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hey everyone this is Jimmy with Jim's review room now Garman earlier this year made the Garmin vivofit a lightweight very simple activity band that does well in reporting your activity well with garment now second activity band the garmin vivosmart that is priced at $169 retail at the time this video that brings in new features and also a new design so we'll go into its physical build and comfort and then it's a pin detail to see if this bin might be for you so without further ado welcome to another review although the vivosmart weight is similar to other bands at 19 grams which is light it's actually one of the most comfortable bands I've worn to date it's because of this very smooth silicone finish refraining from using any textures and the addition of using notches to fit your wrist perfectly and just something to be aware about I have about medium sized wrists and the only sizes are available are small and large now I did buy the small though and you can see I'm nearly on the very last notch here again take into consideration when buying you might have to jump up to the large now on the budget-friendly view fit a small handful of consumers didn't mention at times the band would unsnap so the view of smart actually does address this by offering what they dubbed the vivo keeper preventing the band from becoming undone but using the band I have yet to have the band unsnap on me without the view of a keeper but the device is still fairly new so take that with a grain of salt overall it's very subtle but I still think it's fashionable the silicon has been very durable and showed no signs of wear and to stress again this is very comfortable from everyday use to working out and running now it's also water resistant up to 50 meters per garments website allowing you to do some light water activities without worrying about any issues now moving on to the screen here the vivosmart doesn't have any physical buttons but it's touch activated tap twice and this turns on the OLED screen now touch screens are hit or miss on some activity bands but you can see turning it on it's not as fluid or responsive at times however and a big however once it's on scrolling either left or right my experience and testing showed it to be very responsive even lightly swiping yielded perfect results and this could be intentional by Garmin to prevent accidentally bumping the band during the day and especially of course when you're wearing this at night sleeping now starting on the very first bit of information here not only use your time displayed but the band distinguishes the particular weekday or weekend and the numeric day now scrolling to the right reveals messages and notifications in the band of course pairs and syncs with your tablet or smartphone both on Apple and Android powered devices and whenever you receive a notification on your device it vibrates and shows a band as well next up our controls to control your media the next is your distance measured through your steps calories burned and the next section I wanted to discuss is the move bar identical to the vivofit this screen over time shows you how long you've been consecutively inactive for now the first bar once filled will blink in the band will vibrate indicating one hour of not really moving around reminding you to get up and move now the following bars will blink and indicate every 15 minutes of an activity after that again this is a great feature and a great reminder to keep moving now next are your smart goals now after you setup your app with your age weight etc garment sets a goal for you over time Garmin learns you're walking habits basically how many steps you actually take throughout the day and adjust your goal on a daily basis now the last bit of info is the total steps taken which is self-explanatory and then now holding down the band for two seconds reveals additional features which goes a bit beyond the standard measurements mentioned above when compared to other manufacturers or bands now there's a stopwatch feature right in the band itself with the band estimating your running distance now backing out here the crescent moon is to activate sleep mode right before you sleep which measures your movement throughout the night and I'll show that in the app shortcut in the brightest settings and direct sunlight it's still quite difficult to see now I'm going over to the next page here privacy settings for notifications is the triangle with the exclamation point and then to the right of that is a nifty feature as well have you ever misplaced your phone or tablet you're connected to to find it press that middle icon and it will cause your phone or tablet to beep loudly for you to find in the house now the band itself also has a strength meter indicating you're getting warmer to your loss device and last are the arrows indicating to sync your band's information and the very last menu of items here are really self-explanatory with toggling your Bluetooth on or off next is changing the time on your band and be very less indicates what version of the band you're using with the battery level now the moment you've been waiting for going through the Garmin Connect app it's the same exact app that the Garmin vivofit uses now starting with the home page all the menu blocks or windows are movable so if your screen looks a little bit different than mine that's exactly why but I personally have my notifications on top with these step indicator next you can see on your screen reviews the amount of steps so far taken your distance calories burn and your auto goal set by Garmin now if you click on details this breaks down with a nice bar graph revealing when you were the most and least active and you can pause the video just to get a glimpse of my days here now backing out here and moving to the next window is the calories burned and what's great about the Garmin app here it syncs with a very popular MyFitnessPal app and you can log in your food intake measuring calories now it's a great way not only for the band to do work and just calories burn but if you use My Fitness Pal it's also very important to lock in your consumption too and both apps work with each other now backing out once again here next are activities you can by Garmin's heart rate monitor with this band for a total of two hundred dollars as a package and you can log in your workouts heart rate which I always say if a band room manufacturer offers a heart rate recording feature by the heart rate monitor now it's much more accurate and during your workout it really does help you by indicating when your heart rate drops when you're actually trying to keep up a certain level and if you already have a heart rate monitor or can get one cheaper just purchase one or news one that's using a mt+ technology which should be compatible with this band now returning to the home page here a quick glance at your recent sleep is shown clicking on details will give you a bit better indication on what kind of sleep you're actually getting with the fluctuations indicating the amount of movement recorded throughout the night a good way to see if you're getting good rest now backing out to the main homepage again you have badges basically achievement icons for reaching certain milestones in regards to steps that's pretty self-explanatory but the following is very intriguing segments allows you to pull up on the map of other individuals we have ran that same trail and it indicates their best times showing their total time distance and their speed per mile to measure pace now if you're a runner this is a great tool to see where you stand against others right in your own area or part of town and that's it basically essentially my homepage and the most predominant features I think people are likely interested in or to news now if you click on edit you can remove your established windows but if you want to add other informational windows tap that plus sign right there and you have some other windows which I personally didn't use workouts and courses allows you to create your own courses in your area and workouts customized by you through the Garmin Connect website and PRS and your weight is manually inputted at your discretion now other than the home page if you click on the menu button here on the top left you can try to make friends and compare and challenge them through community with the ability to look up random people and send them friend requests hopefully your friends your personal friends that is or other family members have government products too and you can see their info here as well it's a great way to see who's on top of the leaderboards and it motivates you to do better in another way now going back to the menu here devices are shown which is self-explanatory and last is live track which is basically sharing your activity on to social media sites like Facebook or Twitter so the entire time of using the device in Garmin claims about seven days of battery life and considering how many notifications I received which is a lot I mean using this device pretty extensively I can confirm that the battery lasted six days in almost twelve hours not bad at all the vivofit will last the whole year though but the view fit does use a different technology overall now the charging cradle at first looked bulky and odd considering no other band really as this design it's usually just a plug-and-play basically using a micro USB cord and then you're done but with this cradle after a while and only using it once every 6 to 7 days it wasn't a big deal and was fine to use to be honest with you and if you're interested in there's many other activity bands that reviewed at my channel at Jim's review room if you want to compare features and also my experience so I personally have been very happy with as vivosmart having the ability to pair this with the heartrate monitor the very comfortable band and the many other features this thing has I really believe it really makes it worth the 170 to 200 dollar price tag and again at the time of this video not many bands offer all these features in one package so hope this video helped you in some way if you did like my work please take your time and like and subscribe to my channel as it does help me providing you more content like this and be sure to share this and also find me on Facebook Twitter and Google+ for behind the scenes information this is Jimmy with Jim's review room you guys take care bye you