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Garmin Vivoactive 3 GPS Smartwatch with Built-In Sports Apps and Wrist Heart Rate, Gunmetal (Renewed)
£159.71£199.00 (-20%)
- Sporty smartwatch with built-in GPS, sports apps and wrist-based heart rate. Physical size:4.34 x 4.34 x 1.17 cm. Fits wrists with a circumference of 12.7-20.4 cm
- High-resolution colour touchscreen display for enhanced readability in all light and side swipe interface to scroll through widgets and menus
- Sports apps include yoga, cardio, strength training, running, swimming and many more; download pre-set workouts or create custom ones
- Includes fitness monitoring, such as VO2 max and fitness age estimate, plus all-day stress tracking and relaxation-based breathing timer
- Smart notifications including the ability to send prewritten responses to text messages, LiveTrack, Connect IQ watch faces and apps and more
- Case material is polymer. Strap material is silicone
Last updated on April 6, 2023 12:12 am
Additional information
| Batteries | 1 Lithium Ion batteries required. |
|---|---|
| Product Dimensions | 1.17 x 4.34 x 4.34 cm, 320 Grams |
| Date First Available | 7 Jan. 2019 |
| Manufacturer | Garmin |
| Item model number | 010-N1769-10 |
| Country of origin | Taiwan |
| Delivery information | We cannot deliver certain products outside mainland UK ( Details). We will only be able to confirm if this product can be delivered to your chosen address when you enter your delivery address at checkout. |
by Super T
Was going to write that this was my first fitness/smartwatch but that would be a lie, I’d purchased a cheap £55 generic one the week before I purchased this one and whilst I understand that a budget smart watch isn’t going to have all the bells and whistles I was decidedly underwhelmed with it and returned it immediately and went for this one instead.
I was a bit dubious buying a ‘refurbished’ one even after reading the reviews but saving a substantial chunk off the price of a new one helped me decide. I needn’t have worried as it arrived in a proper Garmin box clearly marked refurbished item by Garmin themselves not just checked by some random bloke in a returns dept somewhere and it came properly packaged with the watch, a charging cable and instructions booklets.
Now the main worry I suppose with a used item is the battery life and the description for the refurbished watch states that it should come with at least 80% battery life of a new equivalent, I’ve no reason to doubt that with my one, it lasts me a week at a time on a single charge and I’m wearing it 24 hours a day tracking sleep, at least 30- 60 minutes of exercise tracking per day and a few hours of GPS tracking excursions and the furthest I’ve got the battery down is to about 12% in a week.
The companion app for it (I’m on the android version) is excellent and although took a while to figure out and connect has been pretty much faultless and can be configured for all kinds of activities. I say pretty much faultless but there is an issue with it tracking intensity minutes for some activities but after some online research it appears that this is an ongoing issue with the Garmin software itself and is a problem across android and apple software and various Garmin watches, I’m sure theres some poor programmer at Garmin banging his/her head against an office wall somewhere trying to figure that out.
Having had no personal experience of fitness watches before and wanting to keep an eye on what I was doing during lockdown to keep active I’m very happy with my purchase and now over a month in to ownership I wouldn’t be without it. Highly recommended.
by DD
Nice product but it smells bad as the bracelet is not good material.
by Ian Barkley
Where to start?
Firstly it arrived in Garmin box even though it is ‘ renewed’. I stuck it onto charge and left it for a few mins. You need to download the Garmin connect app and to get the best out of it you will need to pair it to a smart phone, It guides you through the set-up. This only took a few minutes.
Battery usage is slightly more than my old Fitbit. The GPS works well and only takes about 30 secs to pick up signal and that is under trees! The GPS does chew up the battery a bit.
The watch syncs easily to the watch and the data is really interesting. There’s more than enough there for my purposes.
You can download watch faces, maps etc There’s a separate app from Garmin for all that. You will need to wait until the watch updates itself before you can do that but don’t panic, it does sort itself out. Mine updated itself as soon as I unplugged the charger.
I guess it depends on what you want a watch to tell you. If you want to know distance, pace, laps, calories, stress levels, etc then this is great. I love the maps with data to show which bit I struggled on the most.
The sleep info is good too.
by D Simpson
The app and watch itself are great, lots of features. However it is badly let down by the screen, it looks like something off a 20 year old pda, blacks are barely grey and lots of backlight bleed, Resolution is bad too. A real shame as virtually everything else about this watch it fantastic including battery life
by Mr Williams
This is a good entry level smart watch, which on the technical and tracking side worked well, and is typically built for cardio based sports tracking. if you are looking for active calorie tracking for being in the gym, completing circuits and lifting weights, it doesnt have a setting for this, but does allow you to use a setting called other, and will record the usual time, calories burn distance traveled.
The GPS signal is picked up quickly and the tracking is accurate, as i always use two watches when trying a new product to see how closely they track calories, distance, pace ect when running and this preformed as well as any other out their.
The watch is very light and you barely notice you have it on.
You are able to lock the screen when showering or it getting wet, otherwise the touch screen is going wildly through the menus.
it does have a lot of menus and sub-menus which can be button or touch screen controlled; they do take a while to get used to but after a few days become second nature, and you can preset the watch to start tracking your favorite exercises with a button press and selected the particular favorite.
outside of exercise tracking the watch picks up email notifications, pairs with exercise apps and can even answer and decline calls if you are wearing headphones connected to your smart phone. it doesnt offer any text, email or call outgoing responses so is limited, but subject to the notifications you allow it to receive, will update you on most notifications incoming to your phone.
The biggest let down for me was the feel and simplicity of the watch. The strap although lightweight and appeared fit for purpose felt cheap and flimsy, the display is very basic and offers very little in terms of customization of face design or change in color which is a real shame, and for me although this watch is designed to be sports based, would feel like the cheap alternative when you meet up with friends who bare better quality, better looking smart watches which are able to track exercise just as well.