I have been using this watch for the last 8 months and i love it! Perfect "activity tracker" and ofcourse a very good smartwatch. But not the best "smart watch". Just before giving my comments, i want to mention the below features that you missed to mention, 1. It has inbuilt Yoga activities to track the performance. 2. Battery easily lasts for 5-7 days (and not 2-3 days). It is compact. I have seen my colleagues wearing Amazfit, but this is very much fitting on my wrist and I don't have to bother much if I will bang against the wall. It just doesn't track an activity. It is more than a coach/trainer. You get insights from the Garmin app on how you have been improving yourself over the period and on which days you are toning down, etc, etc. GPS is real class. I think GPS is Garmin's expertise and it connects in just a few seconds. I quit gym and i have moved into jogging, aerobics and other workouts that i can do on field, as this motivates me in tracking my performance and monitoring my activities throughout the day (basically i am recovering my expense on Garmin). Only drawback is that the outer color on the frame comes off if you had badly banged on the wall or something. Guys, if you are passionate about sports, fitness and also a smartwatch then this is the brand (if not the model). But, if you are looking for a watch with all specifics from a smartwatch, then Apple watch or other models would be a better choice.

@SjoerdWess

3 жыл бұрын

Ram! Thanks so much for taking the time to write this reply. Couldnt have made it more detailed! Thanks a lot!

Very helpful, thanks! 🙌

@SjoerdWess

Жыл бұрын

Cheers!

Great review! I went with the VA4 because I wanted a more watch like device and the fitness tracking / being able to input weights and sets appealed to me

@SjoerdWess

3 жыл бұрын

I totally get that! It is a nice watch-like device with so many powerful features! I’m sure you’ll enjoy wearing yours!

Very aesthetic review! 👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼

@SjoerdWess

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers man!

Thanks for the review of VA4! Can you please tell the circumference of your wrist? I'm trying to decide between 4 and 4s. Right now I'm using VIvosmart HR and concerned with the size. Also how long the battery lasts for you these days?

@SjoerdWess

3 жыл бұрын

My wrists are quite bulky. Too much climbing😂. I just always prefer small watches so I’d go for the smaller one tbh

@SjoerdWess

3 жыл бұрын

The battery is around 4/5 days respectively

@sensovision

3 жыл бұрын

@@SjoerdWess oh well, I should have climb more I guess to have a freedom to select watches of any size :) mine is 165mm so I guess usual VA4 would be too big for me. Thx!

@sensovision

3 жыл бұрын

@@SjoerdWess 4 days seems to be short after using Amazfit Bip which can run for month on one charge but probably that's something I can live with in exchange for better metrics, thanks for your help!

@SjoerdWess

3 жыл бұрын

@@sensovision this one will run a bit longer when GPS is turned off.. but still, not for a crazy amount of days extra!

I like to wear my watches on my left wrist and so if I was to do press ups, would this watch dig into the back of my hand and would the buttons gets pressed as they are on the right side of the watch. Also I currently have a TomTom spark 3 and the heart rate tracker will generally work fine until I get rather sweaty while running. So how does the VIvioactive 4 stand up to sweat and a hairy wrist on the heart rate tracker?

@SjoerdWess

3 жыл бұрын

Wayne! The buttons wont get pressed that way. I never had any issue with any sweat. Im very hairy and most of all sweaty myself!

@waynegoodwin6777

3 жыл бұрын

@@SjoerdWess ok thanks for the info 🤘

I finnaly decided to buy Vivoactive 4 than 245 due to its body battery and stress tracking. Just have this watch for 3 days.

@SjoerdWess

3 жыл бұрын

Stoked for you mate!!!

One of THE finest review in KZread. Keep it up brother!!!!

@SjoerdWess

3 жыл бұрын

That means a LOT! Thanks a lot mate!

what is your wrist circumference? Is Vivoactive4 much big?

@SjoerdWess

Жыл бұрын

Vivo is small!

I have been using the vivosmart for some time and your review has conformed my thoughts. The vivoactive may have more functions, but this is a wearable and in that respect the vivosmart is the best. It is small, you don’t feel it at night. Thank you!

@SjoerdWess

2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear this man! Thanks a lot!

