Garmin Vivoactive Fitness/Cycling/Golf GPS semi-smart watch $199.99 FS @ Golfsmith

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  • 2015-11-16 20:08 EST
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Garmin Vivoactive $200 shipped @ Golfsmith

golfsmith has the Vivoactive do-everything sporty, semi-smart watch on sale for $199.99 and free shipping with code FREESHIP.

Normally this retails for $250 and is usually excluded from the usual 20% off coupons from REI , Dick's Sporting Goods, etc...~~Play harder, work smarter, and live better. The Garmin vivoactive Watch, an ultra-thin, lightweight smart watch with a sunlight-readable, high-resolution, color touchscreen, comes with built-in, GPS-enabled running, biking, and golfing, plus swimming and activity tracking apps. Use on its own or pair with your smart phone to receive gentle alerts for incoming calls, texts, email, and calendar items, plus notifications from social media and other mobile apps. Customize your smart watch with free watch-face designs, widgets, and apps from Garmin's Connect IQ store. Battery charge lasts through all your activities with up to three weeks in watch/activity-tracking mode or up to ten hours using GPS

.Running
Track pace, time, and distance

.Golfing
Download course maps from over 38,000 courses worldwide. Measures shot distance and supports individual scorecards. Know yardage to layups and doglegs. Determine distance to front/middle/back of green.

Cycling
Measure time, distance, and speed

.Activity Tracking
Count your steps, calories, and distance throughout the day. The move bar alert motivates you to move when you've been sitting too long.Additional features:

Ultra-thin, high-resolution, sunlight-readable, color, touchscreen display
Built-in, GPS-enabled running, biking, and golfing, plus swimming and activity tracking apps let you view your stats even when away from your phone
Pairs with your smart phone to gently vibrate and display alerts for incoming calls, texts, emails, and calendar items, plus notifications from social media and other apps

I've got one I bought about four months back on a fluke 20% offsale at LL Bean , who apparently forgot to include this item in the exclusions like all other vendors I had seen, and it turned out that I could get a sort-of smart watch for only $20 more than the price of a decent golf GPS watch. I like it, I'd buy it again, but it's not a perfect product.

Some customer reviews really trash this device for two reasons, neither of them particularlyreasonable:

1) Its screen is dim and hard to see in bad light - yes, that is true, but it's no different than with any monochromeLCD display on a typical running or heart rate monitor watch and like any typical digital watch, it has a backlight, so it's no big deal. Not to mention that part of the reason the color screen is not bright in low light is because it has an extremely effective anti-glare design that leaves it 100% visible under the brightest, most blinding sunlight, plus not being brightly lit gives you 2 weeks of battery life on a charge if you don't use GPS or backlight much.

2) Seems dysfunctional straight out of the box - yep, you really, really need to upgrade the firmware to the latest version, otherwise you may find it won't load certain functions, shuts off and resets for no reason, and has only partial functionality (before I updated the firmware, it did not have the "End Round" option listed, leaving it stuck in golf GPS mode. But after talking with excellent tech support at Garmin and updating the firmware, it has run great since then.

Some things I like about it:

- As a golf watch, it works very well, giving me accuracy to within 1-2 yards on 98% of the holes I've played (one course seemed a bit off, a few other holes here and there were off by maybe 5-7 yards). Battery Life is Good enough for 2 full 18-hole rounds before it needs to be recharged.

- I like the notifications of incomingcalls, messages, e-mails, etc.... especially the alarm feature that lets me set an alarm on my phone, turn off the buzzer, but the watch vibrates and wakes me but not my spouse. However,it isn't a fully functioning smart watch.

- Easy to download the limited supply of apps and new watch faces

- Each charge, which only takes maybe 90 minutes, lasts 2 weeks.

Seems to be pretty accurate as far as distance walked and paces per day but I haven't used most of its fitness tracking features.


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