Review: Garmin vívofit - bracelet pedometer working year without recharging

Too lazy to read the entire review, I suggest spoiler. Garmin vívofit - the best and most thoughtful bracelet to keep track of daily activities and sports from those that came across to me. He is not without flaws, but it is the best that is available today. This will be the story below.

General information about vívofit

I chose a bracelet aqua because I have such color fringing on the bag. And I did not want to drive you into depression in black, red and so annoying. D.

This color seemed to me the most fashionable, and I took it.

It should say that this was my first and last mistake. Rubber band that color collects dirt from tables, notebooks and all, on what are your hands. Color Mark, and they will be forced to wipe chistyuli bracelet every day. The benefit of doing this is simple: wash your hands and wash them with a bracelet, as if he were a part of your body. By the way, vívofit c comes two bracelets: larger and smaller. On my wrist is not very thick, suitable for two. One - back to back, the second - overlap. It is said that this piece lacks major drawback

Jawbone UP24That could be blown away by the friction with the sleeve when changing and interfered with work on a computer with an iron gag. Garmin vívofit sits on the hand like a glove: hand in his sleeve, his hand on a computer, hand under the pillow - you just forget about it. I think he will be a little strain in the heat, if you sweat heavily. But now everything is just fine.

What makes vívofit?

This bracelet - classic Pedometer. Rubber straps are removable, and in the core is very strong plastic sealed sensor.

He is waterproof so that Garmin guarantees its unsinkable at a depth of 50 meters. Yes, you heard right, it is waterproof. Take him a bath, swim in the pool, jump from the tower, dive fridayvom at the primary level. He may be with you.

Equally striking water resistance is provided by the fact that there is no sensor connectors. Absolutely. To recharge it, you need to change the batteries. And before that, it is necessary to remove the four bolt. Strained? No, because the bracelet holds a charge year. You simply do not need to be charged, the other bracelets. Year of operating with two batteries, which are sold in any time stall.

It is particularly interesting that the bracelet has a Bluetooth connection interfaces (BTLE) and ANT +!

According BTLE Bracelet:

• connected to a compatible iOS- or Android-powered device with an installed Garmin Connect program and takes off the collected data (in the bracelet, they can be stored for up to 10 days!).

According to ANT + bracelet:

• connects with complete Cardiosensor (about him below) and takes your heart rate figures;
• It is connected to the PC with the installed program Garmin Express (to be inserted in the USB-port adapter ANT +, which is included) and also throws off the data on the steps and other activity.

Cardiosensor

Complete Cardiosensor struck me as odd.

I have seen a very massive sensors Polar, small and neat Suunto, average TIMEX and Wahoo. This is not just big, there is also a lot of plastic in the thoracic region. This no one else... For all its massiveness it is well worn at practices, sit tight and never rubs. He is a strange, but good. If you are not going to run it IRONMAN or "Ultra", then you do not need another.

Having in hand the bracelet and heart monitor, it is important to understand that it is not necessary to constantly wear. This is a mockery of themselves. As soon as you go to the gym or cardio ready to go out for a jog, to put on it and be engaged. At the exit you get to Garmin Connect Web-based system running or cardio recorded with the correct calculation of the energy consumption! Moreover, the bracelet more or less accurately (± 10%) defines the distance run. If you are not a data freak, you just live, run, work out in the hall, and all will be very considered. The pool Cardiosensor not work.

device interface

Vívofit has an LCD screen with no backlight. That is, in the dark, it must be something to shine. On it there is a digital unit + strip your immobility status. On the screen you can see:

• the current time;
• the current date;
• Heart rate, if you heart monitor;
• steps passed today;
• the remaining steps of the plan, which is dynamically for your Garmin or you yourself asked to Connect;
• the approximate number of kilometers traveled;
• burnt calories (passive + active).

Switching between screens is done by only one hardware button on the bracelet a stacked manner. More on the screen you will see a red bar. It increases from the fact that you are stuck on the couch or at the computer. When it becomes completely red, you need to be like to stretch their legs. Vibration in the bracelet is not, but because you just will not notice these moments. It's true. UP24 is buzzing, and you notice here - no.

If a hardware button to hold the second, the bracelet goes into synchronization. Priority interface it considers ANT +, and then BTLE. This means that if you open Garmin Connect app on your smartphone and Garmin Express program on a computer with an adapter stuck ANT +, the synchronization will be with a computer. Savings - our all here.

If you hold the button for 2 seconds, then the band will enter the Sleep Mode tracking. Deep, shallow and so on. Nothing special. I stopped watching a dream a few days later - just remember to include this option before going to bed. Frankly, this feature - a tribute to fashion. You either slept or not, and no better than this bracelet will not tell you.

in total

This bracelet is the best. But only for those who are not annoying geek designs with an old-style fiction, and the absence of vibration. Also, I would recommend it to those who run the clock from Garmin Connect and uses their system. If you run out of hours to build a GPS-track and coaching and bracelet at a time, within the intelligent clouds understand all the gadgets, whose work is more important, and there is no double counting activity.

Add to this a striking lack of autonomy and the need for one more charge / busy USB-port, full water resistance to your dive boundaries, stealth wear, and you get an almost perfect fitness gadget. The question then remains only one: the work of fitness bracelets today more and make better smartphones. But this does not negate the coolness Garmin vívofit, which becomes part of you.

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