Garmin Vivosmart HR Activity Tracker: Measure your daily activity with this device that helps you to set and maintain aerobic fitness goals. Vibration alerts let you receive call, text and e-mail notifications from your phone.

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4

Great hardware - needs software work

on November 9, 2015

Posted by: Riley1992

Returned a Fitbit charge hr for this and I'm enjoying it so far (I've had it for about 5 days). The hardware itself is fantastic, doing much more than the Fitbit like all phone notifications, weather updates, music control (turned it off), move reminders, and waterproofing for the same price. Though subjective, I find it much more comfortable on my wrist. I do miss the Fitbit software platform as I had 25+ friends constantly using it and competing with them. So far social features are nil for me on the Garmin which is a bummer. The app definitely has some issues but it's worked great the last two days for me. They did just overhaul the entire UI so hopefully they will fix any bugs as time moves on. Overall, I'd recommend it if you're not heavily invested in Fitbits social platform.

P.S. I was reading a review down below about screen orientation being a pain in horizontal. I posted a pic to show that you can change the settings in the app so the screen is oriented in the vertical plane for easier viewing on your wrist (works perfect - except smartphone notification screen is still stuck on horizontal, hopefully changed in future updates)

I would recommend this to a friend!

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Garmin - Vivosmart HR Activity Tracker + Heart Rate - Black

Garmin Vivosmart HR Activity Tracker: Measure your daily activity with this device that helps you to set and maintain aerobic fitness goals. Vibration alerts let you receive call, text and e-mail notifications from your phone.

How do you turn the sleep mode on?

I can only figure out how to put "do not disturb" mode on, and track my sleep manually.

It automatically tracks your sleep. Once you enter your designated usual sleep times in the app and it syncs, the tracker should use that info along with your movement/heart rate to realize you're now asleep and begin tracking.

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