A watch has not been perceived as just a time-telling device for men. It is the easiest and best accessory available for men. With the emergence and evolution of smartphones, there has been a considerable decline in the usage of wristwatches. Even though it enhances the personality of a man, it was suddenly felt unnecessary and outdated.
I guess that is the reason why companies chose to revolutionize the wrist-watch into a Smartwatch. This innovation has been recognized as extremely helpful, convenient and super-stylish.
A man can now complete his rugged or party looks with this associate feeling confident and well-off. You can consider it as a miniature version of your Smartphone. It can help you with so many day-to-day tasks and activities along with special care for your health.
There are many features a man needs to take care of while buying a Smartwatch. Below is the list of all the exquisite reasons you should own a smartwatch :
- The Macho look: You can enhance your personality by matching your outfits with the desired smartwatch as many of them come with interchangeable straps and customized watch faces.
- Physical Activity Tracker: If you are a gym person you can activate features such as step-tracking, calories burned, distance covered, etc. to keep track of your complete exercise regime.
- Health monitor: As we already know, the risk of heart attack is twice as likely in men as compared to women. So, you must keep a check on your heart rate, blood pressure and sleep hours to lead a happy and healthy life. The good news is that a smartwatch is capable of handling all of these with nicely recorded readings for detailed reference.
- Contactless Payments: Many smartwatches have included NFC through Google Pay or Samsung Pay or Garmin Pay to make hassle-free transactions.
- App support: You will find a smartwatch version of almost all apps available in the market like Uber, Maps, Google Assistant, etc..
- GPS and Smartphone Connectivity: Almost all smartwatches are capable of connecting to smartphones or are available with dedicated sim slots. You can get notifications about calls, messages, emails and you can respond to them too.
- Music on-the-go: Some of the smartwatches have adequate storage memory to store tons of songs while others can connect to your mobile music store.
Many smartwatches render some or all of these qualities. But, there are certain smartwatches more suitable for men than women. You can also go through the best 10 smartwatches for women too. Now, let us take a quick look at the best 10 smartwatches for men.
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List of The Best Smartwatches For Men
[table id=3 /]1# Apple Watch Series 4
Apple has always been the most innovative and royal brand when it comes to smartphones and smartwatches. With the launch of various upgrades and new watches, it almost always remains our favorite.
Apple Watch Series 4 is the latest iteration and is the best smartwatch for iPhone users, although it is compatible with Android too.
With a sleek and stylish design, you can surely feel your heart racing while wearing this masterpiece. It is available in four variants –40mm and 44mm sizes, and with or without LTE. The Apple watch provides all the required health trackers with an additional ECG feature that provides heart-rate instantly.
The alert signaling feature is to the point and provides an alert for variation in heart-rate savings from life-threatening conditions.
Key Features:
- Display: 78 inch, 448 X 368 pixels,
- Wi-Fi, BlueTooth, GPS, NFC empowered,
- 16 GB internal memory,
- Price: $500
2# TAG Heuer Connected Modular 45 ‘Golf Edition’
If you are a golf fan, then Tag Heuer has dedicated an updated version of it’s Connected modular 45 named Tag Heuer Connected Modular 45’golf edition’. The wearable has a comparatively more durable design with a ceramic bezel and a ‘Tag Heuer Golf’ app that can display 39,000 golf courses from around the world, with a regularly updated database of shot distances, course layouts, hazards all displayed on your wrist.
As the name suggests, it has a sporty and rugged design with a 45mm body (just like the previous edition)making it the biggest Wear OS watch. The surrounding bezel is numbered 1 to 18 indicating the 18 hole golf game.
It is a perfect smartwatch for a Golf lover!
The watch focuses on improving your golf skills by personifying a map and recommending the best shots and showing the hole as the target. So, if you are a golfer and are looking for improvements and competitions in your game, this can be your best choice.
Key Features:
- Display:39 inch AMOLED, 400 X 400 resolution touchscreen
- Runs on Google’s Wear OS
- Built-in GPS & NFC
- Price: $1550
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3# Fossil Sport Smartwatch
Fossil has established itself as one of the best brands in watches with the newest technologies and peculiar design style. Undoubtedly it has impressed us with its new range of Fossil Sport Smartwatches.
This Unisex smartwatch is also included in our Best woman smartwatches article. This watch runs Google’s newest Wear OS and includes the latest Snapdragon 3100 chipset that guarantees better battery life and improved performance. The watch comes in two sizes- 41mm case and 43 mm case with six fun colors and some with matching straps.
You can actually spark a cool look and hit the gym with negligible weight felt on your wrist, as this watch is the sleekest and lightest of all fossil watches.
The new redesigned Wear OS is quite easy to use and provides a better user experience with smooth scrolling and faster loading of notifications and results of Google Assistant. Fitness freak men can find the Google Fit app very helpful with a complete overview of your activity with in-depth metrics.
Key Features:
- Display: 19/1.29inch AMOLED with 390 X 390 pixels,
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 3100
- 512 MB RAM, 4 GB storage
- In-built GPS, NFC
- Water-resistant
- Price: $275
4# Garmin Forerunner 945
The Garmin Forerunner 945 is the successor of the very popular Forerunner 935 and looks almost the same. The Garmin watches are not a touchscreen but the standard 5 navigation buttons make it easy to control and access the required apps.
The all-black design makes it wearable at every place and comfortable enough to pit on long hours and even during workout sessions. It is equipped to record flawlessly with modes of kayaking, cross-country seeing, yoga apart from the basic running, cycling and swimming.
The gym model is a must-have for gym-hitters as it automatically identifies the exercise you are doing and counts your reps. The new Garmin sets up training plans for events ranging from 5K to a half marathon and beams them over to the watch to follow workouts on your wrist and mainly aims at triathletes and runners.
