hi everyone Abby here and welcome back to my channel or welcome if you're new today
i'm going to be reviewing the new garmin vivosmart 5. but before i get started make
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and so you can help the channel grow so i have this watch in the color cool mint guys
but it does come in some other great colors which you could see on screen
and the current prices as of recording are 199.99 Canadian or 149.99 American
and i have this watch in the size small medium but it also comes in a size large
all right guys so this is what it looks like on me so as you guys can see i do come up to the six
hole from the bottom here once again this is the size small medium so if you are someone who does
have a larger wrist they do have it in size large and i have the corresponding wrist sizes that
these could fit on screen for you guys or right here for anybody interested in that information
the band here is actually the same size as the one on the vivoactive forest and on the garmin venu 2s
and it's definitely lightweight and comfortable to wear and one thing about the band is that if you
wanted to you can swap it out and buy a different color because you can just basically pop this guy
out so to do that you're just going to basically you know push it out with your fingers and then
you can go ahead and you know switch this up if you want to and you can find um you know pretty
affordable bands on amazon or you can go ahead and get the oem ones from garmin all right guys so now
i'm going to go into the major highlights about this swatch so it has a oled monochrome display an
acrylic lens has touchscreen operation a battery life up to seven days is a smartwatch it has an
18 millimeter silicone band it has bluetooth an amt+ built in as well as timer stopwatch it's
water resistant up to 5 atm or 50 meters so it can be used to swim go in the rain in the shower
stuff like that you can see your smartphone notifications get step reminders body battery
it tracks your pulse ox your sleep your stress it has relaxation breathing and relaxation reminders
24 hour heart rate tracking it can track a variety of metrics like distance and calories burned it
has women's health monitoring it tracks a variety of activities like running swimming and yoga
it has connected gps which piggybacks off your phone's gps for your outdoor activities so if
i was going to do an outdoor activity like biking for example it's going to wait till it's connected
to my phone's gps so you can get your gps data and root tracked accurately here and more now this is
not all of the features on this tracker but these are definitely some of the most important i think
so this watch has a oled display i actually do find this pretty easy to read indoors and outdoors
so right now you're seeing it indoors under some lighting and it is a little bit reflective guys
so right now i have the brightness set to auto and this is what it looks like here but if you wanted
to have it brighter or dimmer you can change it and it goes from one to seven here so one two
three four five six and seven which is pretty bright guys one thing i do want
to let you guys know is that if you do have the brightness higher your battery life is going to
you know drain faster alright guys so this is what the display looks like outdoors in the
sunlight natural lighting and i personally do find it pretty easy to read outdoors
once again i do have it set to auto brightness so if you are outside
and you have your brightness a bit lower you might need to pump it up a bit so you can read it easily
to get to your sleep tracking you just press the button and then i'm
going to swipe up and see basically my metrics here until i get to sleep
so here's my sleep from last night guys and as you could see i slept for 8.2 hours and i have a
sleep score of 82 percent and it also says i slept good so this is a good amount of sleep information
just right off the bat here and then if you click on it you can see your time awake your
time in light sleep deep sleep and rem sleep and then if you go onto the garmin connect app guys
you can see a little graph that corresponds to how you slept so i honestly think the
sleep tracking here is pretty good better than some i've seen in the past i think garmin is
still a little bit off when it does come to sleep tracking i think that's like the only
weak point they have that they need to work on but when i do compare it to you know one
of my fitbits like the fitbit lux here i did find the sleep tracking pretty accurate guys
so this watch has a quoted battery life up to seven days as a smart watch and with my uses
which i have on screen for you guys things like walks runs daily alarms cardio workouts
and more i have gotten five days of battery life with this tracker so i think that's pretty good
guys only to charge this thing once a week so i think this could fit really well into a lot
of people's lifestyles especially people who do not want to charge something every single day
so i do find a little bit time consuming to get to some areas of the watch but i will
say that this is not the easiest watch to use not the hardest i kind of find it in the middle
you know it is mostly touch screen operated so you kind of have to swipe in different directions
to get to what you want and click on things to see bigger views in addition to that if you have
any notifications come in they will just pop up on the screen i'll show you guys a quick
notification right now for anybody wondering what that does look like all right guys i have
a text coming in shows you the sender then you just click on it and you can scroll up to read
if you want to reply click on that and then you can go ahead and select a response
and if you click any of these responses like if you say thanks just go ahead and click the check
mark and it will send that for you something i don't like about it is that it doesn't really have
a shortcut menu like a lot of other watches if you swipe one way or another you can see
shortcuts but you don't really have that here and sometimes it can take long time to get to
a certain thing like if you wanted to get to water tracking i can't just go and like press
the button to do that i have to go ahead and swipe a bunch of times to actually get to it
alright guys so now i'm going to go into women's health so if you are a male you don't want to see
this you can use time stamps skip to the next section but for all my ladies out there this
watch does come with a built-in women's health tracking app so to get to that you're just going
to swipe up until you find it here it is this has your cycle data and then you can click on
it and you can log any symptoms that you have and you could say if your period has started if your
watch hasn't picked that up so you can go ahead and click on edit and then you can add any of the
physical symptoms that you are feeling if you feel any of these you know just go ahead and click it
and then you can also track your mood
your sex drive information and that's it guys
so you do have a good amount of information you know available at your fingertips here
but if you do want to go into the app you will have a more advanced view and you could see
your period prediction there as well so something i do like about this watch is that it does have
vibration alarms and they work really well it's a nice gentle vibration to wake you up in the
morning and something else i like about this watch is step reminders so the step reminder messages
are nice you know it gives you a nice message to get moving and it uses your name which i like you
don't really see that on the smart watches like something pops up and it will just like say move
i've had this for almost a month now i found the durability is holding up really nicely
so just looking at my display here guys i don't think i have any noticeable scratches on here
now this is made of an acrylic material the lens here but i'm finding it pretty good like i wear
you know constantly and do my daily errands and sometimes you know you bang your arms into
walls or you know things happen but it is looking good so far guys i'm happy with the durability
and the band so far is holding up very nicely and it does have that
nice pattern that we have seen on various garmin watches in the past
so coming over to the heart rate sensor here at the bottom guys it is a very smooth and when it is
on you honestly don't really feel the bump here at all it kind of just is level with your skin
so i really like it here it's comfortable and i am finding the heart rate to be pretty accurate
for your watch faces we are limited to what is on the watch here we cannot download more
from the garmin connect iq app so i'll just show you guys all the watch faces here
there's definitely some nice options
all right guys so considering the price the quality the color the battery life the accuracy
the durability the comfort and everything like that i would go ahead and give this
a 7.9 out of 10. and i definitely do give it a thumbs up so if you guys are looking to get
the garmin vivosmart 5 i've gone ahead and left a link down in the description for you to use
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