Review on 🏋️ Garmin Vivofit 4 Black: Advanced Smart Bracelet for Enhanced Fitness Tracking by Bi i Dng (MC) ᠌

Name: 🏋️ Garmin Vivofit 4 Black: Advanced Smart Bracelet for Enhanced Fitness Tracking
Item: 🏋️ Garmin Vivofit 4 Black: Advanced Smart Bracelet for Enhanced Fitness Tracking
Rating: 1

April 12, 2023

Nightmarish quality and complete inconsistency with the description.

I was just looking for a watch that measures steps and distance. I do not need, neither synchronization nor smart functions. That's why I paid so much money for this bracelet. And I basically liked him.
After discovering the clock lag when the backlight was turned on, I decided to give them a chance and not take it under warranty. I tried to write about this to Garmin in the hope that this bug will be corrected.
Websites are a mess. Feedback is hard to find. As a result, I wrote to the forum, where I was safely banned after I described the problem. It was not without difficulty that I found 2022-speaking support. At first they referred to the fact that they do not have such problems, change to another. Went. Having gone through several other instances, I found exactly the same problem.
It's not hard to find her. Just start the stopwatch and turn on the backlight 4 times in the first 20 seconds. Next, you watch. At about a minute, the stopwatch will either freeze for 6 seconds or jump back 6 seconds.
Wrote about it. They said okay, wait. And since then, silence.
And today I pulled the watch out of the strap to wash it, and during the wash I felt that the case was walking. I looked, and there are cracks. Also, water got in because of this. The cracks are exactly on the side from which the hand lies on the table. I don’t have a wide wrist and it turns out that when the hand is on the table, the edge of the watch capsule is in one way or another in contact with the table. And since there is very thin plastic and two metal screws, in the end, the plastic cracked. Thus, if you do not have a wide wrist, buying this watch is contraindicated. And if it is wide, then you are unlikely to buy a bracelet.
In short, it was necessary to immediately hand over the warranty.
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Pros

1. No need to charge. 2. Always on screen. 3. Bluetooth is not always on. Accordingly, it does not broadcast around the clock on the air. 4. Comfortable soft strap. 5. Compact. 6. Convenient exercise function. Shows how much time has passed since the start of the workout, how many steps have been taken, what distance, how many calories. It is very convenient and interesting to measure the distance and time from point A to point B, especially in a big city. But the function is of little use due to the clock bug (see disadvantages). 7. I really liked the filling low activity warning bar. With such an implementation, it really motivates you to get up and walk around. The more it is filled, the more you need to walk.

Cons

1. Weak, not well thought out design. After 4 months, the plastic around the screws burst (see photo). With normal everyday wear without any sport. 2. Inaccurate clock. Set back 1.5 seconds each time the backlight is turned on. And by turning on the backlight, everything is done in them: starting and stopping the stopwatch, timer, training. We used a stopwatch (started - stopped) - the time on the clock went off by three seconds. We took advantage of the training - time went astray by another three seconds. Etc. For a couple of days, a minute lag easily accumulates. For a week 5 minutes. 3. The application requires a permanent connection to the Internet, for any sneeze. And of course registration. Consider this not an application, but a website designed as an application. For example, when flying on an airplane, you won’t be able to do anything with them, set anything up. An absurd situation. To set an alarm on my own watch - I need the Internet, and in fact the approval of the Garmin servers. 4. The watch has its own minimum circle diameter. And if your hand is not wide enough, you will break the body. On a narrow female hand, they also ugly stick out to the sides. Breakage is guaranteed even earlier. 4. Inadequate price, especially considering the quality and attitude towards the consumer in general. 5. The company is completely unfriendly to customers. Starting with attitudes in shops, crooked websites and software that seem to hint: you are not welcome here. And ending with the support service.