Garmin Vívosmart Hr+ Regular Fit GPS Activity Tracker - Imperial Purple/Kona Purple (010-01955-37)

Since almost everyone who reads this may be considering this over the Charge 2, I'll give you a good summary.Pro's:1. Waterproof up to 50 meters so you an wear in the shower, pool and beach. Charge 2 cannot, so yes if you are comfortable taking it off every day or multiple times, as well as, unconcerned about a spill ruining your watch, the charge 2 is still okay.2. The software is literally just as good as fit bits, my dad has one. Most critics say fit bit software has a slight edge, I don't see where that is exactly.3. Features charge 2 doesn't have: music control, weather, notifications (custom), which I thought could be a con, but you can actually customize what you see on the UI in the app.This way you can pick and choose which features are right for you. I was concerned about notifications, but you can actually edit what those are as well.4. Find your phone is actually very useful and has come in handy, You have to be in bluetooth range for it to work. If you try it out of range and are looking, it will connect when you do come in range, and notify you. So, just find it again and it will work. I was 20-30 feet without a wall and it worked, which is best bt range I have ever seen.Cons:1. The screen, I hear, is fragile and scratches. I didn't bother taking the risk and get a screen protector. I got a screen protector with the device, IQ shield, and it works great.2. The brightness and contrast is nowhere near that of the Charge 2 quality. So if you have significant trouble reading without classes, this may not be for you.3. Bands are not changeable, unlike the charge 2.

I bought this in June 2016 and I still love it. Yes, there are some flaws but looking at the other GPS fitness watches that my friends have this one is definitely one of the smallest and most functional for me. I wanted a fitness watch that was 50/50 fitness tracker and smart watch that was also affordable. I wear gloves at work all day and being able to glance at my watch to see who's calling/texting/emailing me instead of having to take my gloves off every time my phone buzzes in my pocket is the number one reason I bought this fitness smartwatch. If you're a hardcore fitness junkie you'll want to look elsewhere for something with a more detailed breakdown of your workouts, and if you're only looking for a smartwatch with some minimal fitness tracking abilities you'll also want to look elsewhere. The screen is pretty small so reading long emails or texts is sometimes frustrating. You can't interact with your messages or emails other than reading or clearing them from the screen. The great thing about the Vivosmart is you can get notifications for anything you get notifications for on your iPhone (calendar, reminders, alarms, LINE, Whatsapp, Google map directions, etc) while some smartwatches only allow email, texts and calls. Note that if you buy the Vivosmart in the US it will only display Latin characters. When I get Japanese or Chinese notifications it displays triangles or blanks (Garmin customer service said if I buy the vivosmart in an Asian country it will display Asian characters and Latin characters, but software updates may get screwed up if you bring it back to the US).I've been using the GPS function daily for at least 30 minutes (~4 hours a week, walks, runs, bike rides) and the battery lasts about 4 days before I get the low battery symbol. GPS can take a while for it to connect (a few seconds to 10 minutes) and I've noticed lately that it's taking longer to connect and I don't know if it's because the device itself is getting older or because the weather isn't the most ideal and I'm wearing multiple layers over it. GPS is always within 0.2 miles of Runkeeper, MapMyRun, Strava or Google Maps.I've had the 24hr HR function on since the day I bought it. The HR isn't super accurate but it's in the ballpark most of the time. Look, it's a wrist HR monitor which isn't going to be as accurate as an oximeter or a chest strap. But I've used both in the past and hated it (especially since it took 6 months for the chest strap scar to go away after I stopped using it). Do you really want to run/bike with a chest strap or worse, an oximeter on your finger?! I personally don't need the HR to be within 1bpm of my real HR (+/- 10bpms is sufficient for me). Sleep tracking isn't that accurate or informational on a day-to-day basis, but after 6 months of tracking sleep every day you can tell which nights were abnormal. I love that I don't ever have to take it off. I've showered with it every day with no problems (I've never swam with it). The Vivosmart is easily fooled into thinking you've accomplished your step or stair goals for the day, but I'm not too picky about that. As long as I exceed the "goal" by 500-1,000 steps I think I'm still meeting my actual goal.Specific issues other reviews mentioned:- People have complained about scratches on the screen. I don't have a screen protector and other than a little nick on the wristband at the top right corner above my screen, it's free of damage. I'm not particularly careful with it either (I have a dog, cats, and work with caustic materials - hence the gloves).- Be careful of the charging ports getting rusty. The manual states this can cause damage to the battery and cause it to malfunction (not hold a charge, not charge at all). Since I shower with it every day I wash the band with soap pretty well and try to clean the rust off a bit before I charge.- The Move bar doesn't reset unless you are constantly moving for a total of 2 minutes. If you walk for a minute, stop for a minute and then walk for another minute it will not reset the Move bar. So yes, you may have been moving around in the last hour but not long enough to reset the bar.- If it thinks you sitting on the couch for 2 hours in the evening was the start of your sleep cycle, you can manually enter when you actually went to bed in the app. It will display the correct time you went to bed and show your movements.- I've had this 6 months and I haven't had any problems with my band yet. Knock on wood.All in all I really love the Vivosmart HR+. I really miss it during the couple of hours I have to charge it every week.

