Best cheap smart watches
 

Surprisingly, worldwide smartwatch deals have surpassed offers of ordinary Swiss watches. On the other hand, the watch can control a telephone, noting or dismissing calls, changing the music that is playing, or changing the volume. What’s more, with reasonable applications on board, the watch turns into a small PC in its own particular right.

No one cares!

If you're looking for the best cheap deals on smartwatches, look no further. It feels like barely a week goes by without a new smartwatch appearing on the market, and one of the benefits of this high churn rate is that you can often pick up older hardware for decent prices.

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If you head over to Amazon, you can pick up a host of smartwatches for as little as $15, but take it from us, they are awful. We tested a bunch of cheap smartwatches to give you an idea what you'd be dealing with.

What we have below is our hand-picked list of recommended smartwatches, which enables you to save a few dollars/quid/clams. They're not the cheapest, but they are the bona fide deals we feel comfortable recommending.

This is probably the most unique looking of the budget smartwatches that we tested and, for the basics, probably the most efficient too. It paired ok, held its connection for a little while and actually did provide notifications, of incoming calls and text messages.

Until it lost its connection after about half an hour that is. After that we couldn't get it to pair with either an iPhone or a Samsung Galaxy S5 and it was essentially a digital watch, albeit with a pretty metallic face, and a limited battery life. You'll get a day before you have to clamp (quite literally) the world's ugliest charger around it.

While it was paired, we tried to get more out of it – calendar updates, Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp messages and the like. To do this you need to download a separate APK Android app – all in Chinese. And there's not a chance we were ever going to attempt this.

The built in pedometer requires you to manually start it every time you want your steps counted and the other 'apps' – camera shutter, music controls and so on – don't seem to do anything at all.

I'll buy it somewhere and choose what is the best b rand?