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Sometimes your smartwatch is best off your wrist

All it takes is one wrong move.

Heavy steel housings and thick crystals with a raised bezel that acts as a guard would make a smartwatch as tough as an old Soviet submarine commander's watch. Manufacturers have to compromise to deliver the features we demand built in a way that will withstand normal life yet still be within a certain price range. Some more expensive smartwatches will fare better than others at certain tasks — and you'll need to pay more for that — but the companies making them and the people buying them have decided on an acceptable price.

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