Garmin vivoactive 3 Music - GPS Smartwatch with Music Storage and Playback - Black

This is a fabulous piece of kit. As a sports and fitness GPS tracker it does everything I want with great accuracy and, via the phone app, provides a wealth of performance information. I like to run with music, and this holds about 3GB, enough for quite a few hours, and it pairs easily with my headphones. Start/stop is via the single button, with all other functions accessible via the touch screen, which is very intuitive and works the same as a smartphone, so swapping from the sports data screen mid run to change your music or do something else takes just a couple of screen swipes.The watch face is fully customisable with a wide range of faces available to download (for a small fee to unlock the features, in most cases). I’ve chosen one that displays the current weather, the forecast, step count, heart rate and daily calories, with a wide variety of colours to choose from. And it also shows the time! What will they think of next.I also use Garmin Pay for contactless payments. At the moment its only supported in the UK by Santander, but I’m sure more banks will be added soon.Synchronised with your smartphone, you can choose to receive incoming call, text and app notifications, which I find very useful.Battery life is very impressive. I charge mine overnight, but even worn overnight it’s never dropped below 80%. Amazing technology, well done Garmin.

Great watch, previously had a Samsung Gear 3 and was worried I was done grading. Quite the opposite, it is a sleek looking watch light and the smart functions are just as good. The only difference being the notifications are all similar text style messages. But just as effective. The battery life is great and running without carrying the phone is great. Music upload by Spotify is simple and loading mp3s also easy.All round a great watch and an upgrade from the gear s3.

I am a dedicated Garmin user, this is my third watch. I am using my watch for running, cycling, yoga, martial arts, monitoring sleeping levels, checking my heart rate (official smart watch addict). After having used Vivoactive 3 music for a month, this is my experience so far:- The watch is easy to use. More user friendly than the previous Vivoactive models.- The design is beautiful, I have received a lot of compliments for my watch. It also very light to wear, thus it makes it easy to have it on 24/7- The VO2 max is a great addition for measuring the activities.- I have found the stress level measurement to be helpful and quite accurate.- Finally yoga had been added as a pre existing activity.- All activities are easy to modify and the design is accommodating easy review during the activity.- Regarding the music feature, the apps that it is compatible with are not widely popular, however, there is always the option to manually download the music through the desktop app.- Can’t say much about the wallet app, for the time being, one of the biggest international banks is not compatible with the watch.- I am not using the watch for swimming as water-resistant and waterproof are two very different things. My dad’s Vivoactive HR got toasted in the sea within minutes, mine survived multiple sessions in open waters, however, it had eventually a cracked screen. Therefore, I am terrified to test my £300 watch even in the shower..- Finally, regarding the sleeping monitoring, I am not that impressed. The hours are not consistent and the different sleep phases seem to be very uneven, either I have developed serious sleeping disorders in the last month or sleeping measurements should be taken with a pinch of salt.Overall, I would definitely recommend buying this watch, it is great for people with small activity in their lives up to highly active people for a quite reasonable price for what it is offering. However, if you don’t care for the music feature, you should definitely go for the Vivoactive 3.

I deliberated for some time about which Garmin was going to be right for me. I had previously owned the forerunner 230, but had traded that for the Samsung watch.As a smart watch the Samsung wins hands down, however for me it annoyed me more than I liked it. I looked at the Garmin 645 and fenix range as I wanted a watch that could track my jogs, the occasional game of golf and a few laps of the pool, as well as get notifications.I realised I wasn't going to sell my kidney so the Fenix range soon got discounted, and the 645, at the time of writing didn't allow for golf, so the VA3 was the one I settled, and wanting music when I'm jogging I opted for the music version.When it first arrived I did think it was a joke watch due to it being so light. Setting it up and linking it to Spotify was easy. The Garmin app has been updated, it is easy to use and has a whole host of information.The running function is superb, you can change the data field to whatever you want and when you turn your wrist you can easily see the information. The connection to my Bose headphones has never failed or missed a beat. The only slight negative was when I was out in the rain wearing a long sleeved top the touchscreen was activated and would change the screen and give you the occasional vibrate which was off putting but easily rectified, and it couldn't stop the activity as this done on the one and only button.I was sceptical about the touchscreen but it worked well with sweaty fingers out jogging, wet fingers in the rain and gloved fingers when golfing.When playing golf the display was brilliant, as you can see from the photos very easy to see in direct sunlight and provides all the information I needed. From about 7 rounds the watch has been confused twice and put me on an incorrect hole. I changed this manually which was easy enough and didn't hold up play. The accuracy has always been spot matching the markers on the course (on the odd occasion I was on the fairway).Swimming is fine, select pool length and off you go, not loads of data but basic and enough for my needs.I wear formal shirts for work, this watch is slight enough that my sleeve can pass over it when checking the time, so no more looking like I'm trying to get out of a straight jacket.Overall I'm really happy with the watch and being back with the Garmin family.I'm sure the biking mode will be great but I haven't used it as I have a bike specific computer.I would definitely recommend this product.