It has a perfectly deadly combination of battery and performance including onboard music support, streaming services like Deezer and Spotify. The device lasts for 2 weeks in smartwatch mode, 36 hours in GPS mode, and 10 hours in GPS mode with music playing.
Key Features:
- Display:2 inch , 240X240 pixels,
- Bluetooth, WiFi, ANT+, and GLONASS/Galileo/GPS connectivity 5 ATM water and dust resistant
- Price: $600
5# Xiaomi Amazfit GTR Smartwatch
The Xiaomi Amazfit GTR smartwatch comes in two models depending on the dial-size – 42mm and 47mm. The watch has an amazing design and is built with durable materials. It comes in vintage color variants and gives quite a masculine look.
This Chinese smartwatch has a built-in rechargeable battery that can work for about 40 days in a single charge. It can be connected to your phone for accessing the camera and applications such as AMAZFIT.
It is loaded with sports features like track running time, pace, calories burned, altitude while hiking, along with sleep monitoring, heart-rate sensors, pedometer and many more.
Key Features:
- Display: 1.39inch touchscreen AMOLED
- Bluetooth 5.0, GPS-enabled,
- 16MB RAM and 64 MB ROM,
- NFC with Alipay,
- Price: $150
6# Mobvoi Ticwatch Pro 4G
Mobvoi Ticwatch Pro 4G is an updated version of the previous Ticwatch Pro blessed with some solid features. This is a hybrid smartwatch with dual displays of AMOLED and FSTN LCD. The display is one of the striking features that allow you to check the time and date along with the activity tracking details like step-count or calories burned at a single glance.
The watch is extensively built of stainless steel dial with an equally paired strap that makes it a complementary accessory.
The watch offers all the activity tracking smoothly with the basic sensors like PPG heart-rate sensors, gyroscope, off-body sensors, etc., but it lacks the sleep tracking feature which the company has assured to update soon.
Key Features:
- Display: 39inch dual display,
- 1GB RAM and 4GB ROM,
- 4G/LTE FDD, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and NFC powered,
- Price: $250
7# Emporio Armani Art 5003
If you are a watch-fan and like to collect different watches for different occasions, you must have surely come across the company Armani. With the legacy to introduce the finest watches, Armani has taken a step ahead by introducing various connected watches, one of which is the Emporio Armani Art5003.
It outbursts a superb styling with internal features mastered by Fossil resulting in a completely irresistible combo. The screen compounds to an attractive slim-case with an impressively thin bezel, which makes it looks larger than it is. The available watch-faces are rich with many options to choose from. Google’s Wear OS flushes it with all the latest features like Activity tracking, Google Assistant, NFC, Google Fit, etc..
If you are a person having posh choices and looking for royal looks, this is indeed a great buy.
Key Features:
- Display: 19inch AMOLED, 390 X 390 pixels,
- Can be paired with phone’s GPS,
- Interchangeable straps,
- Price: $318
8# Huawei Watch 2
Huawei Watch 2 is a smartwatch loaded with features and king of sporty and chunky designs. The watch doesn’t have an eye-appealing look but surely does attract you with unique features.
It is uniquely designed to survive during complex workouts or gym sessions but is still comfortable and light-weight.
With the latest Wear OS, it includes features such as scientific sleep tracking, heart-rate monitoring, offline music with Google Play Music, live workouts, workout coach and the list goes on. It masters customizable battery settings with 3 weeks on Watch-Mode, 2 days on Smart Power Saving Mode and 7 hours of constant GPS usage.
Key Features:
- Display: 2inch, 390 X 390 resolution,
- Android Wear 2.0,
- GPS, NFC,
- Price: $264
9# Samsung Gear S3 Frontier Smartwatch
Have you ever thought of moving out without your smartphone? If your answer is no, then let us inform you that it is possible with the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier. The smartwatch has its LTE, Wi-Fi, GPS, NFC, voice control and all the other features you crave for.
This is a men’s-only watch with a big and broad design but attractive and stylish at the same time. It is equipped with Tizen OS and works equally well with Android and iPhones. The OS comprises of two layers which can be achieved by swiping either side or by pressing the bottom button. The apps are accessible with the rotating bezel and you can install apps directly to your smartwatch instead of downloading to the phone first.
Fitness can be tracked using the Gear Fit app that tracks a variety of activities like squats, lunges, cycling, elliptical,etc.. Although you will notice the lack of compatible apps due to Samsung’s personalized Tizen OS being used, it still manages to provide all the basic apps required.
Key Features:
- Display: 3inch AMOLED with 360 X 360 pixels,
- 768 MB RAM and 4 GB internal memory,
- Bluetooth 4.2, Wi-Fi, GPS, NFC/MST,
- Price: $250
10# Asus Zenwatch 3
Asus Zenwatch 3 is a truly refined and attractive smartwatch with the latest Andriod Wear OS. The watch has a great circular display with an optimum amount of brightness and customizable chronograph buttons.
It is devoid of heart-rate monitoring, GPS and NFC but does imply Google Assistant, Maps, and steps tracking. The ZenFit app can track push-ups and sit-downs accurately. The watch uses Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 2100 that delivers a fine performance.
The watch-faces are customization with more dynamic pieces of information available at a glance. It is shower-proof with IP67 but not swim-proof.
Key Features:
- Display: 39inch AMOLED with 400 X 400 resolution,
- 512 MB RAM, 4 GB storage,
- Price: $200
So these were the 10 best smartwatches for Men in 2020, If you have any other smartwatch in your mind, which should be part of this list, then comment below.
