Fall in love with running again. Jiaming Vivoactive Watch Evaluation

IT 168 evaluation life lies in sports. There are many forms of falling in love with sports, but there is only one purpose: to have a better physical and mental state. In terms of running, what can make you persist or even addicted at this moment is probably a smart watch that can wake up sports cells. Friends who want to form running habits, sports monitoring and data analysis of smart watches urge you to quickly invest in all aspects of this sport, so that you can learn to pursue real and scientific sports state. Looking at the ever-changing data in watches and mobile apps, like the mileage accumulated by walking or running for hundreds of kilometers every month, the track recorded by GPS, and the calories burned, you will find that these are all the results of your active efforts, which will inspire you to take action next time and gradually form a virtuous circle.

As a runner with a little professional knowledge, if you are still struggling with a smart watch with a few hundred yuan, you can't count the steps, use the mobile phone GPS to "simulate" the path to lead a jogging life, have doubts about the workmanship and waterproof rating of the watch, or have an idea to start a sports watch in one step, Garmin Vivoactive said that he has something to say. Garmin Vivoactive？ Click buy >>& gt

This watch brings powerful functions such as color touch screen, three-week battery life, 50-meter waterproof, professional data monitoring, intelligent reminder, rich option design, GPS+GLONASS dual-satellite positioning, etc. These are very eye-catching, and Xiaobian's last one can get more accurate movements through mobile phones. GPS positioning is Garmin's "family gift". Vivoactive is not the only smart watch with built-in GPS on the market, nor is it Garmin's only smart watch. However, it is rare to integrate dual-satellite positioning into smart watches. Compared with GPS positioning alone, the positioning speed and accuracy of double stars have important research significance. Of course, data monitoring records, wearing comfort and design are all worth mentioning. The following small series will take you to understand:

Vivoactive is a smart watch tailored for men and friends. It is equipped with an angular square dial, a wide wristband, shiny metal buttons and buckles. It has become a masterpiece of rough and wild beauty and mature atmosphere in many smart watches. Vivoactive is also a smart watch for me, which is very worthy of being watered by sweat and showing its sportsmanship.

Vivoactive adopts 1.38 inch 205× 148 pixel color LCD screen, and the virtual button for returning to the+menu is below. Like the traditional electronic watch, it can provide clear visibility on the screen without the help of backlight during the day, and it can also achieve excellent reading effect outdoors, because the screen can't be closed, and you can immediately see the time and date by raising your hand. On the contrary, if the light is dim, the display effect will be worse. The home page of the screen is displayed in black and white, thus achieving the longest battery life of three weeks claimed by the government.

When the lighting conditions get worse at night, you can turn on the screen backlight by pressing the power button on the left side of the watch, but this will also bring the price of sharp increase in power consumption.

The dial is 8mm thick and the frame is all metal. The design foundation is good, which brings fashion and simplicity, but it also takes away the original heavy feeling of metal, because the weight of the dial is not felt at all.

The back of the dial is covered with a delicate plastic surface, but this surface is not completely flat because there is a label paper attached to it. In fact, wearing it for a long time is not as comfortable as expected, and red sweat marks will still appear when the wrist accumulates too much sweat.

The strap is the most obvious part of the weight, which is very generous. Even if it's tight, it won't be too tight. Using silicone material, it is more suitable for caring for fragile wrist skin than ordinary rubber strap. The strap also adopts twill design to reduce the contact area with the skin and dredge the air. In addition, the bold perforation design makes the key perforation smoother.

Vivoactive uses magnetic suction seat to charge, and USB port can be connected to computer. In this case, the battery takes about 90- 120 minutes from zero to full, and it can also be used to browse files in the watch, which is convenient for users to export data for PC through Garmin software.

Symmetrical with the power button is a physical button, which will pop up the function page when pressed. Two pages * * * have nine options, most of which are single data records of different sports in various occasions, which are saved as an "activity" in Garmin Connect. Later, Bian Xiao will introduce the outdoor running function separately.

At the same time, the screen supports touch, and there are only three actions: turning pages left and right, returning and popping up menus, which makes the operation easy and smooth. Sliding from the time home page to the right is the sports data page, which records the daily walking mileage, calories consumed, times of getting up (5 times, the time required to get up each time), walking steps and target walking steps.

If you want to record the sleep quality in Garmin Connect, you can press the menu button on this page, and then touch "Start Sleep Monitoring" in the pop-up window. Then the watch screen is locked on the time home page, and the date display in the lower left corner becomes "Sleep". At this time, the watch will start to monitor the total length of your sleep, judge your sleep quality at night through the activity of exercise, and display it in Garmin Connect as a trend chart. If you don't turn on sleep monitoring, it will be like the one on the right that basically can't record data.

Vivoactive's built-in notification page supports SMS and incoming call reminders such as QQ, WeChat, SMS and email, and is also equipped with vibration feedback, such as important notification or incoming call. If you can't feel the vibration or ringing of your mobile phone in your trouser pocket, the watch will inform the user at the nearest distance. In addition, in Garmin Connect, you can choose any program that displays notifications on the screen.

Vivoactive's integrated music remote control function makes music sound easier. In the process of running and fitness, holding a mobile phone will hinder the natural swing arm movement, and it is also prone to accidents such as bumping and hand sliding. With the music remote control function, all buttons such as switching songs, adjusting the volume, and starting/pausing play allow runners to listen to songs at will, and put the mobile phone in a special arm pocket or wallet to ensure safety.

