Pros: Still does everything I want it to. Has great battery life still. Pretty accurate for a wrist measure, when measuring heart rate. Also has built in GPS, and even Garmin Pay although I never got it to work. Screen is perfectly visible in sunlight
Cons: Proprietary charger. I’ve had to switch the watch band 2 times.
I have a forerunner 255 for a couple of years and it has been great.
I wish they had wireless charging, but I also appreciate that it is slimmer because they don’t have it.
I would have gotten a nicer one, but holy cow they get expensive.
It does everything I need and even stores music for my runs. (Who am I lying to, it stores music for my walks.)
I have a Garmin BP cuff and I like that I can track my health stats, including sleeping
I’ve had my vivoactive 3 for 6 years and the only problem is the battery. When new it would last a week as a normal watch a solid 12 hours when GPS tracking.
Now its at best 36hrs between charges. About 1hr if i tried to GPS track with it.
When I look up replacement batteries not a single one has a good review.
I wish Garmin would stop advertising their paid services and products several places in the GarminConnect app.
I am about fan of Garmin and its products, I only wished that they had a program to replace batteries.
This is probably why I won’t go back to them. The fact that, from what I’ve seen, you just get an offer on a discounted refurb in lieu of a battery change. Either that or told to purchase a new one if the battery fails just outside of warranty, which didn’t seem rare for my watch. Given how many iterations there have been of these watches seems by design.
