The Vivosmart 5 is a fuss-free Garmin that gives you just the essentials, with a bigger screen that’s easier to read.
Garmin has unveiled a new budget-friendly fitness tracker, the Vivosmart 5, to help you keep track of your everyday activity if you’re not interested in investing in a fully-fledged running watch. The new fitness tracker is a successor to the Garmin Vivosmart 4, which landed in September 2019, and Garmin has chosen to focus on improving accessibility rather than loading up new fitness monitoring tools, and the Vivosmart 5’s main upgrade is a new, bigger touchscreen that should be much easier to read and operate. There’s also an upgraded heart rate sensor (with optional low and high heart rate alerts), plus advanced sleep tracking. Like its predecessor, the Vivosmart 5 has an SpO2 sensor to monitor blood oxygen saturation, all-day stress tracking (calculated using changes in heart rate variability), and a Body Battery score that allows you to see how much energy you have throughout the day and plan your time accordingly. The Vivosmart 5 offers a range of fitness tracking modes for both indoor and outdoor activities, though walkers, runners and cyclists should be aware that it doesn’t have its own GPS module.
