Garmin vívomove Trend, Stylish Hybrid Smartwatch, Long-Lasting Battery Life, Dynamic Watch Hands and Touchscreen Display, Ivory

Great Watch! Hoping for some minor things next time…
This is really a great watch! The battery life is pretty great, the sensors are great for every day users, and the best part is how classy this watch looks. This watch actually works decently for fitness tracking. It is absolutely no replacement to a dedicated fitness watch like the 255 and 955, but even though it leaves me for wanting what those watches provide, it gives me more than I could have ever hoped for in its fitness abilities. Its sleep/awake tracking is scarily accurate. And its heart rate sensor is fairly good too. I do wish they had used their latest heart rate sensor because even though this is more accurate than many other devices out there, it still makes me question how accurate the reading is because I know it’s not Garmin’s best/latest iteration. Obviously if you are getting this watch though, it is mostly because of the design. And the design is precisely why I bought this watch and encourage anyone else with high taste to do the same. You will definitely want to get a classier looking watch strap than the one that comes with the watch, but the one provided with the watch works great for any fitness tracking you wish to do with the watch. I do, however, have a couple things that I really wish Garmin would improve. This watch is a different entry than the Garmin Style and Garmin Luxe, so I can forgive the plastic case to an extent. But a new watch with a gold/rose gold/silver/etc. case is long overdue. I like the design of this watch except for the plastic case (which still looks trendy, but not as classy as I would hope), but I still ended up getting this watch because the Style and Luxe are so outdated. I love the fact you can get notifications and even reply to notifications on-screen. I like the pre-set notifications, but I would like to see the ability to give full replies like my 7-year older Android Wear watch could provide. A speak to text option would be even better. These are options that I’m sure would be doable for a watch like this (so long as the microphone wouldn’t ruin the design). My final suggestion would be to open this watch up to the app store. It has a full screen, and many apps and custom watch faces could still be added to this watch, even if they are more limited in options. In a perfect dream world, GPS, better battery life, and everything else that the 955 provides would be incredible to have in a watch like this, even if I had to pay more. But I understand the limits due to design, and I would prefer the design of this as a daily wearable over the 955 any day. But I will continue to use the 255 (eventually the 965 when it comes out) as my only fitness tracking watch when I receive it because it can do so much more. Hope this review helps!

Not hands-free, but it’s pretty
Big fan of this watch, minus the fact that you can’t see an incoming text hands-free. You can see “message” from whoever, but to actually see the text you have to tap the screen and I don’t always have both hands available for it, at that point I might as well just check my phone. Other than that it’s very stylish and even with all the features on that claim to drain battery life, it still lasts 5 days so that’s nice.

Smartwatch features and sensors in a “regular watch” format, but useless as a regular watch
I’m interested in the hybrid smartwarch format, where a relatively normal watch is equipped with sensors for heartrate, pedometer (accelerometers), and O2 saturation, without being either a) something rectangular that looks like a miniature smartphone strapped to my wrist, or b) a giant thick chunky and knobby monstrosity like the flagship Garmin smartwatches. The vivomove line seemed to fit my requirements, with a set of traditional analog hands that put its identity as a watch foremost, and a screen that’s “hidden” as part of the watch face, and which lights up only on demand. Despite some mixed professional reviews I decided to give it a try.What it does well is to keep the case format in the range of what you’d expect from a traditional watch. Round, not too thick, not too large-looking on the wrist, and overall unobtrusive and something one can wear to any occasion. The sensors are pretty good, but they get inaccurate (erratic) if the watch is worn loosely. As with any sensor-equipped watch, the sensors have to be in contact with the skin, so the watch has to be worn a little more tighly than some might prefer. The battery life is so-so. A traditional watch may last for years, or indefinitely (if it has kinetic or solar charging built-in), but on the other hand a full-on smartwatch might only have a single day of endurance. The vivomove’s give up to 5 days, and the Trend has wireless charging, so it’s not the worst compared to alternatives like an Apple Watch. The screen is clear, and I like how the mechanical hands move out of the way when interacting with the information, and in some cases the hands even form part of the information (like aligning to a graphed level/meter). Cute. The app is so-so (Garmin Connect is the same app one would use for any Garmin active connected product). It’s not the best, but unlike some, no paid subscription is required to “unlock” any of the tracking/lifestyle features. The watch is unobtrusive, tracks sleep well if worn at night, can do everything I need in terms of tracking my workouts and bike rides, and overall checks many of the boxes that I got it for.However, where it falls completely flat is as a watch. Most color options for the vivomove Trend (with one exception) have mechanical hands that are the same color as the watch face. There’s no contrast. A little bit of gray paint/highlight is applied to the outer portions of the hands, but it makes no real difference. In bright daylight or bright indoor lighting, the hands aren’t glanceable, but at least they’re visible. In normal indoor lighting, it’s a struggle to see them at all, and the (for some reason) radially applied GARMIN logo at the 9 o’clock position competes with the hands and confuses the attempt to read the time. In twilight or darker indoor settings (e.g. watching TV), the hands are utterly invisible. Neither the hands nor any of the tick marks on the face have any luminosity in the dark. I find that for the most part, the only way to tell the time is to wake up the screen, and ensure that the selected digital watch face includes the “current time” as one of its “complications.” Raising the wrist is supposed to wake the screen, but that doesn’t always work, and tapping the screen also doesn’t always work, so after several times where I’ve hard-tapped the crystal 5 times in a row to get the screen to come on, just so I could tell what time it is, I’m done with this experiment.So, overall, I’ve decided I don’t like the vivomove watches and am already awaiting a replacement that does a better job at being a watch (Withings Scanwatch 2). I suggest, if you’re in the market to try it, that you look very closely at the color options and try to find one where the hands aren’t the same color as the face. The Trend has one option with a silver face and gold hands, so maybe go with that if you like those colors. I went for the black case with black face (and black hands), and wow, what a mistake. Haven’t looked closely at the color options for other vivomove lines (Luxe, etc.), maybe one of those has better contrast. I noticed that at least one of the other lines (the Sport, I think) puts the GARMIN logo at the top, vs. radially, which would also be an enormous improvement.

Die Uhr sieht sehr schön aus und lässt sich gut mit dem Handy verbinden und man hat alles im Blick. Die Uhr hat sehr viele Funktionen und ist sehr schnell geladen. Wenn ich die Uhr laden will einfach das Kabel an die Uhr und ich muss dafür nicht die Uhr auseinander nehmen

This was a gift for my wife who isn’t tech-intuitive and she loves it. Does everything her Venu SQ did and more but looks more stylish and is as easy to use. Arrived the next day, works as expected.