Garmin Vivomove Sport is a traditional watch with fitness tracking smarts

(Pocket-lint) - The Vivomove Sport, revealed astatine CES 2022, represents Garmin's instrumentality to the much accepted ticker with added fittingness features - arsenic the past merchandise successful this bid was the Vivomove HR, each the mode backmost successful 2017.

The Vivomove Sport is described arsenic a "hybrid smartwatch", arsenic it features classical ticker features, principally existent ticking ticker hands - which tin determination to uncover an different hidden touchscreen display, hence the hybrid merchandise stance.

Featuring a silicone set with colour-coordinated ticker dial - determination are 3 colours to take from - the Vivomove Sport's lawsuit features metallic accents to item that classical look successful a modern fashion.

When not being utilized arsenic a classical ticker to simply archer the time, the Vivomove Sport offers humor oxygen readout, 24/7 heart-rate, accent tracking, slumber monitoring, and much besides. The onboard BodyBattery diagnostic uses this suite of sensors to assistance measure your body's existent vigor level, based connected your input and output.

As the 'Sport' portion of this Vivomove's sanction suggests, determination are besides circumstantial sports-tracking features, which usage connected GPS - i.e. it's not built-in, you'll request an outer instrumentality for this, specified arsenic your telephone - for yoga, strength, Pilates, cardio, treadmill, cycling and different activities.

The ticker is said to past for 5 days with each these features active, oregon instrumentality to ticker mode lone (i.e. with the touchscreen off) and you'll get six days of usage per charge. 

The Garmin Vivomove Sport is disposable now, priced astatine £159. That's little than the older Vivomove product, which is simply a bully sign, truthful agelong arsenic you tin judge the deficiency of built-in GPS present arsenic the tradeoff for specified an affordable terms point.

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Writing by Mike Lowe. Originally published connected 4 January 2022.