Ratings & Reviews for Garmin Smart Watch with Step Counter, Heart Rate Monitor and GPS Enabled
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What Customers Are Saying
The fitness smartwatch offers long battery life, a bright display, and comprehensive health and activity tracking capabilities. Users praise the accuracy of the watch in recording various exercises and the availability of Garmin Coach training programs. While some find the initial setup and navigation complex, the watch is generally considered easy to use once accustomed to it. The device provides a wealth of useful features in a sleek and comfortable design.
Customer review summary generated by AI, including incentivized reviews.great watch/ tracker
I really like it. I’m a longtime customer Garmin and I just upgraded from a vevo active three to the vivoactive 5. Garmin is great.
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Very happy with the Vivoactive 5. Had a Venu Sq prior so everything connected quickly. The sq watch face seemed to fit my wrist a little better. Thanks for continuing to make an affordable quality product.
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works in pool
It is easy to use but does need to be charged daily. Also would be nice if the time was listed in hours and minutes not by just hands. Does work in the pool while a teach a water fitness class.
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Needs improvement
Dont know why phone is connected and disconnected 3 inches from phone multiple times during. An hour. Can reply to things after phone sends it. Why can't i message someone from watch all the time? No audio, just buzz.
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Terrible SW update experiences
Love my watch when it works. However, EVERY time there is a software update then the battery life goes from 9 days to less than a day. The only way I've been able to figure out how to fix it is to factory reset the watch, uninstall the app from my phone and then set everything up over again. Then it works fine until the next SW update. They also don't allow users to disable updates.
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Not bad
Not as user friendly as other devices I've owned. I had to set the time for sleep; if I go to bed earlier or later, it doesn't seem to detect that. Has a lot of features but can't seem to sync usage. Admittedly some of this may be user error.
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Best decision I’ve made leaving Apple
So happy that I decided to buy this watch. It does everything I hoped it would and then some. The Fitness tracking, Golf, sleep and the battery life is phenomenal. Highly recommend.
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Great Bargain. Move Fast
I've had a Vivoactive 3 for years and loved its size and features, but it's resolution wasn't too great and it's color rendition and clarity were limited by today's standards, so I just upgraded to Vivoactive 5 at a bargain price, below the current Vivoactive 6, while supplies last. Wow!!! What a difference. Lighter, slightly smaller, the colors and resolution pop, more features, better glass, and more memory. I love it. I took off one star simply because they took away the barometric press...
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Terrible
Terrible watch. Does not keep a charge really want my money back. Apps are not correct. Does not catch a true depiction of my sleep or body. False advertising/ cheaply made and extremely disappointed
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Love this device. In the best shape of my life thanks to this . So much better than any smart watch
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Versatile Tracker
This is a nice watch for a wide variety of people. I'm not into sports but it works just fine for my focus on health tracking. It gives me enough depth for sleep and daily stats to be very useful. I think it would be useful for people into sports too.
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So helpful!!
I love the “new to me” features with this watch. Compass, hints, morning reflection, and encouragements throughout the day. More features than I expected with this upgrade.
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Great fitness watch!
I bought this looking for a great fitness tracker for overall workouts and runs with all of the tracking. I’ve had the watch for 2 weeks now and I really love the sleep tracker and the programmable workouts so I don’t need to keep checking my phone. I also horseback ride and while I do hope that in the future, that feature will be available on this watch, the cycle feature does work just as well. Overall I’d definitely recommend!
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Horrible battery life
If the battery life lasted more than a day, Id really like this watch. The first week it worked fine with minimal features. Then it did a software update. Now it won't last more than 24 hours with a full charge on the battery saver setting.
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Garmin over Apple any day
I’ve had this watch for over two weeks now and it easily out does my Apple Watch hands over fist. Yes it doesn’t have all of the fitness activities the Apple Watch has, but it by far more accurate and more reliable. I’m glad I bought this watch and slowly getting away from the Apple eco system.
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New Tricks for an old dog.
2 weeks in and very happy, still learning the ropes. The battery lasts 5 to 7 days so far.
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Great Smart Watch!
I love my garmin Vivoactive 5! It is awesome! And looking great! I enjoy to wear it everyday! Thank you!
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Great Features
I bought this a month ago and I love it! It tracks everything even your sleep and it recommends how many hours of sleep you should get every night and I need to get my sleep on course! I also like how it gives you medals for activities that you do
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Replacement for Garmin Tracker
I've used Garmin trackers for years. My last one finally bit the dust and I bought a Vivoactive 5. Very happy with it. The battery is fantastic. I charge it once a week and it usually has 35% or more left.
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Great!
Still hate the charging cable but glad I came back from Apple Watch.
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