Garminvívoactive 5 GPS Smartwatch, AMOLED Touchscreen

Bought as a gift for my husband so will provide as much information as I can.He has had a Samsung gear watch from about 7 years ago which still worked fine but he was due an upgrade. He was definitely well used to the Samsung watch and how to work it.The watch was easy to set up and paired fine with his Samsung Galaxy phone.Price point for this watch was reasonable, not as expensive as the Samsung watch but he wanted something that had the features of a smart watch but was more accurate for fitness too.The battery life on this watch is amazing, it's usually lasting over a week, sometimes a bit less depending on how much he uses it for working out etc, and that's with all the notifications coming through (social media, news, emails etc).The watch itself seems to be very sturdy and of good quality, so it should withstand a few knocks and hopefully it won't cause any issues.The watch face is a nice size, a bit smaller than the previous Samsung but still plenty big on a man's wrist. I also tried it on myself and it didn't feel too big as some fitness trackers/smartwatches can.It seems to be very accurate for steps compared to the previous watch, and you can see steps increase as you are walking. It doesn't appear to be overly sensitive to movement so it doesn't track steps when you scratch your head which some other watches do!There are a lot of features still being discovered and it will take time to get through them all, but so far it looks great.

Review after <1 week of use. For background, my fitness routine is currently weights training around 1 hour 2 times per week and occasionally a 1-2 hour casual walk at the weekend. I wanted a smart watch that could track my overall health, fitness and my workouts, but not something with crazy accurate GPS and gate analysis etc for runners.For my use, it’s perfect so far.Mostly easy to setup using the Garmin Connect app, and found a good watch face that matched the info I wanted displayed using the Garmin Connect IQ app which is a separate app that you can use to customise the watch and the data it displays. Slightly annoying there’s a second app for this but not the end of the world for something that once you set up you may not change for a while.One barrier to updating the watch face is that the watch needed a firmware update as most tech does, but to do this update I had to connect to my laptop and download the Garmin Express software, there were a few updates to run but all was easy.The charging cable is USB C, so consider if you need an adaptor. The end that attaches to the watch is secure. Extremely secure. It fit so well that when I unplug it I’m worried that I’m going to cause damage because of how hard I have to pull it. I guess I’d rather it was tight than loose and didn’t charge well.I’ve turned off the always on display and turned off gestures so that the watch doesnt light up when I turn my wrist in order to preserve battery longer. I just have to tap the screen or press a button the activate the screen.On full charge it said on screen the battery would last 12d, that seems to be tracking accurately 4 days later.One small annoyance I have is the “play” in the side buttons. You can press them in but not enough to actually activate the click which is frustrating. I’m used to it now and just have to be more firm, but it would be nice to have more responsive buttons.The watch tracks your calories burned during the day and during activity, this needs to be calibrated by tracking a 10-15 minute walk or run which is easy to do. The Garmin Connect app can link to apps like MyFitnessPal so when I’ve done activity it’ll update my calories in MyFitnessPal so I can see my deficit easily.The watch sleep tracking I’m not convinced on accuracy yet, last night for instance it thought I fell asleep an hour after I actually did.Overall great watch I’d highly recommend, it has many inbuilt workout routines & sports tracking I’ll never use but it doesn’t feel I’m missing out of functionality. It does exactly what I’m asking of it brilliantly

I bought this after giving birth to motivate me to move more. The watch is comfy, I love the personalised faces and my baby loves to play with it on my wrist too! It's my first garmin and is excellent for GPS and I like a lot of the features and tracking on the app. However, I have found its definitely missed naps and got my sleep quite wrong (something I'm painfully aware of with a baby) so it seems less accurate than my previous fitbit for sleep. Steps seem pretty accurate although it's a challenge pushing a pram as I can easily lose 1-3 thousand steps compared to my partner because I'm pushing the pram but I know this would be hard for any tracker to adjust for! I really like it overall though and will probably stick with garmin going forward.

I bought a Lige smart watch last year and although initial usage was great and WiFi 4G connection was good it started disconnecting while on my walks so my wife urged me to get a “Garmin” so got this Vivoactive 5 after reading up on it, I do a lot of walking but not sports activities anymore and like to record my steps and mileage, this watch has many functions and battery life is amazing if your not wanting to connect to GPS all the time, at present I’m only charging my watch up once a week where as before I was 2-3 times with the Lige smart watch.I’ve only had this for a few short weeks but delighted with the functionality of it.