Features

Overview: The Garmin vívosmart 4 is a water-resistant smart activity tracker with a built-in heart rate monitor that helps you reach your personalized daily fitness goals. The slender, lightweight device is worn on the wrist, and has a 0.26" x 0.7" (48 x 128 pixels) touchscreen display. On the display, you can view your steps, calories burned, distances traveled, heart rate, floors climbed, reps completed, and activity intensity. vívosmart 4 also alerts you when it's time to move, or when you receive an email, text, a call on your smartphone, or a social media alert. It can even monitor your sleep. This vívosmart 4 weighs just 0.58 ounces, and has an adjustable wrist band that fits small-to-medium wrist circumferences of between 4.8" to 7.4". A large-sized version (in black only) is also available for those with a wrist circumference of 5.8" to 8.5".

Elevate: The vívosmart 4 is equipped with Elevate wrist-based heart rate technology. A Pulse Ox sensor, located on the bottom of the activity tracker, continuously measures your heart rate and blood oxygen saturation levels at the wrist. There is no need to wear a separate heart rate strap. The vívosmart 4 can broadcast your heart rate (in beats per minute) to other compatible Garmin devices, such an Edge cycling device or VIRB action camera.

Body Battery: The device can gauge your body's energy reserves at any moment. Your Body Battery reading is calculated using a combination of stress, heart rate variability, sleep, and activity data. Knowing your energy reserve level helps you to know when it's best to be active, and when you should rest. The Body Energy reading is expressed numerically between 0 and 100, with a trending arrow indicating if your energy reserve is increasing, decreasing, or holding steady.

Garmin Connect: The vívosmart 4 has built-in Bluetooth Smart technology so you can automatically pair it to your smartphone or mobile device. With the Garmin Connect app on your smartphone or computer, you can keep track of your activities, your daily goals, the calories you've burned, and help motivate you to keep active. You can also share your activities and goals with your friends on social media. The vívosmart 4 settings are configured on Garmin Connect, including Time Format (12-hour or 24-hour), Measurement Units (miles or kilometers), Visible Screens, and Auto Goal. Garmin Connect for your home computer is compatible with Windows 7 SP1 and newer and Mac OS X v10.11 or later. Garmin Connect Mobile works with Bluetooth 4.0-enabled devices running Android 4.0 or higher, or iOS 9.0 and above.

Widgets: The Garmin vívosmart 4's on-screen widgets provide feedback on many activities. You can keep track of your activity level throughout the day and view the results on the screen at any time. Additional sensors, such as a bike speed sensor, can be paired to the device. You can swipe the touchscreen display left or right to scroll through the widgets. Some of the activities and display screens include:

• Time/Date: Displays the current time, day, and date (can be set manually, or automatically when it syncs up to your mobile device)
• Steps: Provides a count of the steps you take, and you daily step goal. As you progress, the device will propose a new step goal each day.
• Floors: Similar to the Steps widget, the device keeps track of the number of floors climbed and your goal for the day.
• Intensity Minutes: The vívosmart 4 counts the number of minutes spent in vigorous activity, plus your goal for the week.
• Calories Burned: Keeps track of the number of total calories burned for the day, including active and resting calories.
• Distance: Keeps track of the total distance traveled for the day, expressed in miles or kilometers.
• VIRB: Remote controls for a paired VIRB action camera.
• Heart Rate: Shows your current heart rate and 7-day average resting heart rate in beats per minute (BPM).
• Music Controls: Music controls for the music player on a paired mobile device.
• Temperature/Weather: Displays the current temperature and weather forecast. Requires connection to a smartphone.
• Notifications: You receive notification of new texts, emails, social network updates, and phone calls received from the paired mobile device. The notifications include visual alerts, as well as vibrations.
• Message: A custom message that you create on the Garmin Connect Mobile app appears in the display.
• Stress Level: Displays your current stress level, based on your heart rate variability while you are inactive. The lower the number, the lower your stress level.
• Body Battery: Displays your current Body Battery energy reserve, based on sleep, stress, and activity data. The higher number indicates a higher energy reserve.

Advanced Sleep Monitoring: The vívosmart 4 can help you analyze your sleep, by monitoring your movement, heart rate, and blood oxygen levels. The device tracks your light, deep, and REM stages of sleep, and allows you to view your sleep stats in the Garmin Connect mobile app.

Stress Tracking: The device can analyze your heart rate variability while you are inactive to determine your overall stress. Your stress level is expressed within a range of 0 to 100: 0-25 resting state, 26-50 low stress, 51-75 medium stress, and 76-100 high stress. When stress levels are high, you can use the relaxation-based breathing timer (a 1 to 5 minute breathing exercise) on the stress widget to help lower your stress level. Syncing your device to your Garmin Connect account lets you see your stress level throughout the day, stress trends, and which parts of the day are the most stressful. For best results, you should wear the device while sleeping.

Move IQ: The vívosmart 4's Move IQ feature automatically detects activity patterns, such as biking, swimming, walking, or running, for at least 10 minutes. This eliminates the need to start or stop the activity timer each time you begin a new activity. You can view the event type and duration on the Garmin Connect timeline, but they do not appear in your activities list, snapshots, or newsfeed.

History: The device can store up to 14 days of activity data (daily steps, calories burned, sleep statistics), heart rate monitoring data, and up to 7 timed activities. Data storage capability depends upon how often you upload the data to your computer.

Water Resistance: The vívosmart 4 is designed with a high water resistance rating, allowing you to wear the device in the rain and wet weather, as well as in the shower or while swimming.

Battery: The vívosmart 4 is powered by a built-in rechargeable Lithium-Polymer battery with a battery life of up to 7 days, excluding pulse ox sleep tracking. A 22" charging/data cable is included with the device.