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If you live in th e Apple Ecosystem like with several devices (or at least an iPhone) then Apple Watch is the way to go. It can do so much more than the fitness part. Many useful apps also have a Watch version.

Apple Watch 6 is perfectly suited to both the fitness and all the many other things, an Apple Watch can do. - No need to go for newer models. You don't need more than Apple Watch 6. But, of course, it is always possible to "invent" extra needs. That is what Apple wants us to do all the time with all devices.

The Apple Watch is a great smartwatch for many people, but not for all. Fortunately today there are many options available to choose from. Think about what are the things that you will want to do with your smartwatch and look for the device that best match your characteristics, preferences and needs.

Apple is the best smart watches out there. Either Apple or Garmin. Apple is the way to go. Forget abt third party crap

Have you thought about getting a refurbished? I bought a stainless steel S7 for £220 on loop mobile.

What is your budget? Can you squeeze in SE or SE 2nd gen?

It depends what you mean by fitness. If you’re mostly strength training then I’d say other than recording heart rate and time Apple Watch isn’t very useful (it’s like tracking a walk workout).

If you’re into cardio fitness then sure, you’ll use it a lot more. I still use it to track my strength training but that’s out of habit than anything else. I never look at the stats after the workout. Though, having this history can be very helpful if you use it with other apps to export the history to see the amount of times you’ve done an exercises monthly, quarterly or annually.

Other than fitness it really depends on the use case. Some things you may not even know you’ll use until you get it. I use the watch a lot for tracking time, setting timers, checking messages, weather and controlling media.

It’s a good extension to an iPhone which allows you to avoid having to pick up your phone for many functions I listed I do above.

The Apple Watch is consistently the most accurate non-professional wearable.

What is more important is that it requires an iPhone to work. It does not even work with an iPad, you have to have an iPhone. That being said, if you have one, and you get a watch, disabling all notifications and the stuff you mentioned you won’t use, you’d likely have a very accurate smartwatch with a really decent battery life. I also turn off most notifications and rarely take a call on my watch, and my watch (S9 now, but my S7 as well at the beginning) routinely nets me ~36h of battery life.

Integration with my phone and only one company is farming my data.