Garmin VivoSmart HR+ GPS Activity Tracker Reviews

Review score: 9.0/10 – Updated September, 2024

Latest Price: £152.99 – Save 24% (RRP: £199.99)

Take a look now to discover what makes Garmin VivoSmart HR+ GPS Activity Tracker worthy of a review score of 9.0 out of 10.

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• Brand – Garmin
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Garmin VivoSmart HR+ GPS Activity Tracker features

Quality

Quality is without doubt one of the most important factors that we consider when buying bikes, parts, accessories or clothing. As you’d imagine it’s especially important when buying Heart Rate Monitors. Let’s take at a look at the sort of things you can look at when trying to ascertain the quality of Garmin VivoSmart HR+ GPS Activity Tracker.

The first thing is material. Looking at what Garmin VivoSmart HR+ GPS Activity Tracker is made of will give you a really good idea of the quality overall. Take a look at the specs above and you should be able to see the material. It’s then up to you to decide if it meets your expectation.

Similarly you’ll also want to spend some time looking at the features too. Again the table above, listing the features will give you a really good overview. However you should think about the sort of features that you’d expect when buying new Heart Rate Monitors. It’s worth writing a list of the “must-have” features so that you don’t end up compromising and missing some important features, or alternatively end up buying an unnecessarily high specced product.

There’s also a lot of merit in checking out the brand of the product and looking at the various brands that are selling Heart Rate Monitors. Brands like Garmin are of courses extremely well respected in the cycling community so you know you’re getting a fantastic product with them. But if you’re undecided on your product you should write up a list of brands that you’d be happy to buy. It’s a great way of filtering and narrowing down the number of products when you’re searching.

Next up you’ll want to think about the price and use that as a guide to set your expectations of the quality. If you’re buying the cheapest of the options in the Heart Rate Monitors category you should probably expect it to not be of as good quality as the most expensive. It sounds obvious of course. But this is where you can get a bit clever and use your combination of features, specs, materials and other factors to work together to get a really good quality product at the best price. We often draw up a list of “must-haves” and use these as filters when shopping online so that you’re only seeing products that meet your criteria. You can then sort by Price>Low to get the best deals.

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Comparing Prices

Price, as you would imagine, is the most popular reason for someone buying one product over another. It is the single most important factor in choosing the majority of products we buy. The same goes for Heart Rate Monitors.

It’s at this stage of the buying process, when you’re looking at different options, that you should set a budget. Do some research to understand how much roughly you can expect to pay for the sort of level of product that you’re looking for. Then match that to your own personal circumstance and how much you can afford to spend. This will really help you in narrowing down the right product for you.

Price of Garmin VivoSmart HR+ GPS Activity Tracker

So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of Garmin VivoSmart HR+ GPS Activity Tracker.

We run regular scans across the web to find the best prices for the products that we review, from a range of cycling retailers. The best price we managed to find Garmin VivoSmart HR+ GPS Activity Tracker was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £152.99 in our latest search.

Based on this price we’ve scored it 9.2 out of 10 for price.

Average price of Heart Rate Monitors

Next we wanted to look at how much you can expect to pay, on average, for Heart Rate Monitors.

We found 28 in the Heart Rate Monitors category over at Chain Reaction Cycles. We looked at the average price of the products within this category and found the average is £59.68, making it above average at £152.99.

It’s sometimes helpful to look at how much the prices can vary. Especially when setting yourself a budget, or when trying to understand just how much you could spend on Heart Rate Monitors. We found that the most expensive product currently available was £152.99, whilst the cheapest we managed to find was £9.00.

With 28 products available we worked out that 0 cost more than Garmin VivoSmart HR+ GPS Activity Tracker and 27 were cheaper.

Cost of Garmin products

At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 91 products from Garmin, of which 6 were in the Heart Rate Monitors category.

For now though we’re looking at Garmin branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £227.73 making this product below average.

You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest Garmin product we found was £8.89 and the highest price we could find from them was £849.99.

Of the 91 from Garmin, 50 were more expensive than Garmin VivoSmart HR+ GPS Activity Tracker and 40 were cheaper.

How much are Garmin Heart Rate Monitors?

We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at Garmin products that are listed in the Heart Rate Monitors category.

