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Garmin is known for their GPS enabled devices but in the past year the company has made a push into the activity tracker market first there was the vivofit activity tracker and then the forerunner 15 a GPS running watch that also included activity tracking and now there's this I'm dan Graziano and I'm here with the garmin vivosmart this little device can track the steps you take distance you travel calories you burn and your sleep at night but that's not it it can also display notifications from your smart phone there's Bluetooth so can connect to your Android or iPhone it's even compatible with wireless heart rate monitors and it's waterproof up to five at meters meaning you can wear it while swimming or in the shower the design is thin flexible and lightweight and most of the time you actually forget you're wearing it this secondary security slider that Garmin calls a vivo keeper helps the device Stan your wrist throughout the day as the name implies the vivosmart includes some smart features you can control your music and view notifications right on your wrist unfortunately though you can't interact with these notifications all of this information is displayed on an invisible OLED screen that appears after you DoubleTap the front of the device the screen can be a little difficult in some environments and I found that the DoubleTap action didn't always wake it up you can however set it to automatically wake up when you raise your hand to your face one of the more interesting smart features is a fine my phone option as long as the vivosmart is in range of your smart phone and of course connected to it the band will display a proximity bar that shows how far you are from your phone at the same time your phone will also ring and vibrate make it easier to locate with all of these features you would expect battery life to take a major hit but that's not the case the vivosmart gets about seven days of battery life which is pretty good conserving everything it does the garmin vivosmart is available now for more information be sure to check out my full review over at cnet.com I'm Dan Grazia Pristina and that was a first look at the garmin vivosmart