Best Smartwatches 2017 that You must Purchase Right Now

When it comes to purchasing a smartwatch, preferences differ from user to user. For some people, a smartwatch featuring a fitness tracker or a GPS is sufficient. On the other hand, there are users who want complete features like fitness tracking, smartphone notifications, apps, and media streaming in their smartwatch.

If you’re one of such users, you may have realized by now that finding a smartwatch that completely suffices your needs is not less easy than climbing Mount Everest. Fret not! We have brought a list for you. In this post, we’ll discuss 10 best smartwatches 2017 that you must purchase right now. Here, we’ll talk about all latest Android and Apple Smartwatches. So, you can go through the list and select the smartwatch you want to buy:
1 Huawei Watch

Courtesy of its stunning design and extreme build quality, Huawei Watch is regarded as one of the best Android Wear Smartwatches 2017. It’s stainless steel case and sapphire crystal font looks great when you wear it. Moreover, the watch is dust proof and water resistant.

Specifications

• Android Wear OS
• 4in screen 400×400
• 286ppi pixel density
• Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor
• 512 MB RAM
• 4 GB of internal storage
• Bluetooth 4.1
• IP67

You can also find various sensors like an accelerometer, a barometer, and a heart-rate monitor within the gadget.

At a price of $360, Huawei may seem a little pricey. Still, it looks great when you wear it.

2 Apple Watch Series 2

Apple Watch Series 2 takes into account all the issues faced in the original smartwatch like lack of GPS, lack of water resistance, and short battery life – and try to solve them systematically. Also, the design is quite stunning and looks great when your wear it.

The new Apple watch also serves as a reliable option if you’re interested in fitness tracking.

Specifications

• S2 Dual Core processor
• Retina Display with Force Touch (2 times brighter than the original)
• Digital Crown
• High rate sensor
• WiFi 802.11b/g/n 2.4GHz
• Bluetooth 4.0
• Water resistance
• GPS
• Up to 18 hours battery life

3 Apple Watch Series 1

Apple’s original smartwatch is also a great option to consider if you require a smartwatch for basic purposes and don’t require features like GPS or swim-proof design.

The gadget has the same dual-core processor featured in Apple Watch Series 2. It runs on WatchOS 3 and has several promising features like fitness tracking, Apple Pay, and integration with iPhone.

Yet another difference that you may see is in its display, which is about as half as bright as the latest watch Series 2. Still, you can think about buying it.

Specifications

• 9×10.5 mm
• 50g body
• Stainless Steel/Ceramic back
• AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
• 390×312 pixels
• watchOS 3
• 250 mAh battery
• 512MB RAM
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
• 0, LE
• Accelerometer, gyro, heart-rate sensors

4 Samsung Gear S2​​​​​​​

The major attraction of Samsung Gear S2 is its sleek and attractive design. Apart from this, it has some really interesting features like fitness tracking, a rotating bezel for navigating the UI and enhanced app capabilities. Perhaps that’s the reason, it is regarded as one of the best Android wear smartwatches available right now.

Specifications

• 3×49.8×11.4 mm
• Circular watch face
• 2-inch 360×360 AMOLED display
• 1GHz Exynos 3250
• 512MB RAM
• 250mAh battery
• Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and NFC connectivity

5 Motorola Moto 360​​​​​​​

Motorola Moto 360 has everything that you can expect in an ideal smartwatch, i.e. Luxurious design, extreme build quality, and top-notch specifications. Moreover, you can easily afford it.

This doesn’t mean that the smartwatch is free from flaws. It has extremely poor battery life (one day) and a lower resolution screen. Also, some users may find the smartwatch size too big.

Still, its compelling design, jaw-dropping features, and affordable price range make Moto 360 a worthy option to consider among top smartwatches.

Specification

• Android Wear OS
• Circular 1.56in LCD display 290×320 pixels, 205ppi
• 4 GB internal storage
• 512 MB RAM
• Optical heart rate monitor
• TI OMAP 3 processor
• Bluetooth 4.0 LE
• Pedometer
• 320mAh battery
• Wireless charging (dock included)
• IP67 dust and water resistant
• 9 mm
• 49 g

6 Samsung Gear S3 Frontier​​​​​​​

Samsung Gear S3 Frontier is the cheaper version of the smartwatch from Samsung. To be honest, the gadget offers similar specifications as its predecessor. The only new thing that the gadget has added is its GPS functionality. Moreover, it requires a smartphone to accomplish most of the tasks.

