Garmin Vivomove Trend Review: Wireless Charging!

One of the greatest ache factors with health trackers is how each has its personal proprietary charger. It’s a severe inconvenience—for those who neglect a Lightning connector or a USB-C charger, you’ll be able to at all times borrow one from a pal or discover one in a retailer. But a proprietary Fitbit connector? Sorry! Guess you received’t be getting your steps tallied on that Italian strolling trip!

So it was with a way of just about mystical reverence that I eliminated the Vivomove Trend from my wrist and positioned it on the Qi charging pad subsequent to my desk. I leaned over it breathlessly and examined the display. Charging! Granted, it’s not extremely quick, however it works! Never once more will I be trapped on a piece journey with an uncharged watch!

Garmin’s newest entry-level hybrid watch remains to be a little bit clunky to function, however I do love its engaging, streamlined appears to be like and that new charging system. Wireless charging on any Qi charging pad is nearly magical. That, in itself, does rather a lot to place it on the head of the pack.

Best of Both Worlds

If you wish to monitor your well being with out carrying an overtly chunky, sporty watch, you may have a couple of choices. Withings makes a tracker that appears as very similar to an analog watch as attainable; Fossil’s Wellness watch packs as many metrics as attainable into an analog watch face.

The Vivomove Trend provides you the perfect of each worlds. It is available in a wide range of colorways (my tester is an attractive, if barely dated, peach gold with an ivory band). It has a dainty 40.4-mm case and an analog watch face. However, once you click on in your machine within the Garmin Connect app, you’ll be able to decide as much as three issues that can be seen once you swing the watch up towards your face.

This permits for rather more customization than you would possibly assume, as a result of among the issues can mix—I opted for the Techie face, with the date up high and steps, battery, and flooring climbed on the underside.

To begin an exercise, test your coronary heart price, go to settings, or set a stopwatch or timer, you simply contact your fingertip to the watch face. With a haptic buzz, the choices pop up as glowing icons. If you click on via to the timer however then notice you wish to begin an exercise as an alternative, you swipe again. As a facet observe, I do want extra trackers would simply embrace one measly on-off button. (Even analog watches have no less than one button!)

The buzz additionally alerts you once you get a notification or begin an exercise (you’ll be able to change the power of the excitement, however I didn’t discover an enormous distinction). You can both begin an exercise manually or activate auto exercise monitoring with Garmin’s Move IQ.

Move IQ is remarkably correct—it picked up a wild 3-minute sprint from the parking storage to a physician’s appointment—however for those who begin an exercise manually, you must double-tap to start out the exercise when you’ve chosen it. Since it connects to GPS by way of your telephone, my tracked outcomes from strolling, biking, and working are in step with outcomes from different trackers—except I forgot to start out the exercise manually, which occurred rather a lot.