The Samsung Galaxy Watch8 is Samsung's latest flagship smartwatch, and it's got some serious running smarts. A new slimmer, lighter shape and strap redesign means it sits snug on your wrist, preventing movement during running, while on the metrics front it tracks everything from asymmetry in your stride to stiffness in your gait. A new Running Coach feature offers you one of over 150 different running plans for your chosen distance, switching intelligently as you progress based on your performance.
It seems like, for the first time, we might have a Samsung watch in our best running watches list. However, the running watch category tends to get dominated by one name in particular: Garmin. The best Garmin watches last for days or even weeks as opposed to Samsung's paltry 40 hours, and come stacked with great running features such as Hill Score, measuring your effectiveness up hills, and easy running route creation. Can Samsung's latest offering stack up to a top-flight Garmin watch? Time we found out.
