There are a very good handful of mobile-outfitted smartwatches, but no truly excellent LTE fitness trackers. Garmin has joined the mobile fold with a Verizon LTE-prepared edition of its Vivoactive three Audio health and fitness look at, introduced at CES 2019.
Garmin’s ‘Vivoactive three Audio – related by Verizon’ (as it is known as) will use its LTE functions mainly for very good: There are included protection functions, like affect detection that can deliver an SOS considerably like the Apple Watch Series 4’s drop detection. The LTE can also be utilized for downloading and actively playing tunes on Deezer and ultimately Spotify. For people extras by yourself, supplied the LTE extras usually are not way too high-priced, it could be intriguing. Fitbit does not make an LTE-outfitted health and fitness look at nevertheless.
The relaxation of the watch’s functions seem to be related to the Vivoactive 3 Music look at Garmin launched final yr. The LTE-related product guarantees 5 times of battery lifestyle, or 4 hrs when utilizing the look at with GPS, tunes playback and LTE all turned on.
Value has not been introduced nevertheless, but the look at ought to be offered in Q1 of this yr. Anticipate a price tag north of the non-mobile Vivoactive three Audio, which expenses $300.