The new Garmin Watches Vivoactive GPS smartwatch, and the Garmin watches Vivofit2

Garmin  watches

Garmin has announced a metric crapton products today, but the fact is VivoActive'm definitely happier. Or, at least, the device is feel has the most potential and the widest possible appeal. But maybe I'm getting a little ahead.The VivoActive is the first truly intelligent Garmin shows - but unlike many others did really want to appeal to athletes. For starters, including GPS. And all that may appear sporting goods, of course, is not a common occurrence in smart watches. Neither the tightness of 50 meters while we find VivoActive. 

 And in this case, they really want to go with him - because it has a pool followed. This is a derivative thereof found swimming tracking and other swimming Garmin multisport Garmin GPS devices. But VivoActive is not the only published in the living area in January. So did some minor changes in the Vivofit, reorga nization with the following version: Vivofit2. These settings include vibration alarm and backlight, and a series of colored bands. Currently there are several tapes, devices that could be selected to receive either of my arms.And finally, Garmin Connect IQ execution begins. First, you start with the dials of clocks and data fields, but will soon be complete applications (soonish) extended. I'll dig a little later this week in a separate post. Close IQ, but is designed for Garmin GPS watch Epix, seeing VivoActive GPS, GPS provides Fenix3 and announced FR920XT GPS clock.

First up is the Vivoactive, this is Garmin’s new ultra-slim smartwatch.  Think of it as part traditional smartwatch, part activity tracker, and part fitness GPS watch – all rolled into one.  Oh, with a side of golfing added in for good measure.
The watch contains a touch screen as well as one physical button on each side, with a further two dedicated touch-sensitive button-ish areas below the touch screen.
We’ll start with Garmin’s strongest area which is fitness tracking.  The Vivoactive contains three base sport modes – swimming, cycling, and running.  Within each of those modes it’ll track your speed, distance, time and sensor data such as heart rate or cadence.

Of course my first thought when noticing the swim mode is that this might just make for a perfect replacement for my aging Garmin Swim watch.  And to a large degree, that’s true.  It’ll record swim metrics like laps, time, and lengths, as well as show you your current pace just like Garmin’s other pool swim tracking watches.

Where you see some slight differences though is in some of the more advanced swim capabilities like the interval rest timer and drill mode found on the other Garmin swim devices.  These functions aren’t currently available on the Vivoactive, which I think is a bit of a mistake.  I suspect the addition of those functions would convert a lot of people that have the Garmin Swim still in their swim bags, especially with the Bluetooth Smart uploading of completed workouts via your phone straight to sites like Training Peaks and Sport Tracks that have detailed swim analysis modules.
Moving on from swimming to cycling, the unit will leverage the internal GPS chip to capture speed and distance data and display that within your data pages.

 These data pages are fully customizable – another nice bump up from something like the budget Edge 200 or Forerunner 15 which have historically lacked much data page configuration.  Here you can tweak data pages and select any of the data metrics shown on each page as you want.

And remember that since it supports Connect IQ, you can add in basically any data field on this planet that a 3rd party company might make.
Before we leave cycling note that it supports the ANT+ speed and cadence sensors natively, but that with Connect IQ someone could relatively easily extend it to record power meter data too.
Next, if headed outside running it’ll use the GPS chip there as well to track your run pace and distance just like any other Garmin GPS device.  Indoors it can go GPS-less by using the internal accelerometer to track pace and distance, such as if running on a treadmill.