Here’s how Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 6 lineup stacks up against the Google Pixel Watch

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Now that Samsung’s announced its new Galaxy Watch 6 lineup during this week’s Unpacked event, there are even more Android wearables than ever to choose from. Along with a physical rotating bezel, the new lineup sports even more health features than its predecessor, like passive irregular heart rhythm alerts, personalized heart rate zones, and more advanced sleep tracking capabilities.

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 comes in two different flavors: the standard version and the Classic. The new wearables start at $299.99 and will be available on August 11th, though you can preorder them today. However, before you whip out your credit card, you might want to research how they measure up to another solid Android rival: the Google Pixel Watch. Released last year, the Pixel Watch is one of our favorites, but it’s different in a couple of key ways.

Price, for example, is one of the most obvious differentiators. The Google Pixel Watch costs $349.99, and you’ll pay an extra $50 for cellular connectivity. In contrast, the cheapest Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 starts at $299.99, while the Classic model starts at $399.99. As with the Pixel Watch, you’ll have to pay an additional $50 for cellular connectivity.

Those are just the surface-level differences, though. When you dive deeper, you’ll find that the smartwatches vary in terms of health features, battery life, and other ways. To help you decide which wearable is the right one for you, we’ve compared some of the most relevant features so you can see for yourself how they stack up against one another on paper.

Besides price, one of the most obvious differences is that, as mentioned before, the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 comes in a standard and a Classic version. The standard comes in two sizes, 40mm and 44mm, while the Classic comes in 43mm and 47mm. In contrast, there’s only one version of the Google Pixel Watch, and it comes in just one size: 41mm. That could be problematic for those with larger wrists.

In terms of looks and build quality, the Google wearable sports a beautiful, circular domed display, but it lacks the Classic’s physical rotating bezel, and its bezels are thicker. However, you do have more color options when you buy the Pixel Watch: gold, silver, gray, and black. In contrast, Samsung only offers two color options per wearable and, in the case of the Galaxy Watch 6, based on size. The standard wearable comes in gray, but the 40mm also comes in a gold shade, while the 44mm version offers a silver option. Meanwhile, the Classic is available in black and silver.

Finally, the Google Pixel Watch is also made from a premium material — stainless steel — like the Classic version of the Samsung wearable. In contrast, the standard Galaxy Watch 6 is just made from aluminum.

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Moving away from looks to features, Samsung’s lineup comes with a few advanced sensors the Google Pixel Watch lacks. Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 6 can measure body composition, skin temperature, irregular heart rhythm notifications, and blood pressure, which the Google Pixel can’t. But you need to be a Samsung phone owner to use the wearable to measure blood pressure and take an EKG, which puts those outside of the Samsung ecosystem at a disadvantage. It’s actually one of the reasons we recommended the Pixel Watch over the last-gen Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 if you don’t own a Samsung phone.