Garmin vivoactive 5

Garmin vivoactive 5

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The Garmin Vivoactive 5 features a 1.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen with a resolution of 390 by 390 pixels, a big step up from the Vivoactive 4’s 260-by-260-pixel screen. Colors and images are vibrant on the Vivoactive 5’s display in a variety of lighting conditions, and the touch screen seamlessly responds to input. You can set the screen to always be on or to illuminate automatically when you raise your wrist.

An anodized aluminum bezel surrounds the Vivoactive 5’s display instead of stainless steel, a change that may disappoint fans of the line. The case is made of fiber-reinforced polymer, and the band is silicone.

Design and Weight

It weighs 1.3 ounces (36 grams) for the body and strap, or 0.8 ounces (23 grams) without the band. It strangely only comes in one 42mm size whereas the Vivoactive 4 has 45mm and 40mm options (the latter is called the Vivoactive 4S, but it’s essentially the same aside from size-related specs). At 1.66 by 1.66 by 0.44 inches (HWD), it’s smaller all around than the Vivoactive 4, which has a slightly larger display at 1.3 inches (or 1.1 inches for the 4S).

Tracking and Activities

The Vivoactive 5 offers a heap of holistic health-tracking capabilities in addition to smartwatch features like notification support for both Android and iOS phones (though you can only respond to notifications from the watch on Android), Garmin Pay, safety tracking with live location sharing, and downloadable music from Amazon Music, Deezer, or Spotify.

Like the previous generation, this model has an accelerometer, a compass, a GPS with GLONASS and Galileo satellite systems, a heart rate monitor, and a pulse oximeter that gauges blood oxygen saturation (SpO2). It tracks your calories burned, distance traveled, intensity minutes, menstruation cycles, respiration, sleep, steps, stress level, and more.

Battery life

In terms of battery life, the Garmin Vivoactive 5 touts 11 days of power on a charge depending on usage. In practice, with roughly two to three workouts per week with the battery-draining GPS turned on, I averaged around eight days of use between charges.

Setting Up and Navigating the Vivoactive 5

Setting up the Vivoactive 5 is simple: I plugged it in, logged into the Garmin Connect app (available for Android and iOS), paired my phone to the watch via Bluetooth, then followed the prompts on the watch. I found all of the options to download music apps, assign emergency contacts, activate Garmin Pay, initiate a coaching program, and browse possible watch faces overwhelming at first. I skipped a handful of optional steps, such as setting up a safety contact, and finished the initial setup in a few minutes. Rest assured that you can always go back later and set up any features you initially skipped.

Once up and running, you control the watch through the touch screen and the two buttons on the right side of the case. The top button pulls up a list of activities if you want to start a workout. A separate tab atop this screen opens the apps tab, giving you access to things like a flashlight, music, a stopwatch, or your digital wallet. Both the activity and app lists are customizable.

Using the Vivoactive 5

It counts stressful moments toward its Body Battery metric, which also takes into account your workout frequency, quality of sleep, and restful periods during the day to help you monitor your energy level over time on a percentage scale. The Body Battery stat ties into the Vivoactive 5’s advanced sleep coaching as well. If I was tired, the sleep coach would prompt me to get more shut-eye. After a rough night of sleep, the watch told me to aim for nine hours, a significantly longer duration than my calculated average of seven hours and fifty minutes.

This coaching, of course, also comes from the watch’s advanced sleep-measuring capabilities. By calculating heart rate variability, blood oxygen levels, and respiration, the Vivoactive 5 consistently measured the amount, depth, and quality of my sleep with great accuracy compared with my anecdotal sleep assessment.