Still, at an affordable price of $125, it’s not a bad bet if you’re looking for a simple yet affordable smartwatch.

Specifications

• 3” Circular Super AMOLED
• 360 x 360, 278ppi
• Full Color Always On Display
• Corning® Gorilla® Glass SR+
• Dual core 1.0 GHz
• Tizen-based Wearable Platform 2.3.2
• 46 x 49 x 12.9
• 62g (without band)
• Strap 22mm
• 4GB Internal memory, 768MB RAM
• Bluetooth® 4.2, Wi-Fi b/g/n
• NFC, MST, A-GPS/Glonass
• Accelerometer, Gyro, Barometer, HRM, Ambient light
• 380mAh
• Wireless charging (WPC Inductive)
• IP68 water & dust resistance

7 LG Watch Urbane​​​​​​​

There are many things that make LG Watch Urbane a worthy contender in our list of the best smartwatches 2017. It has a brilliant design, the latest version of Android Wear OS, and promising features like WiFi connectivity and Corning Gorilla Glass 3. The battery life is also pretty good.

At a price of $320, the watch is quite expensive yet still a good option to consider.

Specifications

• Android Wear
• 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400
• 4GB storage
• 512MB RAM
• Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth 4.1 LE
• 1.3in POLED screen (320×320, 245ppi)
• Voice mic
• Stainless steel cover
• Genuine leather strap
• Corning Gorilla Glass 3
• 410mAh battery
• IP67
• 46x52x10.9mm
• 67g

8 Fossil Q Founder​​​​​​​

Fossil Q Founder is the next entry in our list of the best smartwatches 2017. The smartwatch undoubtedly has a stunning design. Hardware specifications are also quite good (although some features like heart rate monitor and GPS are missing). We also didn’t like the flat tyre effect of the screen. The smartwatch could be a lot better if they had not included it.

Still given its affordable price range and brilliant specifications, the smartwatch is a great choice to consider.

Specifications

• Android Wear (Android 4.4 or later) and (iPhone 5 onwards, with iOS 8.2 or later)
• 5in, 360×326, 240ppi
• Intel Atom Z34XX CPU
• 1GB RAM
• 4GB internal storage
• Accelerometer
• Ambient Light Sensor
• Gyroscope
• Vibration/Haptics engine
• Microphone
• Wireless charging with included dock
• IP67 dust and water resistant
• 400mAh
• 47mm case
• 13mm thick
• 156g with metal strap
• Bluetooth 4.1 LE
• Wi-Fi

9 Motorola Moto 360 Sport​​​​​​​

Motorola Moto 360 Sport is specially designed for fitness freaks. So, it has all the features related to fitness like GPS, Optical Heart rate monitor, Barometer, and Vibration/Haptics engine.

While GPS and other sensors are quite accurate, we regret that we can’t say the same for Heart rate monitor. We still didn’t admire the flat tyre on screen. They should replace it because it just doesn’t appeal to the hard-core fitness fans.

Despite all these flaws, Motorola Moto 360 is one the best smartwatches 2017 you can buy in $250.

Specifications

• Android Wear (Android 4.3 or later) and (iPhone 5 onwards, with iOS 8.2 or later)
• 37in (35mm) LCD screen, 360×325, 263ppi
• Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 with 1.2 GHz quad-core CPU
• Adreno 305, 450MHz GPU
• 512MB RAM
• 4GB internal storage
• Accelerometer
• Ambient Light Sensor
• Gyroscope
• Vibration/Haptics engine
• Optical heart rate monitor (PPG)
• GPS
• Barometric Altimeter
• Dual digital mics
• Wireless charging with included dock
• IP67 dust and water resistant
• 300mAh battery
• 45mm diameter
• 5mm thick
• 54g
• Bluetooth 4.0 LE
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g

10 Huawei Fit

Huawei Fit is the last entry in our list of the best smartwatches 2017. There are a lot of things to like about this wonderful smartwatch from Huawei. It has a stunning design, brilliant display, decent battery life, and important features like water resistance.

To our greatest surprise, swim-tracking is also offered in the gadget. However, it doesn’t have a heart rate monitor.

Specifications

• 208 x 208 monochrome LCD screen
• 80mAh battery (claimed battery life of six days)
• Heart rate sensor
• Swim tracking
• Accelerometer
• Gyroscope