But it is also the other way around: If the processing quality is right time, then you have just significantly sloppy on software side. And that we have here at the Vivo Smart.
In order not to skip ahead to the Motzerei, I count at this point the first place, to what I liked and what has, after all, led to two stars:
- The processing of the band goes high totally fine; as the specified battery life of about 7 days.
- The display of messages on your smartphone is really a funny thing and fun. Just a pity that read messages are not marked as read, and thus always "new" stay until they have been read on your smartphone (in this case: iPhone)
- To control the music player on the phone is a very good idea and work. Unfortunately, it is limited to the iPhone: So you can only control the Apple's own player, so no third-party software such as Spotify. Also, no volume control is possible in contrast to Android, but only play / pause and next / previous. Both restrictions would probably not be, because my Plantronics Bluetooth headset can, after all, everything the iPhone!
So, even if it is far reads still reasonably positive, one must nevertheless be said that it is nice additional features, the tape will be but a fitness gadget in the first place. And this is where you have to put into consideration the way, quite hefty price to what is offered in the evaluation. And then remains of the great impression mE unfortunately left not much.
The pedometer:
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It starts with the original function of the band: the pedometer. And here it must be noted at the outset fair to say that you have to tackle the issue of "accuracy" rather generous. It's just not a GPS tracker. Nevertheless, the Vivo Smart, as well as most other tracker, a useful precision to what concerns distances.
But what is almost more important, is the algorithm to prevent misinterpretation, so that no arm movements are counted as steps that had none. And at this point this is by far the worst tracker I have ever come across. What is counted everything here is completely underground. An example to illustrate: I get a daily goal of 5,000 steps. Now I sit down and play half an hour guitar, then I walk 10 steps to the bathroom, brush my teeth and look 3 Min on the Vivo Smart (!):. 463 steps! Minus the actual 10, I'm really gone, once just 453 steps too much! Since I have still managed before nearly 10% of my daily workload! LOL!
Such deviations I had with other devices simply can not! Be it the low-quality things from Jawbone or FitBit Flex been: I had the same requirement at most times 40 - 50 steps, which are too much been counted!
Sleep Tracker
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"A fitness bracelet must necessarily have a sleep tracker" one might have thought at Garmin. And because this is so, you have just quickly zusammengefrickelt some nonsense in order to print this feature with the package can.
Honestly: If there was a prize giving for the most senseless and dilettantischste reacting a features Garmin hereby would this trophy more than deserved, because this sleep tracker is completely senseless and nutzbefreit!
First of all you have to tell the device during initial setup via the Garmin Connect App namely times, at what times is because so pushes mattresses Horch service usually. After you have filled in these fields, you would do well to scrupulously adhere to these sleep times when you want to see later in the app is a totally meaningless curve, which provides information about at what times you have to move more or less and the the user alone leaves without any further information or explanations with this "impression".
But we get this nonsense to face, of course you have to change in the app and there confirm his sleep times or corrected manually if they differ from the previously registered sleep times after waking up only once. Nix automatically! So it pays to lie at bedtime a piece of paper deal where you then enters his sleeping hours in order nachzutragen later in the app! How very handy!
Do I hear your objection now that you somehow could sleep mode setting at the controller finally? Nope! At the device While we can enable a sleep mode, but it's all quite different meaning from the crafty developers at Garmin! What is meant is namely a "nap" outside the registered sleep time. The values of these naps are incidentally not displayed in the mobile app. You can see them only through the website in the dashboard, when you open the sleep data completely. The boring motion curve described above is not offered for this, but the nap will be added only to the manually entered sleep time. Of course, even if both times overlap. So the default sleep time is, for example, 23-7 clock and you get the sleep mode enabled at the same time for this on tape, so you get 16 hours of sleep ... * facepalm *
Total calories display:
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Even with the display of the total calories consumed on the device you can only say again: Strong performance, guys! Also, this feature is useful not even in the approach. The idea is actually not bad: There is a daily BMR plus then joins nor the movement. Both together then gives the total amount of calories we consume and to know these numbers, can be very helpful.
As long as we just run only through the area, is still all right. But many sports are made up not only go from leisurely stroll. There is equipment training, cycling, etc., etc.. Conveniently, you can also enter such activities on Garmin Connect app and also gets the calories consumed for display. After you have synchronized with the tape, the data you provide when viewing "calories burned" clear, however, that ... Well? Precisely! Nix has done! The burnt at other sports calories are simply ignored and not displayed. Hence this function is obsolete!
