Our Overall Score:
9.1/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our GARMIN Vivofit 3 review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if GARMIN Vivofit 3 is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Fitness trackers category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £39.97
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like GARMIN Vivofit 3. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Garmin or alternative products in the Fitness trackers category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of GARMIN Vivofit 3
GARMIN Vivofit 3 scores 9.3/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Fitness trackers. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of GARMIN Vivofit 3, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for GARMIN Vivofit 3 and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Fitness trackers, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Fitness trackers? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
GARMIN Vivofit 3 scores 9.3/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Fitness trackers category was £169, whilst the cheapest we found was £19.99 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of GARMIN Vivofit 3 down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Fitness trackers category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Fitness trackers category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for GARMIN Vivofit 3.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Fitness trackers category. This was £99.04 from the 19 products we found in that category. So GARMIN Vivofit 3 actually comes in below average at £39.97.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £169 and the least expensive, which was £19.99. In total we found that of the 19, 16 were more expensive and 2 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as GARMIN Vivofit 3.
Prices of products from Garmin
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Garmin. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Garmin, which was £171.15 of the 45 products we found. So GARMIN Vivofit 3 price is below average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Garmin was £12.99 with the most expensive coming in at £599.
Prices of products from Garmin and in the Fitness trackers category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Garmin that sit specifically within the Fitness trackers category.
For this we found that the average price was £113.99, making GARMIN Vivofit 3 at £39.97 actually below average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £169 with the lowest priced item being £39.97. In total there were 8 items that were more expensive and 0 that was less expensive.
Reviews of GARMIN Vivofit 3
GARMIN Vivofit 3 scores 8.7/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good GARMIN Vivofit 3 is.
Overall score
GARMIN Vivofit 3 scores 9.1/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Garmin so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for GARMIN Vivofit 3 by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: GARMIN Vivofit 3
- Brand: Garmin
- Model Number: 10146653
- Tracks steps / distance / calories / sleepUp to 1 year battery lifeWaterproof
- EAN: 753759154516
- Description: Top features: – Move IQ motion detector helps you monitor your fitness – Daily step goal helps you improve your everyday habits – Move Bar with audible alert reminds you to stay active – Wear it 24/7 with one-year battery life – Garmin Connect lets you track your progressMove IQ motion detectorChange the way you move every day with the Garmin Vivofit 3. This fitness tracker features a Move IQ motion detector that tracks your the duration of your movement, as well as the time of day for easy viewing.Use Move IQ for different activities like walking, running, biking, swimming and cross-training – the fitness band can tell when your movement changes, recording it in Garmin Connect.Daily step goalTo motivate you to a healthier lifestyle, Vivofit 3 learns how you’re currently active, then gives you achievable daily goals that adjust with each milestone you hit. See how you’re progressing by checking your movement against aerobic activity goals recommended by health organisations including the World Health Organisation.Move Bar with audible alertEven if you’re sitting down for most of the day, Vivofit 3 reminds you to move every hour with its Move Bar. A red move bar accumulates every 15 minutes across the screen, sounding an audible alert when you’ve been inactive for 60 minutes. Walk for a few minutes to reset it.Wear it 24/7With up to one year of battery life, you can wear your Vivofit 3 24/7 without charging it or taking it off. You can use it to monitor your sleep quality, and since it’s water resistant, showering and swimming are fine. Pair it with different-coloured accessory bands (sold separately) to match what you’re wearing.Garmin ConnectVivofit 3 syncs automatically with Garmin Connect to feed it movement data all day. Access the platform via the free mobile app or your desktop to view your information in detail, improve yourself with challenges and even compete with friends and family.The device cues you to move if you’ve not achieved a daily step goal, and praises you when you hit each target. As well as health tips from experts, the fitness tracker features an activity timer with a stopwatch feature to let you record timed activities like walking and running, which can be saved and sent to Garmin Connect.
- Product ID: 3614217543
