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Do more than tell time with this Garmin Vivoactive 3 smart watch. This high-tech timepiece has more than 15 built-in sports apps and provides fitness monitoring, stress tracking, GPS and mobile payment capabilities in a sporty design. Download unique watch faces and widgets to personalize this Garmin Vivoactive 3 smart watch to suit your style.
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from NE
I have been wearing this watch for about a week now, and I use it to measure 6 to 7 miles runs.
I also wear it to track my sleep, and in my point of view, it does it very well since the supposedly times I sleep seem accurate to my calculations.
The GPS does drain the battery faster, however I think you should be able to make two days of two hour runs with this watch without having it to charge. Anything longer than that, might be a stretch. (With the HR on all the time, and without the screen backlight). But like I said this is my first week, I need to do more testing and push it to the limits and see exactly how far can it go. The battery charges too fast by the way.
The metrics compared to my iPhone are far more detailed but I need to do more testing and compare it to other watches or activity trackers, but it is a Garmin, it should not be that far off from the best products out there.
The next feature I would like to try out is the swimming tracking, but that would be in the next couple of weeks.
Overall I am very satisfied and I would recommend it to anybody physical active and that is interested on an Apple Watch or activity tracker. This is a good product that is in between an Apple Watch and a Fenix 5, and in some ways better, for the size, battery life, metrics, and price.
The only negative would be with the Garmin App on iOS, it kind of lags, and sometimes doesn't sync immediately the data, however, it does sync eventually after 30 seconds of touching the sync option in the iOS app.
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Do more than tell time with this Garmin Vivoactive 3 smart watch. This high-tech timepiece has more than 15 built-in sports apps and provides fitness monitoring, stress tracking, GPS and mobile payment capabilities in a sporty design. Download unique watch faces and widgets to personalize this Garmin Vivoactive 3 smart watch to suit your style.
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5 out of 5Great size and sports based watch
By Jose
from NE
I have been wearing this watch for about a week now, and I use it to measure 6 to 7 miles runs.
I also wear it to track my sleep, and in my point of view, it does it very well since the supposedly times I sleep seem accurate to my calculations.
The GPS does drain the battery faster, however I think you should be able to make two days of two hour runs with this watch without having it to charge. Anything longer than that, might be a stretch. (With the HR on all the time, and without the screen backlight). But like I said this is my first week, I need to do more testing and push it to the limits and see exactly how far can it go. The battery charges too fast by the way.
The metrics compared to my iPhone are far more detailed but I need to do more testing and compare it to other watches or activity trackers, but it is a Garmin, it should not be that far off from the best products out there.
The next feature I would like to try out is the swimming tracking, but that would be in the next couple of weeks.
Overall I am very satisfied and I would recommend it to anybody physical active and that is interested on an Apple Watch or activity tracker. This is a good product that is in between an Apple Watch and a Fenix 5, and in some ways better, for the size, battery life, metrics, and price.
The only negative would be with the Garmin App on iOS, it kind of lags, and sometimes doesn't sync immediately the data, however, it does sync eventually after 30 seconds of touching the sync option in the iOS app.
Jose
NE
October 27, 2017
To the comment I got, I want to tell you that I tested my device for more runs and I constantly got the same results, after an hour and 40 minute run, I always had 48% to 50% battery life left on this Vivoactive 3 (HR always on, with GPS). I purchased an Apple Watch 3 just WiFi and did the same test, that one had 80% to 83% of battery left for the same runs (GPS on -without iPhone- and I suppose HR). I always charged them 100% before running. So I decided to just keep the Apple Watch. I still feel I like the Vivoactive tracking features more, however I usually mostly run and then do other things, and I would not be able to run again for a second day in case I can't charge the vivo.
What impressed me about the vivoactive is that one night I went for a walk without setting it up to track such walk (I think the vivo has a function you set up called smart tracking). The next day I saw the statistics and matched my walk time and some stats pretty accurate. The Apple Watch does not do that. I also like it tracks your sleep. But battery is a concern if you don't want to charge your device after every run to ensure a second day.
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