I had long wanted exactly something. The Apple Watch has unfortunately not addressed at me. The high price would still have somewhere in order but no GPS? NO WAY! I wanted a SmartWatch which focuses mainly on the health factor and just SmartWatch is. Exactly Garmin has managed and I believe that you have thrown the vívoactive a real hammer on the fitness market.
Pro:
- The clock is outside super read
- The design is creeping
- The VivoActive is damn easy
- Tapes are no problem replaceable
- GPS is very accurate - compared with iPhone 6
- Handling very intuitive
- Integration with Apple Health is given
- Harmonizes super with Withings and MyFitnessPal
- Garmin Connect Web portal (chic design and a lot of information)
- Challenges and Achievements
- Chest strap works 1A
- The SmartWatch is fully sufficient (all push messages, calls, calendar, weather)
- Customizable display (. Various dials, Apps and Others)
Negatives:
- The Garmin Connect app has unfortunately their weaknesses
- Apple Health Integration could better harmonize (sleep data, for example, are not yet synchronized, some items twice)
The battery life is I think quite succeeded. After 3 days - 4,5 hours sport with GPS and relatively many messages I had to push it with remaining 10% then load times. So my iPhone could not have done. ;)
Conclusion:
All in one I find the VivoActive absolutely succeeded. Since I currently have this just for 80-day trial, I'm going to buy this then definitely yourself. I find justified the price. Since 5 days it is my absolute favorite companion in everyday life. Rausholt the phone alone can not in any notification, I find absolutely brilliant. Even driving a car you immediately see why the phone has just vibrates.
5-6x a week I do sports, I had also been looking for a matching clock. But this is more than perfect!
Get them the best bundled with the HRM and you have a sport Multifuktions computer!
Sports & Smart! Genial! Great product!
[Update 1 - 09.04.2015:]
Currently there is a battery drainer in the system. Say some bug (error), which ensures the battery much is consumed.
I am still erötern what function this is exactly. On the web you read that it would be the sleep function. But seems to occur only sporadically.
If Garmin has now fixed by a firmware update, there are again 5 star, so my rating goes down to 4 stars.
So I'm happy just with a battery life of Apple Watch and that does not make me!
[Update 2 - 05.05.2015:]
Sorry for the late feedback on Amazon. On my blog I had already reported it.
Just one week after I had contacted Garmin about the problem, there was a firmware update to 2.7.
This update fixes the problem with the sleep mode and thus incurred Battery drain.
Thus again the 5th star.