If you’re looking to upgrade your smartwatch and you’re trying to decide between the brand new Google Pixel Watch 4 and Samsung Galaxy Watch 8, you’ve come to the right place. Both made it onto our list of the best smartwatches, and both are strong contenders if you prefer Android over iOS.

Both watches are designed to be worn 24/7, and track an awful lot more than just your steps — both will measure your heart rate, sleep, menstrual cycle, and more. Yet as a fitness editor with over a decade's worth of experience reviewing watches, it’s always somewhere I start when looking at new watches. If you’re spending hundreds of dollars on a watch, you expect it to do the basics well.

To find out more, I strapped both watches to my wrist and took 11,000 steps, while manually counting my steps at

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