Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I spent a lot of time looking at many different activity trackers and reading many reviews. I was skeptical to buy the vivofit 3 after reading the reviews on here and other websites. I chose garmin because it has features that fitbit does not. It was important to me to have an activity tracker that I did NOT have to charge. I have enough gadgets that need to be charged and don't need another. This way I can have it on my wrist and forget about it. Also I never have to miss a day of tracking. Secondly, it is waterproof. That seems like such an automatic feature, and I'm surprised other companies haven't followed suit. I enjoy that I never have to worry about taking it off for a shower, to go swimming etc. Lastly, I love the fact that I can switch out the band for a different color/pattern! So far I am very happy with my purchase, and have not run into many of the issues other reviewers have complained about. It was very easy to sync to my phone. The wristband is a little big, but not as bad as everyone was making it out to be. I was worried it wasn't even going to fit, but that was not the case! I got on the elliptical to test out the intensity minutes-another thing many reviewers said did not work. For the first 12:00 minutes the 0 on the move IQ screen was just blinking, but then it picked up right at the 12:00 minute mark and counted every minute. It did appear to be about :50 seconds behind the elliptical, but after I was done and was leaving the gym it was spot on. So you just have to be patient with it starting to count the minutes on the actual screen, but it is working. I'm guessing it is just making sure it is actually intense activity. Bottom line: Simple, easy to use product without all the bells and whistles of other products, which is exactly what I was looking for. Battery life was more important than heart rate and notifications for me. I really didn't need another product other than my phone giving me notifications-that is not the purpose of an activity tracker, and I think we could all benefit from being a little more present and get away from our phone and our texting :)