Budget smartwatches used to be an easy joke: washed-out screens, step counts by vibes, and battery claims measured in optimism. That era is over.
Two weeks, two wrists
We wore a $59 challenger next to the Apple Watch for two weeks: sleep tracking, workouts, notifications, the lot. The gap is smaller than you think, but it is not zero, and where it shows up matters.
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