dangerous Micro organism. This is How one can Clear It

Do you frequently sanitize your smartwatch band? You may wish to now. A scientific research printed in Might examined 20 completely different watch and health tracker bands and located 95% had been contaminated with a minimum of one sort of dangerous micro organism that may trigger infections.  The paper detailed how researchers examined bands worn … Read more