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    Vivoactive 3
    The Garmin Vivoactive 3 is a smartwatch with a 1.2-inch touchscreen color LCD display, compatible with iOS and Android and includes step counting, sleep tracking, and calories burned.
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    Description
    The Garmin Vivoactive 3 is a smartwatch with a 1.2-inch touchscreen color LCD display, compatible with iOS and Android and includes step counting, sleep tracking, and calories burned.

    CR Expert Take

    How did it perform in our expert lab testing?

    What goes into the Overall Score?

    Ratings

    EXPERT LAB TESTS

    Ease of use
     /  5
    Versatility
     /  5
    Health
     /  5
    Step-count performance
     /  5
    Heart-rate performance
     /  5
    Scratch test
     /  5
    Water resistance test
     /  5
    Ease of interaction
     /  5
    Readability in bright light
     /  5
    Readability in low light
     /  5
    Ease of pairing
     /  5
    Heart-rate monitor accuracy
     /  5
    Step count accuracy
     /  5
    Color
     /  5

    Detailed Test Results

    Overall this model was somewhat easy to use, somewhat accurate for counting steps, and very good at measuring heart-rate accuracy. With recent version smartphones, our experts found it very easy to pair, somewhat easy to interact with, and very easy to connect to charger. The watch face was very good in our scratch resistance hardness test. In our water immersion test it passed the manufacturer's claim of 164 feet for 10 minutes.

    About

    The Garmin Vivoactive 3 is a smartwatch compatible with iOS and Android and includes real-time heart rate monitor, steps, sleep, and calories. It has a touchscreen display with 240 x 240 screen resolution. Has always-on display capability. It has phone notifications, and vibration alerts. It includes inactivity alerts that remind you to move if you are sitting for a long time. It has a find my phone and find my watch feature and can control playback of music stored on your smartphone. It can accept phone calls on the watch, and dismiss phone calls from the watch. Has WiFi, GPS and NFC. The manufacturer offers changeable straps. It has weather at-wrist feature. The Vivoactive 3 can control VIRB compatible action cameras, use optional Bicycle Speed/Cadence sensor, optional ANT+ sensors, Foot Pod sensor which records pace and distance during indoor running or treadmill training when GPS is unavailable, Garmin Pay, and Quick release bands. It has multi-sport tracking features: running, strength training, cardio training, elliptical training, stair stepping, floor climbing, Indoor rowing, yoga, golf, skiing, snowboarding, XC Skiing, paddle boarding, rowing, cycling, indoor biking, swimming, pool swimming metrics: lengths, distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories, swimming stroke type detection for (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly), and swim efficiency (SWOLF). Its dimensions are 1.9 x 1.8 x 0.5 inches (LxWxD) and it weighs 1.4 ounces.

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