I wanted to love this, but returned due to inaccuracy. Perhaps mine is just defective, but here’s the low down of my experience with this tracker:Pros:Water resistant! Can wear swimming and in shower.- love the garmin connect app and its ability to sync with MyFitnessPal- great battery life of 7 days- smallish in size and relatively comfortable, except when sleeping at times since I rest my arm under my head but not a big deal.- move notifications feature greatCons: floors climbed feature highly inaccurate. Consistently misses 8 out of 10 times. Seems to be a known problem with no fix after I researched online. Because of this, the accuracy of other functions that I can’t measure is questionable. Thinking perhaps I got a dud, so this may not be your experience. Overall a nice little band for casual tracking, but not accurate enough for me.

I've had this less than 3 months and it's already started malfunctioning...of course it worked for the first 30 days so now I can't send it back. When I drive it adds steps, but it doesn't add steps when I use the elliptical at the gym. More recently, it started needing to be powered off then back on in order to connect to my phone and upload data. It thinks I'm asleep when I'm not too. This isn't the first time I've tried a Garmin activity tracker and I had the same issues with the first one I tried but figured that maybe I just got a glitchy one the first time. It doesn't look like that is the case. I'm extremely disappointed.

Leí bastante acerca de los diferentes productos similares que se distinguen actualmente en el mercado de pulseras de monitoreo de actividad. Finalmente, y tomado muchas cosas en cuenta (precio, tamaño, características), reduje mis opciones a la Garmin Vivosmart HR+, y a la Fitbit Charge 2. Quería algo que no fuera demasiado grande, y que a la vez dispusiera de amplias opciones de medición. Casi en todos los sentidos, la Garmin Vivosmart Hr+, me pareció ofrecer la máxima gama de herramientas de monitoreo. Al final, mi última barrera, fue que la FITBIT tenía bastante mejor vista, mientras que la GARMIN, me parecía un tanto abultada y poco atractiva.. o al menos la menos atractiva de las dos. Obviamente, el hecho de que la Gamlin sea impermeable y tenga GPS, la pone bastante por encima de la Fitbit, y fue lo que al final me decidió por ella, a pesar de ser la más feíta.Viéndola ahora en mi pulsera, y habiéndola puesto minimamente a prueba.. (conectando el Bluetooth, el GPS, dando los primeros pasos, hecha la primer consulta con la almohada, el primer vistazo al software, etc), me alegro mucho de haberla escogido. Ya puesta, no aparece para nada tan abultada y voluminosa como había temido.. (más bien se la ve aptamente musculosa :-)). La conexión a GPS que en muchos comentarios y reseñas, recibe bastantes quejas debido a la tardanza de la conexión, tampoco resultó ser mayor problema: la primera vez, definitivamente tardó demasiado en conectarse, pero en adelante, la conexión se efectuó en cuestión de segundos, y el resultado de visualizar la trayectoria, y la mayor exactitud en la medición de distancias, realmente destaca a esta pulsera, y la pone en primer plano.. asimismo la impermeabilidad. Cabe mencionar también que el hule de la correa es suave, ligeramente elástico y la verdad muy cómodo.La pantalla a la luz del día es brillante y se presenta a la vista sumamente visible y clara. En su primer día se le ve resplandeciente y sin marca alguna, pero es obvio que el tipo de material no tardará en empezar a recoger marcas y rayones, aún cuidándola bien. En interiores, la pantalla es más opaca, pero se lee cómodamente y sin mayor problema. Otro elemento que distingue a la Garmin sobre la Fitbit, es poder recibir todo tipo de notificaciones al acoplarla con el celular, y también poder controlar el sistema de música desde la pulsera.. factor que jugó un papel decisivo en escoger esta pulsera sobre la otra.Más adelante, tras haberme familiarizado con el equipo a largo plazo, agregaré algún comentario más, y alguna otra impresión sobre su uso. Algo que vale la pena comentar es que este tipo de instrumentos, realmente fomentan y tienen la capacidad de provocar un mayor interés en el ejercicio.. cosa que en muchas ocasiones, tendemos a relegar a segundo plano, y que luego viene a pasarnos la cuenta. Poder VER el resultado de nuestra actividad en forma gráfica, y poder observar y medir nuestros avances diariamente y a largo plazo, conduce a múltiples beneficios.SEGUIMIENTO - 30/12/2017Originalmente, basado en