Garmin vívomove Sport, Hybrid 40mm smartwatch, Black

This is a traditional looking analogue watch that illuminates with your data in the bottom half of the screen when you raise your wrist or call it up. You can change what is displayed in this home screen. You can also scroll through the rest of your data by swiping. Brilliant. Just what I wanted. I can’t abide just having a black blob on my wrist. This is far batter and looks so much more stylish when wearing it throughout the day. The battery lasts a few days. The Garmin app is great and the watch offers the full range of health and fitness statistics including swimming BUT NOT stair climbs. There is no GPS built in but it will pair with a Bluetooth phone to track your workout. It will also provide maps of routes you’ve done via the App. You can receive email messages and notifications on the screen these call up when they arrive. There is no Garmin pay on this watch but if you pay more you could buy the Style version which does have this, the stair climb function, a better screen and in my opinion is even more stylish.

This is my first sports watch so I have nothing to compare to, but I’ve found it to be pretty good! It has an attractive face, straps have been easy enough to swap out to match different outfits. Battery life is good, I wear it constantly and charge it every 5 days or so. Syncs easily with the Garmin app wherever I am. My only reservation is I think the metrics can be a bit off- sometimes it’s recorded I’ve done 500 steps whilst lying in bed! Or that I’m in REM deep when I’m scrolling through Reddit on a morning. But otherwise it’s been good, would recommend.

Item as described but was 24 hours late, which cost me a day of waiting.

For the price I thought this was a bargain. I’ve always used Amazfit/Zepp until now, but thought this time I’d upgrade to a more respected brand. Overall the user experience is much worse than I experienced with Amazfit watches. The main reason this scores so low for me, is the pressure sensitive screen that cannot be locked. Some mornings I’d wake up with no battery remaining. This baffled me at first, until I realised what was happening. In my sleep, the watch was starting activity tracking, which would deplete the battery and prevent any sleep data being collected. Just putting pressure on the watch face will activate the screen, and it only takes a couple of presses to start an activity. Having a way to lock the screen would be the only way to recover from this design flaw. Unfortunately Garmin missed this also.

Brilliant watch. Easy to use, plenty of helpful features, comfortable to wear, and fantastic quality! I purchased this watch after losing a previous, more basic Garmin watch, which I loved. I haven't been disappointed over two years later and am now considering buying another Garmin watch as a spare/different look.

as is the way all the data is displayed. Just make sure you are happy with the size of the display on the watch. For me it's a bit small and with the benefit of hindsight I would have liked it bigger. I bought it because I liked the analogue display, the hands, but the glass is quite reflective and sometimes I find it difficult to see the hands properly

Really happy that you cant tell that it's a smartwatch, but it has all the key functionality for me. Only think i'd love, would be in built GPS, instead of pulling it from the phone. But in practice, it doesnt make a huge difference

You rarely come across tat as poorly designed as this these days. Even knock-off drop shippers on Ali-Express have some self-respect. But this is Garmin. They should not have shipped this product. Yes: this is a budget model, and I confess I was being a bit tight ordering this one when my Huawei GT3 crapped out. I thought it looked nice: it had real analogue hands, a slim form factor, a step-counter, a heart-rate monitor and so on. It did what needed it to do: I am no athlete. No GPS — that is onboarded back onto your phone, though as I tend to take my phone exercising with me anyway, no drama I thought. Now, in fairness — as best as I can tell — the step-counter and heart rate monitor work serviceably well, though it insists on telling me I had a POOR night’s sleep every night, however well I felt like I slept. And the Garmin app is pretty good at displaying your data, too. BUT. Having analogue hands on a digital watch is a bit like putting a horse in front of an internal combustion engine, and they are indeed a bit of a pain, because they tend to get in the way of the tiny display. Garmin’s solution is for the hands to shift to “quarter to three” whenever you look at the watch. This rather defeats the purpose of having analogue hands in the first place. If you don’t believe me, look at the video. It will then display a value on the tiny little screen that is NOT THE TIME. It is instead telling you how long you have been walking for. WHO CARES HOW LONG I HAVE BEEN WALKING FOR? I want to know the time! Now, this might be because I have set it to automatically track exercise when I start moving, and I could disable that. But interacting with the watch to start exercise is a trial because it has no buttons — not one — and you have to optimistically tap on the glass to get it to do things. Sometimes it reacts, sometimes it doesn’t. So it is easier to set it to automatically record exercise. This lack of buttons, by the way, is annoying when the alarm goes off, because it is a crapshoot whether you can switch it off or not, and the longer it buzzes the more the battery drains. I often find myself shouting and jabbing furiously at the watch just to get it to stop buzzing or give me some useful information. This increases my heart rate. Not the intended effect. The digital display is tiny — old codgers like yours truly can barely read it without reading specs — and it only illuminates when the watch senses through its gyros that you are looking at it. That involves the watch being cocked somewhat toward the sky. Of course, at night, when you are lying in bed and it is dark, if you look at the watch it is not pointing at the sky. It is pointing towards you, lying in bed. Therefore the digital display does not illuminate, and whether or not the hards are telling the right time (who knows?) you can't see them because they are not luminous. Battery life is dismal: I was used to a fortnight or so on my Huawei: but this thing is flat within a day or so. You are constantly having to recharge it. Upshot: I am currently in a haggling war on eBay to buy a second-hand Huawei GT3 to replace my broken one. This Vivomove junk goes in the bin. Avoid.

Arrivato prima del previsto (e sarebbe arrivato ancora prima se non fosse stato per un problema del corriere). Orologio perfetto e proprio come lo volevo: uno smartwatch sportivo che non rinuncia ad uno stile classico e comunque elegante. Molto minimal nel design ma altamente funzionale nelle prestazioni tecnologiche. Certo a bordo orologio non si può fare tutto quel che si fa in un garmin NON ibrido, ma dall'app ovviamente si e per me è più che sufficiente. Io non sopporto molto il cinturino in gomma ma è un mio limite (a prescindere dalla marca di orologio) che risolverò acquistando un cinturino in acciaio e che sostituirò molto facilmente

Muy buen reloj

Good watch for a very cheap price if you compare with others. The screen could be a bit bigger

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I find it tracks all the health and fitness stats I could want. Tho I find MoveIQ to be..... Well I turned it off... The manually activated tracking, with phone GPS support, is flawless. Other than MoveIQ, I'm pretty sure I'm running the watch on the heavier side of battery load, and I get about 5 days (that's giving it a 15 min boost, on a slow brick, when I'm in the shower as well, since there is no point wearing it there anyway). Sleep tracking seems to be quite accurate, as I tend to be able to predict what it'll say, based on how I wake up. Similarly I find the Body Battery metric to, also, be quite close to, if not, on point. Styling is very nice, tho the strap itself feels a bit cheap. The hybrid design lends to a nice traditional watch, whole having just a little information available. Given the small screen, it's no shock that I haven't really used the notifications in depth. It's good for quick messages and short replies, but, being fair a hybrid really isn't meant for much more than telling you "Hey, you got a thing", and, if screen present in any fashion, maybe a "It's Facebook from this person". So for it's design, again, flawless. More of the watches main settings should be in the Connect app, and synced in. The small screen doesn't lend to a long menu, alert strength, and other fixed settings, should all be set in Connect, and synced over. The menu should be all On Demand functions, like the activity menu. Icons only takes a learning curve, but it does reduce SOME of the clutter feeling. Overall, if you want a stylish Hybrid, with a full array of health tracking features, with moderate sports tracking, at a budget friendly price. This is a SOLID device.