Vivoactive 5

Garmin

Vivoactive 5

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Amazfit Cheetah and the new updates. Life cycle too short?

In my opinion, this is pretty standard for sports watches. I have the Garmin Vivoactive 5 myself, and in the 2.5 years I've owned it, I've maybe received two small feature updates. The new Vivoactive 6 is almost identical to the Vivoactive 5 in terms of hardware but has a lot of new software, instea

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Poh_teh_toh in r/amazfit

March 23, 2026 5:05 PM

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Why do Garmin users constantly look down on Amazfit's health tracking accuracy?

Maybe it is because they look for anything that uplifts the sense behind them buying this super expensive Garmin Hardware. Like "Hey I paid three to five times the money you did, my gadget must be sicnificantly better!". Anyways, my boyfriend wears a Garmin Watch, Vivoactive 5. We talk about our dat

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Decent-Can-604 in r/amazfit

March 19, 2026 7:34 AM

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Saved 500€ with the GT 6 Pro… but now I understand where it went

If you care about exercise and do sports, Garmin is the way to go. You can get Venu 3 or Vivoactive 5/6 or Forerunner 255/965 for not too much money. Or maybe the Instinct 3. For Huawei, it looks nice, and it's enough, but for nothing serious. I was a user of Huawei Watch GT3 and I was happy, until

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Clean-Parsnip9816 in r/HuaweiWatchGT

March 17, 2026 11:50 AM

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Forerunner 165 or Vivoactive 5??

As someone who’s had both and just upgraded to the 165, go with the 165. Especially if you like to run. I got the music edition so I can control my music on runs with no phone. Vivoactive can do this too but once you start the run you can’t change the playlist, volume and other settings. Also the fo

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Steven65lol in r/GarminWatches

December 8, 2025 10:15 PM

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Nosíte smarthodinky, alebo skôr obyčajné ?

Mam Garmin Vivoactive 5. Nosim ich stale. Dost športujem tak si tada sledujem ako sa mi dari. Najma pri plavani to bol game changer lebo kazdy plavec vie ake tazke je pocitanie 😅 ale taktiez mi pomohli zlepsit spanok lebo som si vdaka nim vsimla ako malo spim a ako nekvalitny mam spanok a nakoniec s

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SoundOfUnder in r/Slovakia

March 17, 2026 3:43 PM

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Show me your watch faces

Garmin Vivoactive 5. 'CGM Connect Watchface digital' is the name of the watchface, and then It uses dexcom clarity to grab my numbers. Only thing that sucks is I can't get direct numbers to it from my CGM, but only apple watches have approved functionality for that.

keezy88 in r/diabetes_t1

March 24, 2026 5:53 PM

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Best advice for fitness and weightloss pre assessment centre

Heya 👋 I was in a similar boat when I first applied, could barely run down the block 😂. But I've passed my AC and got my basic date so I've done something right aha. I've been running 5 times a week, a mix of treadmill and outside. I do a tempo run (comfortably hard), intervals (speed work), zone 2

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National-Fruit-754 in r/britishmilitary

March 25, 2026 3:35 PM

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Garmin vs. Pixel

7 day battery life is why I went with the Garmin Vivoactive 5 several years ago

nevermindmine in r/GooglePixel

March 26, 2026 6:47 PM

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Galaxy Watch 6 for running

The cheapest Garmin va5, has a much much better gps than watch 6. Lol. Upgraded to 970 subsequently as VA5 lacked some running features. But I miss the LTE on galaxy watch

SuspiciousMud5338 in r/GalaxyWatch

December 27, 2025 2:14 PM

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Irritation

Try searching this group or the garmin watch group for skin issues. I do recall someone had this problem. It needs to be loose enough to move around but not too loose to defeat the pickups. It needs to breathe. Mine is very comfortable va5, and I have enough wrist hair I guess to let it breath. IMO

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robertomeyers in r/vivoactive

February 1, 2026 9:54 PM

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