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Garmin's new Vivofit lasts for a year with an always-on color display
It's hard to stand out in the fitness tracker world when you can easily cover the fundamentals at a very low price. Garmin, however, is trying its level best. It just launched the Vivofit 4, which combines an always-on color display with its predecessor's claimed year-long battery life. You can now check your activity goals or the time without having to either wake up the screen, kill your battery or settle for a drab monochrome display. Logically, the band includes Garmin mainstays like Move IQ automatic activity detection and the Connect online community to get you motivated.
Garmin's Vivofit Jr. rewards kids for being active
Garmin has painted the Vivofit band in lively colors and shrunk it down to create its first activity tracker for kids. Vivofit Jr. can track steps and sleep, as well as how long your kid has been moving, just like the band for adults. And, yes, it can also be worn in the pool. However, since it was still made with children in mind, its companion app comes with some extra features: gaming aspects and the ability to monitor multiple kids' activities.
Garmin's fitness trackers now help you master your calorie balance
There are plenty of apps and gadgets that track the calories you burn during exercise. But comparing those figures with the calories you're taking in? That's harder, which is why Garmin has teamed up with MyFitnessPal to provide a clearer picture of your energy balance. The collaboration melds the calorie consumption data from Garmin devices with MyFitnessPal's activity and nutrition info to create a Calorie In/Out section on Garmin's Connect page. You'll quickly find out if a long run was enough to offset that big dessert, or if you need to eat more to keep up with your workouts. The MyFitnessPal integration is currently limited to the Forerunner 15 GPS watch and the Vivofit tracker, but all Forerunners and Edge bike computers should support the feature this summer.
Garmin's new GPS watch wants to keep you moving on and off the track
Running watches are great when you're headed out for an afternoon of training, but are typically pretty useless when it comes to day-to-day activities. Garmin is looking to change that by combining two of its most popular wearables, the Forerunner 10 and vivofit, into a new device called the Forerunner 15. The device does everything you'd expect from a GPS watch, such as tracking your distance, pace and calories burned during a big run, but it's also meant to be worn all day. Also an activity tracker, it'll encourage you to get up and move if you've been lounging around too long.
Daily Roundup: Garmin Vivofit review, Amazon raises the price of Prime, and more!
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Garmin Vivofit review: a truly fitness-focused activity tracker
Keep moving. That's the message you'll get from anyone offering up fitness advice these days. It's snappy, simple and probably quite valid. The problem is that it can be hard to quantify how much activity is merely part of our basic existential requirements before we get to the part that counts as extra, life-enhancing exercise. As always, technology to the rescue. On this occasion, it's an activity tracker from a company with heritage in this space: Garmin. The product? The Vivofit fitness tracker.
Garmin's Vivofit: hands-on with yet another fitness tracker (video)
We got details for Garmin's Fitbit competitor, the Vivofit, earlier today and now we've had a chance to wrap the thing around our dainty wrists. Garmin tells us the fitness tracker/watch that tells you when you've been lazy has an always-on display with a battery that won't require frequent recharging. With its rubber exterior and simple band design, it's not going to stand out at a glance, but the curved display does offer a bit more screen real estate than most and makes for a comfortable fit. It's relatively inconspicuous, but like just about every other fitness tracker, we wouldn't be caught dead wearing this thing at the opera. While Garmin's promising better battery life than other fitness trackers, a company rep tells us that it won't be compatible with Android or iOS devices to start -- instead allowing "one-touch" uploads of your stats to the online Garmin Community app. Update: Garmin reached out to let us know that compatible Android and iOS apps will be released for the Vivofit.
Garmin takes on Fitbit with Vivofit, a fitness band that nags your weight away
Garmin's been doing the workout thing for a while now in the form of those big fitness-tracking watches. In celebration, no doubt, of the many miles we'll all be walking this week in Vegas, the company's edging in on Fitbit territory with the Vivofit. The band's got a curved display that'll greet you each morning with a daily goal based on your activity level, adjusting accordingly as you hit different milestones. Given Garmin's area of expertise, it's only natural that the device also tracks your progress, including distance, steps and calories -- it'll also send you a friendly reminder when it's time to get off your butt. The Vivofit arrives in Q1 of this year, priced at $130.