primerísimas impresiones, le di 5 estrellas a este producto, que sigue siendo mi predilecto entre los varios similares que se encuentran actualmente disponibles en el mercado, (tomando en cuenta mis preferencias de tamaño, y las opciones que ofrece, sobre todo GPS, impermeabilidad al agua, y la capacidad de controlar la música y leer mensajes desde la pulsera). Le he quitado una estrella porque tenía mayores esperanzas respecto a la medición de los ciclos del sueño.. no quedo del todo satisfecho con la medición bastante superficial de los ciclos de sueño. Aunque el equipo si provee una lectura relativamente congruente de los estados de sueño ligero y profundo durante la noche, cae en duda su eficiencia puesto que jamás distingue cuando despierto brevemente durante la noche para ir al baño, etc. Tampoco me muestra despierto por las mañanas al despertar cuando empiezo ya a ponerme en movimiento.. el equipo generalmente me muestra en un estado de sueño ligero, hasta que verdaderamente empiezo a pedalear en serio.Desconozco realmente la capacidad que tenga una medidor de pulsera para valorar los ciclos de sueño con precisión. Me imagino que es algo limitada, aún en el mejor de los casos. Dudo que este sea el mejor entre los equipo que existen hoy día en el mercado, pero tomando todo en cuenta, únicamente le quito UNA estrella.. y a decir verdad, lo volvería a comprar.SEGUIMIENTO - 01/08/2018Después de unos días más de uso.. reitero mis buenas impresiones sobre esta pulsera que me parece excelente y que ha propiciado en mi un mayor interés y una mayor participación en todo tipo de actividad física. Me felicito por haber tomado la decisión de hacer esta compra, y de la buena calidad y utilidad del producto. Con el tiempo la medición de los ciclos del sueño, aunque con algunos detalles, me parece también bastante adecuada y mejor de lo que al principio me pareció. Ya viendo los resultados a largo plazo, y con la opción de poder editar y hacer ajustes manualmente, resulta muy útil e interesante disponer de esos datos y de hacer comparaciones. Por lo mismo, le devuelvo esa quinta estrella a mi evaluación.Espero estos comentarios le puedan ser útiles a alguien.SEGUIMIENTO 07/12/19.Sin quitarle nada al Garmin.. después de bastantes meses y con el avance de la tecnología y nuevos modelos en el mercado, hoy día llevo en la pulsera, y con mucho agrado un FITBIT CHARGE 3. Es de muy buena vista y a la vez nada aparatoso. No tiene GPS, salvo a través de la conexión con el celular, pero viene a ser algo que personalmente casi no uso. Lo que sí sobresale, y fue la razón principal del cambio, es lo bien que marca las fases del sueño.. mucho mejor que Garmin.

This product is not worth the money. Sleep tracker stopped functioning after 1 week of use. When contacted Garmin India support, they refused to service it since it's warranty doesn't come under Garmin India support and they sent me a quotation of around 7k-8k for servicing. Better avoid this Global store products which doesn't come with Garmin India support.

Aunque la batería dura alrededor de 2 días completos y es un poco complicado colocar el cargador, este pequeño garmin mide todo, ¡TODO! Sales a correr y te proporciona metricas como velocidad, distancia (con gps te muestra el camino recorrido) tamaño de zancada, ppm y ritmo cardiaco, además de horas de sueño así como alertas vibratorias (en IOS) de notificaciones de whatsapp, correos, ig, facebook, twitter. Excelente producto!

Excellent product. If it has to be GPS aided it has to be Garmin. Excellent accuracy. After initial few runs with GPS , the watch automatically syncs to your steps , heartbeat, and cadence and accurately gives readings when GPS not SW on. Remember the route has to be same , and frequency has to be same. Does have problem of flimsy strap and loop. Ensure you put scratch guard on it before use otherwise it takes on too many scratches.

Handy little fitness watch with all the features I need. I had issues with early failure on 2 FitBit HR models (6-8 months each) and a Gear Fit Pro Two (2 years) It's smaller and not as bright as the GearFit Pro 2, but I love the sleek design and the purple accent colour. It was much more affordable, and so far I'm pleased with it after using it all summer. I've chosen to not swim with it as I believe that contributed to the failure in my last Samsung watch, even though it was rated for swimming. The notifications are handy as I don't like to pull out my phone while working at the hospital, but I can see messages on my watch.