Garmin vívoactive 6 GPS 42mm Smartwatch, AMOLED Touchscreen, All-day Health Monitoring, Personalised Fitness Features, Advanced Sleep Coaching, Music, up to 11 days battery life, Jasper Green

Great watch, easy to use I particularly like the sleep tracking and body battery functions, as well as tracking my swimming.

Overall, it is a good watch and a fitness & wellness tracker. It is comfortable to wear, and it has a fine battery life by default but if you want to track everything, it won't last too long. Both sleep and steps monitors are not quite accurate unfortunately, but I think they can still be helpful to determine how you are doing. I recommend this watch to anyone.

Present for my husband. He is delighted with the watch, especially the battery life .... lasted over a week. He's still getting used to the settings and finding his way around the functions. So easy to set up.

The watch is overall good but the battery is not lasting as what mentioned in the post.

Having used the Vivoactive 4 for three years and many other Garmin devices over the years, seeing the multi-day battery life of these newer units tipped me over the edge to purchase one for myself for Christmas. But I also bought another for my dad to replace his Fitbit thing on which the OLED screen was "burned in". I'm not going to run through all the features of these but for me they are the correct size, 42mm diameter, vs 45mm for the V4. I've never treated my V4 with "kid gloves" and it survived with just a few scratches. The only functionality drop is the loss of the barometer and therefore "stairs climbed" statistic. But if I want to measure relative heights I can use my phone for that. I think these Vivoactive range of devices offer a great mix of features at a good price.

Perfect! A great watch for tracking all i need when running or working out! The battery life is fantastic and I rarely need to think about charging it!

Simply impressive! I have owned three Apple Watch models over the past 9 years and although I found no problem with iOS, the main problem with Apple was the battery life. I’d leave the house with 100% battery and put back on charge before I went to bed because it wouldn’t last the full 24 hours. I finally decided to switch to Garmin vivoactive 6. The main reason was the battery life and the round face. The square face was always a thing I hated about Apple Watches. I have now had this Garmin watch for exactly 7 days. I have had this watch on for 7 days and nights straight without taking it off. I charged it to 100% when I received it and 7 days later it is still showing 2 days of battery remaining or 17%. I have not charged it since the first time. I am simply mind blown at the battery life. It will easily last a full week even with heavy usage. Another thing is how lightweight it is compared with the Apple watched. The last model I had was 40mm (small) size and it weighed a noticeable amount more than this Garmin vivoactive 6. I’m very impressed and very happy with it. At £255 it is a great price and highly recommend it.

Great all round smart watch does everything you want with a much better quality than others like Fitbit

This is my first Garmin. I was a FitBit user and had four of them in 10 years. Last one was a Charge 6, which I loved, but I noticed the lifespan getting shorter with each device, and finally decided to ditch FitBit since it's become a google product. My first thought was to go to Apple Watch since I have an iPhone and other Apple devices. But after doing some research and seeing Vivoactive 6's battery life, price, and all the fitness tracking features that are important to me (as someone getting back into running in my 50s and also an avid hiker, walker, and occasional elliptical user), it seemed like a great choice. And it is! I've been wearing and using this watch 24/7 (except showering) for 3 weeks and love it. It's an awesome upgrade from the FitBit. It does all that my FitBit did and SO much more. It did take some time for me to figure out all the functions and settings, but I took my time and learned a few each day. During that process I found out how customizable this watch's screen and menus are - from color choices, to adding and removing features (you can just as easily get them back if you change your mind), to which features/menus you like to have readily accessible. You can even arrange them in the order you like best. On top of all the useful fitness stats and sensors (too many to list individually!), it shows the weather (current conditions, and forecast), has an old-school calculator (remember the calculator watches of the 80s?? me ✋🏼🤓), a nifty flashlight function with 3 levels of brightness, and my personal favorite - the compass, which doesn't need to be calibrated. It's accurate, and works independent of your phone. Very handy to have when I'm hiking. I wish it had an altimeter (available on some of Garmin's higher level smartwatches), but at this price point I do realize I can't have everything. There are many other functions with this watch - these are just the ones I find pretty useful to have, literally, on hand. For reference my wrist circumference is 6 inches. Highly recommend this watch if you want a quality and functional smartwatch where the emphasis is on fitness/health/workout tracking and stats, at a reasonable price.

Just what we need for sleep and activity

Die Uhr ist sehr schön. Das Armband ist etwas klobig und sitzt an meinem Arm nicht richtig, aber das ist kein Problem. Die Uhr hat viele Funktionen im Bereich Aktivitäten und Sport. Ich kann auch meine Blutzuckerwerte auf dem Display anzeigen lassen. Man kann gefühlt alles personalisieren, was ich sehr gut finde. Leider sind aber viele bereitgestellte Ziffernblätter kostenpflichtig. Durch verschiedene Apps, die man in der garmin App herunterladen kann, kann man auch z. B. Google maps, Spotify, etc. herunterladen, was die Uhr auch ideal im Alltag macht. Die Farbe des Rahmens ist rosegold, was ich sehr dezent und hübsch finde. Das Armband passt sehr gut dazu. Was ich allerdings nicht so gut finde ist das Ladegerät. Ich hatte keinen USB-C Stecker (aber das ist mein Problem). Das ladekabel muss man hinten an der Uhr anschließen und muss die Uhr beim Laden dann auf die Seite oder auf das Display legen. Ich hätte mir eine magnetische Ladelösung bei Apple gewünscht, bei der man die Uhr einfach auf die station legt. Das wäre deutlich komfortabler. Dafür hält der Akku bis zu 11 Tage, was wirklich außergewöhnlich ist. So kann ich über längere Zeit auch meinen Schlaf auswerten lassen. Ich mag auch das Feature mit der Body Battery, die mir fast jeden Tag erzählt, dass ich einen anstrengenden Tag hatte und mich ausruhen soll. Auch die regelmäßigen Erinnerungen zur Bewegung sind super und schlagen auch kurze 30 Sekunden Übungen vor.

Excelente producto

Possedevo già un Vivoactive 3, che dopo 6 anni di onorato servizio comincia ad avere qualche acciacco. Mi sono orientato verso il suo successore per avere continuità. Devo dire che il Vivoactive 6 è uno smartwatch completo, adatto anche a chi fa sport o attività all'aperto non estrema (rimane comunque un prodotto più fragile dei corrispondenti orologi sportivi e adventure). Moltissime funzionalità utili, dalla gestione chiamate (attenzione non ha audio, dovrete comunque usare lo smartphone), ai messaggi a cui ora di può rispondere anche in modo personalizzato con la tastiera a schermo (non comodissima date le ridotte dimensioni). Tantissime funzioni per il monitoraggio delle attività, del sonno, dello stress, comodo anche il promemoria di movimento (nel Vivoactive 3 un semplice "muoviti", ora una proposta di brevi attività sempre diverse da fare anche mentre si lavora per sgranchirsi un po'). Il display, nettamente superiore alla versione in mio possesso, consente di vedere più informazioni nelle varie app. La durata batteria mi sembra buona, io non amo dover muovere il braccio per attivare il display (devo dire che non è molto reattivo), quindi preferisco il display always on: riduce comunque la luminosità per risparmiare, inoltre di notte usa una quadrante semplificato ma comunque leggibile. Unica nota negativa: ha un numero limitato di quadranti di serie, non mi sono piaciuti molto, l'unica alternativa è andare sullo store tramite ConnectIQ e scegliere un quadrante personalizzato, ma praticamente tutti quelli funzionali ed esteticamente gradevoli sono a pagamento.