I literally can’t live without smartwatch, I’d miss 2/3 of the work calls/msgs, waking up with the smooth vibration instead of a loud alarm makes my mornings so much better (not good lmao, but better) and the sleep monitoring is crucial to me, as I can see better how I’m managing my time and how to fix potential sleep deprivation.
I hate screens tho, so a square on my wrist would make me go crazy ahahah so I opted for a garmin vivomove sport, which is a cool hybrid, gives me what I need keeping a nice and clean design.
The Forerunner 55 is a great, basic watch. If all you're looking for is sleep, heart rate, steps, and some other basic stuff--plus a better aesthetic--check out the [Garmin vívomove® Sport](https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/742133/pn/010-02566-00/#specs).
I have a Garmin viviomove it's the simplest of their watches. The gps only works if your phone is close. But I never walk without my phone so not a problem. Their other lines have more capabilities.
I love the way it looks, it is an analog watch with a smart screen. It doesn't have all the features but the price was very reasonable under $150. I have had the watch for 3 years. I charge it about every other day but it would last nearly 3 full days without a charge.
It has some smart features, I can get texts or alerts from my phone. It will auto log and guess my workout if I forget to start it. I can tell it if I am walking, running, cycling, on a treadmill, swimming, yoga, stretching, aerobics or strength training. I really love it. (I am an android user, with no desire to buy anything from Apple so an apple watch was not on my list). I wanted style first, fitness tracking second, and don't really care about having a smart watch outside of the fitness tracking.
I think it is fairly accurate on my calories. I am using a TDEE calculator to compare the watch and my average tdee matches the watch's average calories out.
For awhile I wore a Garmin Vivomove as my main watch for this reason. It had everything I needed except GPS - I was running without my phone at that time because I didn't want to carry it, so I'd switch out to my older, but GPS-enabled, Garmin on runs. Now I run with my phone so a Vivomove would be fine (you can enable your phone's GPS to work with it).
Mine looked very much like this one. They have a lot of different colorways. I only stopped wearing it because the early Vivomoves (like, 3rd gen.) had screens that died after two years. I'm sure that's been addressed by now.
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