Garmin vívomove Sport, Hybrid 40mm smartwatch with health & fitness functions, hidden touchscreen display & up to 5 days battery life, Black

Nice sports watch
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.

Screen is pressure sensitive and sleep tracking is very poor
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.

Connectivity with my mobile is great
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

Lots of good stuff, a couple of things to improve.
I had a really good recently bought smart watch before this and it would annoy me when the lift to wake function wouldn’t work. To the extent that it put me off having it. I wanted good activity tracking for my workouts but a normal nice watch face. When I saw this one I sold my LED screen smart watch and bought this.In a lot of areas it is much better, for my previous smart watch I needed (after a 6 month trial) to pay for a monthly subscription to keep having sleep tracking and body battery (or their brand’s equivalent). With this watch all those things come free with the watch.The Garmin connect app is great, has lots of info and I have been happy with it so far. I love the watch, I love the subtlety that comes with having smart watch style activity trackers and yet a nice looking normal front.I have worn it to the gym a few times and generally been happy with the tracking. Even in the swimming pool. Overall I have Been impressed.Yet there have been a couple of things that need improvement. The watch’s connection with the phone is not perfect. It seems bitty at times. When attempting to align the watch hands through the app it always breaks connection before finishing. They need to improve that on a coming firmware update.Also mentioning watch aligning I have noticed I have to align the hands more often than I would have liked. I get it, they are moving up and down a lot for notifications but sometimes they are way off (the wrong side of the clock). I guess it might be an issues with having physical hands on a smart watch but I think they should design it so you don’t have to move the hands at all. Eg make them see-through when over the digital part of the screen or give people in app control of whether or not you can turn off the hands moving for each and every notification etc.This comes to my last gripe. I had a different brand fitness tracker before and they enabled me to go through every app that sends notifications to my watch and select yes or no. That was great. Garmin don’t offer that yet (please offer it soon it’s enough to make me want to get rid!). They do offer the ability to filter smart notifications to calls and texts only (which I have selected!) But I still seem to get every notification under the sun through. I don’t want to know about calendar notifications on my watch or some random third part apps most recent promotion. Please enable me to filter through each app and select yes or no. (Makes me tempted to go back to that recent brand and pay that premium monthly fee, almost, on second thoughts no! But please do something about it Garmin).Other than that Garmin have the ingredients to be onto a winner and overall I definitely prefer it to my previous fitness tracker (even though that used to offer ECG scanning). Because this one looks and feels more like a watch and has good activity tracking to boot!

Muy buen reloj

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.