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Garmin has taken the wraps off its wrist-worn vivosmart HR touchscreen activity tracker, featuring heart rate monitoring and smart notifications, due to land in the local market in November.The vivosmart HR sports an always-on, sunlight-readable display, 24/7 heart rate monitoring, tracks steps, calories and distance, counts floors climbed and measures activity intensity, and, when paired with a compatible smartphone, allows users to receive texts, calls, email, calendar and social media alerts.
It reminds users when they’ve been sitting too long, learns their current activity level and creates a customised daily step goal, and users can also manually set floors climbed and activity intensity goals.
It also allows users to control the music on their smartphone and send a signal to help locate their smartphone when it has been misplaced, and can remote control a Garmin VIRB camera (sold separately).
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The vivosmart HR automatically syncs with the Garmin Connect mobile app for iPhone or Android, providing daily information and trends over time, and which can be linked to a MyFitnessPal account, automatically syncing calorie and nutritional information.
“This is the first activity tracker from Garmin with Elevate wrist heart rate technology that monitors your heart rate 24/7, offering more feedback on your daily activity, calories burned, workouts and sleep,” Matt DeMoss, Garmin Australasia general manager, commented.
“Thanks to the vivosmart HR’s always-on high-resolution display, you can review your progress against your fitness and stay connected with a full suite of smart notifications while you’re on the go.”
The vivosmart HR will be available in Australia in early-to-mid November in black, imperial purple and midnight blue for $229 RRP.