There is also a little unkind here: after you set a song, the music control interface will automatically switch to the time home page within a few seconds. Like me, I like to change a song or adjust the volume after running for a while, and I have to slide a few times to switch to the music control interface. These actions are enough to slow down the pace of running, in fact, it is no more convenient than opening the phone screen to unlock.

The weather forecast on the watch is to read the online data of Garmin Connect. The weather of the day is not much different from the weather forecast for the next four days, and the temperature value is not much different from other weather apps. It is also feasible to add real-time temperature and wind speed detection function to this smart watch, which mainly records GPS tracks.

As long as Bluetooth is still there, even if the mobile phone is far out of sight, just ring the bell at Garmin Connect to find out the hidden mobile phone!

Rich setting options are one of the advantages of Vivoactive. You can set the dialing style, turn on GPS+GLONASS dual positioning, Bluetooth pairing, user data management, alarm clock and many other settings, adding up to dozens. I won't go into details here, but friends with watches can study it slowly.

Next, let Bian Xiao, as a road runner, experience the built-in GPS recording function of the watch. First of all, let's take a look at how this smart watch of 1799 yuan performs in terms of step counting accuracy:

In the video, the built-in step counting sensor of Vivoactive is accurate, but the real-time update is a bit slow. Sometimes the counter has to take two or three steps to keep up. It is too late to deal with frequent steps occasionally, but at least these two or three steps can be accurately recorded. It seems that even running can't avoid the similar problem of slow data synchronization, but I can still calculate all my steps in the end, which is quite satisfactory.

Garmin, who started with the development and production of GPS navigator, also added dual positioning technology to Vivoactive. You can turn on GLONASS while turning on ordinary GPS to improve the positioning accuracy. GLONASS (GLONASS) is a global positioning system developed by Vienna in 1990s, which is unusual in high-end smart watches! After starting the positioning, Vivoactive successfully searched for the star about half a minute later, and the screen prompts "GPS has been positioned".

Next, we need to add a running activity to the watch to record the data of the whole running process: time, pace and distance, and also use the initial GPS positioning to record the route. Press the function key to start recording activities, and you can start running. Pay attention to the above picture, the edge of the screen is an orange box, that is, the watch senses that the runner stops exercising, or the runner manually presses the function key to stop recording data. When you exercise again, the watch will record again.

If you only need to record a certain distance, press the function key at the end of the time and click "Save", then the data of this distance will be uploaded to Garmin Connect and displayed in the form of data and charts; Otherwise, click "Cross" to cancel the recording.

By default, the running page is divided into two pages. The previous page records the time accumulation, average pace and distance accumulation of a single activity; If you want to run high quality and high performance on the runway, you can use lap speed, lap speed and lap distance on the next page.

For many runners, pace is the most important data besides heart rate. It is necessary to balance the running quality step by step and keep healthy. Wearing Vivoactive, runners can compare the data many times, review the improvement space, and sum up the pace that is most suitable for them to run out of the ideal state. Vivoactive supports ANT+ protocol devices. If you pay more attention to the influence of heart rate, you may wish to buy it with a heart rate belt.

Just like Bian Xiao, I think running around the track is really boring. I can't wait to wear headphones along the irregular roads around the community and enjoy the people and things on the road while jogging. As a person who has just fallen in love with running again, time, pace and heart rate are not so important.

It began to rain heavily before running for 3 kilometers. Watches and mobile phones are waterproof, but people are not. It's still early, I'd better run home. ...

The data just recorded is uploaded to Garmin Connect as a separate activity content. When you click on an activity, the first thing you see is a summary of general data, which can be shared in the upper right corner for friends to comment on. Bian Xiao's favorite thing is that APP uses map software to display the movement track recorded by the watch! And this is also the function that best reflects the value of Vivoactive!

The GPS track is a function that cooperates with Baidu map. The map can be scaled freely, and the information displayed on it is as rich as opening Baidu map APP directly. These two pictures are the trajectories of two activities, and the green label, red solid line and red label represent the starting point, running route and ending point respectively. When it comes to the accuracy of GPS positioning, it can be as high as more than 90% without dense trees and buildings.

The picture on the left is a good example. This picture records the distance from the door of the community to the downstairs after a sudden heavy rain. Because we have to go through main roads and relatively empty sidewalks and commercial squares, GPS positioning conditions are ideal. In my opinion, the positioning accuracy in Vivoactive is basically the same as the route I took.

The picture on the right shows me entering from another gate in the community and starting to record. I ran hundreds of meters because the heavy rain was over. It is obviously running along the white path on the right, but the APP shows the deviated route, because the trees along the way are very tight and the leaves are very dense, which affects the positioning GPS. However, Vivoactive can still track a continuous route, at least it can tell me where it is going.

The second page records the data recorded in detail in the activity, from distance, time, calories and pace to pace frequency, stride and height. Of course, many events are converted by time and distance, but they also bring some research value to runners.

The fourth page is the picture version of the second page, which makes the data presentation easier to understand.

Full text summary:

The accurate expression of more professional forms of data such as pace, pace frequency and motion trajectory is the reason why I fell in love with Garmin Vivoactive. I especially admire that dozens of setting options have been added to the function list. With the mobile APP, you can basically achieve everything you want, which is extremely user-friendly, but it needs a familiar process. The slim body and generous strap design make you feel comfortable when you first get started. In terms of touch screen experience, it has good operability and fluency, but it is not in line with my personal "luck" in habits, especially when controlling music.

In a word, Garmin Vivoactive gave me a satisfactory experience except that the price was not close to the people and the operating habits were not enough. If you have enough spare money to upgrade your running equipment, this 1799 Garmin Vivoactive smart sports watch should not be missed. Garmin Vivoactive？ Click buy >>& gt