Garmin watches on Amazon

This amazon prime members only which is a pain in the hole.

Missed the 735 when it went to €160 earlier in the year.

Can anyone recommend the Vivoactive 3 Music for the Spotify functionality?
Would love to be able to leave the phone at home when running and just use the watch and bluetooth earphones but read the garmin forums and quite alot of reports of issues with the spotify app...

I've had a few dropouts on mine but the earphones are cheap mpow ones from Amazon. I wear it on my left wrist so attenna (?) is on the right prob causing the issue. Anyone recommend ones where the signal would be on the left?? I'm a gym I wouldn't expect many drop outs. Seems to happen on runs only.

TitianGerm wrote: »

Works flawlessly for me. I leave the phone in the car when I'm in the gym and play my Spotify playlists to my Soundcore earbuds. Haven't had a drop out yet.

Was just looking at the Vivoactive 3 for 129 there and trying to decide between that and the Forerunner 235 but the Vivo seems to have disappeared off the list. Was looking for more of a general fitness tracker and the stess monitor appealed to me. As I understand the 235 is a few years old now so not sure about that one anymore. Any thoughts on the Forerunner 735XT, I'm thinking it might be overkill. I cycle a bit but have a Garmin for the bike and was hoping to get into a bit of running, won't be doing triathlons or anything

Scarlet42 wrote: »

I have the 735xt and think its brilliant .. use it mostly for running and the odd open water swim .. really nice watch and very light

Looks nice, I'm just wondering if its overkill for what I need. General fitness, sleep tracker and that is all I really need at the moment. Have a Garmin Edge on the bike so I'm covered there. Forerunner 235 is an option but I'm hearing its near the end of its life.

dealhunter1985 wrote: »

the vivoactive 3 music is still available on amazon.de
https://www.amazon.de/Garmin-v%C3%ADvoactive-Music-Granitblau-GPS-Fitness-Smartwatch/dp/B07DWBPP4N?ref_=Oct_DLandingS_PC_7f595f07_11&smid=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF

Thanks million for that. Ordered the Music version there, worked out at 180 which is great.

jamesd wrote: »

I do not see the option to add it to my cart, it says sign up to prime for this offer.

It's a Prime Day deal. Top left of screen should be a 'discover Prime' banner, should get a free months Prime trial there and once you have that should be able to add to basket

Got sorted , my prime was cancelled.

Basil3 wrote: »

Some great deals today on Garmin devices on Amazon

Link here

Highights would be Vivoactive 3 down to £130 and Vivoactive 3 Music down to £150. The Forerunner 735XT is also down to £160, the lowest it as been as far as I can see.

Thanks for this, got a chunk off one Iwas intending to buy soon,

got my vivoactive 3 music today and took it for a test run..
Very happy and Spotify worked perfectly on it with my bluetooth earphones.
Great to be able to leave the phone at home.

conor_mc wrote: »

Polar M430 for GBP90 is a good deal for a wrist-based heart rate tracker too.

Link?

Basil3 wrote: »

Some great deals today on Garmin devices on Amazon

Link here

Highights would be Vivoactive 3 down to £130 and Vivoactive 3 Music down to £150. The Forerunner 735XT is also down to £160, the lowest it as been as far as I can see.

Expecting delivery of Vivoactive Music today, cheers fro the heads up!

jamesd wrote: »

My garmin watch came today from germany but just an empty box and no garmin watch in it, onto chat here now.

Was the Amazon box open?

jamesd wrote: »

Amazon box was sealed, Garmin box was unsealed and just a manual in it.

That's very strange. Unlikely that staff at the Amazon warehouse would be able to steal it.

jamesd wrote: »

Maybe a returned watch then? They are sending a replacement tuesdsy to me.

Returned stuff is sold through the Warehouse Deals but I thought you bought a new one?