![]() It’s a good way to know what’s causing your phone to buzz but actually trying to read anything on the slither of a display is going to be frustrating. You can also get notifications mirrored from your smartphone. In fairness, there’s an option to automatically lock the screen after a short period, wherein a double-tap then wakes it up. Apparently I cross my arms a lot, which I only began to notice when wearing the Vivosport as resting my opposite forearm over the screen triggers the menu and makes the Vivosport vibrate. Possibly due to the glass coating rather than plastic. The one annoyance I encountered early on in testing compared to the Vivosmart 3 is that the long-press interaction is now really easy to do by accident. While it takes some getting your head round, mainly because some menus and options are just represented by slightly vague icons, it begins to make sense after not too long. Screens display how many steps or stairs you’ve climbed and provide useful shortcuts to media controls for your paired smartphone as well as the weather.Ī long press of the display brings up another menu where you can begin tracking an activity or change settings. Everything is organised in a vertical menu you swipe up and down to scroll through. The interface used to navigate menus and interact with the Vivosport is identical to the Vivosmart 3. Next to the similarly-priced Samsung Gear Fit2‘s Super AMOLED display the difference couldn’t be more night and day. The graphics and interface are so basic, and the backlighting so low quality that any colour gets washed out anyway. In practice, it doesn’t really make much difference. What sets it apart from the Vivosmart models is that it’s now colour. The display uses a transflective memory in pixel display with a 72 x 144 resolution. The Garmin Vivosport has a glass coated display, which feels lot nicer than the plastic on the Vivosmart 3. The band has a good amount of stretch to it, much like the Vivosmart 3, so it feels really comfortable even when you’re wearing it tight for better contact with the optical heart rate monitor on the back. If it helps in deciding, I have small wrists and I was still able to wear the large option set to the tightest setting. The Vivosport uses a standard watch buckle and, as the silicone bands aren’t replaceable, you’ll need to pick the right size for your wrist at the time of purchase. At 10.9mm thick, it’s not the most slender, but it is at least less chunky than the Vivosmart HR+.Īs such, aside from deciding on whether you want a little bit of colour, the only other decision is what size. While the likes of Fitbit have increasingly tried to dress up their fitness trackers with customisation and more discreet designs, Garmin simply embraces them for what they are – pieces of tech rather than fashion-first devices. The Vivosport is very much in keeping with Garmin’s rather utilitarian designs. They all have a black front, but there are options with a lime green or red accent on the underside for some extra visual flourish. The Vivosport follows in the footsteps of the aforementioned Vivosmart models with a slim design that’s available in a few different finishes. Related: Best fitness trackers Garmin Vivosport – Design and comfort These all combine to make Garmin Vivosport a great fitness companion for runners and fitness enthusiasts looking to take exercising more seriously. You also get useful metrics such as VO2 Max estimations, Fitness Age score, an improved Garmin Connect companion app and useful smartphone notifications. Once again, the Vivosport is water-resistant to 50 metres, making it perfectly safe to take into the pool, and has great battery life of up to seven days. You can almost consider the Vivosport an amalgamation of the Garmin Vivosmart HR+ and Garmin Vivosmart 3 (yes I get as confused as anyone by all the models), bringing the strength training rep counting, stress-level monitoring and guided breathing exercises of the latter. It now has a slightly more fun design, alongside a new colour touchscreen display. The new Garmin Vivosport can be considered a follow up to one of our favourite GPS-equipped fitness trackers in recent years, the Garmin Vivosmart HR+.
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