I have bought an Apple like nylon sport loop for my Vivoactive 4 because I had problems with the original strap as well. Can't recommend it enough...

@SjoerdWess

3 жыл бұрын

Good one! Ill look into it! :)

You deserve more subs. Eloquent + sound quality on point + video editing 💯

@SjoerdWess

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot mate!

I've got it for 150$ new yesterday...26.06.2022...seems like a great deal...it was sealed...I hope it's not from problematic lot or something!

Does It have trekking mode? or at least, does It save the tracking?

@SjoerdWess

2 жыл бұрын

It has GPS if that's what you mean?

Are you using the 4 or the 4s for this review?

@SjoerdWess

3 жыл бұрын

4s! I like the smaller one more

Hi Sjoerd. I'm writing to you from Scotland. Great video, thank you.! I was wondering if you could help me. I'm trying to decide for a smartwatch and I have almost decided for the Garmin Vivoactive 4 or Venu. I do a lot of walking, hiking, running and cycling. I'm currently using Strava and I'm putting/changing the title on my workouts depending on what I have been doing. If I'm hiking or walking alone I'll just call it walk or hike. If I'm having the dogs with me I'm calling it walk or hike with the dogs, and if I'm walking and fishing I'll call it fishing. The question is, can you have different profiles, names for different types of hike and walk on the Garmin Vivoactive 4 or Venu so I don't need to go into the Garmin Connect app and rename it? I can't even see that Hiking is mentioned in the activities supported in these two watches? The idea is that I would be able to choose "Walk with the dogs" in my activity list on the watch and just start the activity. In other words, have like tree different kind of walks or hikes I can choose from. Thank you Nikolai

@SjoerdWess

3 жыл бұрын

Nikolai, Thanks for watching the video! There are some ways to do this. Tho, I must say that I switched back to my old beloved Vivosmart 4 since I couldn't really get used to the size, so I can't verify this for you unfortunately. But, there is a way to create multiple profiles on your watch. Such as walk, walk 1, walk 2. Though, I'm not sure if you can actually change the name of that profile. Check out this video for more info: kzread.info/dash/bejne/oaKflcang8WdeJc.html I feel like you actually can rename the activities since to me this feels like a very basic feature. But, you never know... I did ask a friend, he is checking if you can rename activities, so i'll get back to you as soon as I hear from him! Thanks again!

@SjoerdWess

3 жыл бұрын

Okay, so he couldn't find a way to rename the activities in the watch itself. Though, he could fill in a lotttt of information about the activity inside the app. So there is a way to keep track of things, it just takes one more step!

@asiajerry100

3 жыл бұрын

@@SjoerdWess Thank you so much for taking your time to reply Sjoerd. It doesn't seem as easy as I thought it would be. Going a bit crazy researching all the smartwatches on the market and I probably have to continue for a little more before I'll manage to decide :)

@SjoerdWess

3 жыл бұрын

My suggestion to you is (considering you have the same kind of giant IT stores in Scotland), go to a IT store and try one on. Perhaps even buy one and return it if it doesn't live up to your expectations. That's the best and easy way. Spending 100s of hours on the web trying to find that one answer is a waste of time. Trust me, your dogs would like to you to just get one and try it out too ;-). Good luck man!

@asiajerry100

3 жыл бұрын

@@SjoerdWess Yes, you're right about that and I think my girlfriend would agree with you too. But from the little I have learned I think a Polar watch could be an option, you can customize a lot, but they have really boring watch faces.

How is this compared Iwatch 6?

@SjoerdWess

3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately I never owned an Iwatch!

Does this track your sleep really good tho !?

@SjoerdWess

2 жыл бұрын

It's okay!

Can you customise what is used battery wise? For example if I don't want music or GPS but do want heart and blood tracking can I set it so that it only uses the functions i want to maximise battery life?

@SjoerdWess

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! You can enable and disable these features!

@doyouthinkitsdead

3 жыл бұрын

@@SjoerdWess thankyou for the quick response! And for the informative video!

@SjoerdWess

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Thanks for checking it out

Lmao

@SjoerdWess

3 жыл бұрын

Rofl