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Hang around the Tom’s Guide fitness desk long enough, and we’ll probably strap a fitness tracker to your wrist and ask you to go and count your steps. Sure, step counting isn’t the best measurement of how fit you are or how good a fitness tracker is, but our thinking is that if a watch…

The best health and fitness wearables are racing to pack as many features as possible into their small form factors, and the three most recent Pixel Watch models — the Pixel Watch 3, Pixel Watch 4, and Pixel Watch 5 — are now getting a major upgrade.

If you’re looking for the best fitness trackers and smartwatches, you probably have a few Garmin watches on your list. The company offers several smartwatches and screenless fitness trackers, and it regularly improves them with software updates. Now, it is adding useful new features to several of its smartwatches, including the Fenix 8 series, the…

Apple unveiled the Apple Watch Series 12 earlier this month, and it’s now officially available to order. While we normally have to wait for holiday sales like Prime Day and Black Friday to score a discount on new Apple devices, Amazon has surprised us with a first-time price cut. • Shop more daily deals at…

Garmin has released multiple updates to the Fenix 8 family of late, despite replacing them with the newer Fenix 9 and Fenix 9 Pro. For instance, the company delivered Software Version 23.31 to the Fenix E and Fenix 8 on September 10, but not to the Fenix 8 Pro.

The popular Fitbit Air is one of the best fitness trackers of 2026 thanks to its wallet-friendly price tag, reliable tracking, and simple-to-use design. However, it’s far from the only affordable, screen- and subscription-free fitness tracker out there.

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We loved Garmin’s screenless Cirqa tracker when we reviewed it earlier this year, but that doesn’t mean it’s a perfect device. And that’s exactly what some Garmin users have discovered recently, with the device seemingly deleting many people’s workouts as soon as they’re finished.

Buying a new smartwatch has become difficult. If the one on your wrist still tracks your workouts, shows your notifications, and gets you through the day, why spend another few hundred dollars on a new one? Plenty of people are asking themselves the same question.

When it comes to high-end adventure watches, the Garmin Fenix has been in a league of its own for a while. No other sports watch or smartwatch can match the range and depth of features you get on a Fenix, and the strongest competition to the Garmin Fenix 9 Pro comes from past models of…