![]() The watch does have a Pulse Oxygen sensor which is cool but right after Heart Beat, Pulse Ox, GPS tracking……….I don’t have many requirements. It need a longer pause and to be quicker on resumption of movement. When riding it does the same thing at stop signs and stop lights. When I walk my dog and he stops to do his business the watch stops quickly then starts again not that quickly. The watch has an auto pause feature but boy oh boy does it kick in fast. Not the end of the world but not very intuitive either. ![]() If you ride your bike and take more than a 5 minute break you will have two entries. Garmin, PLEASE let us manually pause our activities. There are ways around that like shutting off the watch completely but I find that to almost be unacceptable. IF YOU DO NOTHING, IN 5 MINUTES IT WILL SAVE AND COMPLETE THE ENTRY.” “THERE IS NO MEANINGFUL PAUSE FEATURE ON THIS WATCH! IF YOU PUSH THE TOP RIGHT BUTTON AT THE END OF AN ACTIVITY YOU HAVE A CHOICE BETWEEN THROWING THE WHOLE THING AWAY OR FINISHING. There is one glaring deficiency in this watch. It’s not a huge deal and only slightly annoying. Most devices just hook back up when in range. I have noticed however that if I get the phone away from the Vivoactive 4 that I have to manually reconnect it to bluetooth to get my activities to upload to Garmin Connect. So your initial impression of the display may be “meh” but go on and take it for a run or ride in bright sunlight. Lift wrist for a second and see my heart rate. A quick glance is all I want to dedicate to see my heart rate or how far my ride has been. When I’m riding my bike on public roads I want to make quick, and sure movements when I’m looking at my watch screen. While you are indoors it may seem dim and you may have to tap the touchscreen to see it well and it looks a bit washed out……….HOWEVER COMMA……….when you get out in direct sunlight YOU CAN SEE THE SCREEN PERFECTLY. What it has is what they refer to as a sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) display. ![]() This doesn’t have a fancy AMOLED screen which everyone loves. My Fitbit Charge 4…………I can’t see the screen in direct sunlight. Sure Garmin Connect will show you your ride on a map but you can do so many more things such as creating a route or an adventure or make corrections if you have any issues.īut how does it work otherwise? By my estimation…….GREAT! In comparison my Amazfit watch is buggy and the app has connection problems especially with Strava from time to time. It works with the very excellent mapping program Garmin Basecamp. Right away that is a gigantic plus for me. Then you can create routes or whatever you want to do. I can then drag and drop one track in the folder at a time to view just that one track. The way to just see one track on the map is to create a new List which I named Vivoactive Clean Map.
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