The average price of the 6 products that match this search was £91.23, with the cheapest coming in at £45.99 and highest price was £152.99. With the average being £91.23, Garmin VivoSmart HR+ GPS Activity Tracker comes in above average.

0 products that meet this search were more expensive than Garmin VivoSmart HR+ GPS Activity Tracker and 5 were cheaper.

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Garmin VivoSmart HR+ GPS Activity Tracker Reviews

Reading reviews is an amazing way of getting a good feel for a product without actually being able to try it or see it first.

There are two different types of reviews, and we also recommend reading both.

1. Expert reviews – In the cycle industry there are loads of really reliable trusted resources for expert reviews. For example if you’re looking to buy a new bike, BikeRadar Bike Reviews are great.

2. Customer reviews – these are probably your best resource for information. There’s no finances or influence involved, they’re purely just honest reviews from customers that have bought and used the product. The reason we love customer reviews so much is because no matter if their view is good or bad, there’s a very good chance that it will be honest and unbiased.

Our best advice is to head over to Chain Reaction Cycles and read the Garmin VivoSmart HR+ GPS Activity Tracker reviews there.

Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for Garmin VivoSmart HR+ GPS Activity Tracker, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 9.6 out of 10. The average review score for all products in the Heart Rate Monitors category at Chain Reaction Cycles is 4.2 out of 5.

Owner reviews, as we say, are one of the most important pieces of research that we can do before we buy. So, with that in mind, if you do go on to buy Garmin VivoSmart HR+ GPS Activity Tracker or another similar product, like Garmin HRM Run reviews or Garmin Index Smart Scales reviews we’d love you to leave a review in the comments below. It will really help future buyers just like you, when they’re looking to buy Heart Rate Monitors.

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Brand

As we said in the pricing part of the review, brand is a really important consideration, but especially so when looking to buy Heart Rate Monitors. But as you’re probably already aware, you’re on to a great choice if you do go with Garmin, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.

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YouTube Video of Garmin VivoSmart HR+ GPS Activity Tracker

Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for Garmin VivoSmart HR+ GPS Activity Tracker reviews.

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Summary

Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of Garmin VivoSmart HR+ GPS Activity Tracker. We’d say that as long as it fits your budget and meets your expectations in terms of features/spec…it’s a really strong contender. That’s why we’ve scored it a massive 9.0/10 overall.

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Further product details

• Product ID 1: 25010855831
• Product ID 2: 655953UK
• Brand: Garmin
• Model number: 010-01955-33
• RRP: £199.99
• EAN: 753759149055
• Description: Garmin VivoSmart HR+ GPS Activity TrackerThe V√≠vosmart HR+ activity tracker uses Elevate wrist heart rate technology to monitor heart rate at the wrist 24/7. That gives you the freedom to work out however you want, with no additional heart rate strap needed. Using heart rate, V√≠vosmart HR+ provides calories burned information.Whether you’re going for a jog, playing a pick-up game with friends or trying out a new boot camp class, it quantifies the intensity of your fitness activities using intensity minutes.Take Your Activity to the Gym or the TrailsV√≠vosmart HR+ smart activity tracker¬≤ is able to track distance, time and pace for indoors or outdoors activities. With GPS, you can get more accurate and pace stats as well as a map of your activity when running or walking outdoors. In addition to tracking your runs, steps and calories, V√≠vosmart HR+ measures floors climbed and intensity minutes.Features:TouchScreenBacklit DisplayVibration AlertsMusic Player ControlsWireless Auto SyncGPS EnabledCompatible with Virb (Sold Separately)Garmin Move IQ Motion DetectorRechargeable BatteryUp to 5 Days battery Life Without GPS/ 9hrs using GPSWeight: 31gBuy¬†Garmin Training from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
• Full Category: Nutrition & Training > Heart Rate Monitors
• Savings percentage from RRP: 24%
• Size: X-Large
• Unisex
• 47
• Adult

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Other options for Heart Rate Monitors

As you’d imagine there are so many options out there when buying Heart Rate Monitors. 28 in fact.

A few of our other favourites that we spotted when researching Garmin VivoSmart HR+ GPS Activity Tracker included,
Garmin HRM-Swim Heart Rate Monitor 2016 reviews, Garmin HRM-DUAL Heart Rate Monitor 2019 reviews, or we really liked the look of Garmin Vector 3 Pedal Power Meter reviews as another alternative.