Apple, Huawei and Samsung retain their top rankings in the smartwatch market for 2020

[Redaktion]

The Apple Watch, Huawei Watch GT and Galaxy Watch lines helped their respective OEMs maintain their leading positions in the smartwatch space in 2020. This was a year in which the market showed relatively little growth, although its premium segment enjoyed a "significant" uptick.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-Huawei-and-Samsung-retain-their-top-rankings-in-the-smartwatch-market-for-2020.526390.0.html

[S.Yu]

Garmin's GPS watches seem to me like the most functional, because they function where you don't have a cell signal and can save phone battery, though the Fenix series remains quite expensive.

[kek]

This just goes to show how many people like to trash money just to feel part of a group.

Except for a few exceptions, like those Garmin GPS devices, I see no point & value in paying +100$ for an Apple Watch, or any of those Android Smartwatch. Like, they literally have no groundbreaking functions, they have a small screen, for calls they are uncomfortable, the battery is smaller than in most phones, and on top of that, most models are not even that easy to repair.

[A]

@kek - I think $150 and below is a reasonable price for a fully featured smartwatch. Above that it isn't.

Many of the smartwatch features you hear about are mostly useless. (Pretty much any non-passive feature, so ECG (only has 1 lead, not 12 liek a real ECG so it can't test much conditions and it also is less accurate), EDR(if you sit down for 2 minutes doing nothing, you dont need a watch to tell you that you are stressed), blood pressure(you need to use a cuff to calibrate it every few months, so you need the cuff anyways and the cuff will be more accurate) and etc). It might help if they let you test everything at once instead of everything being its own separate time wasting test.

The more useful stuff are the passive things like sleep tracking, step counting, continues heart rate monitor, fall detection and of course telling the time.