Can I see the tracking of calories and heart rate and other features on the phone itself or need it to be connected to a device via bluetooth?
349775
The device is a watch not a phone and it will give you a heart rate by pushing and holding the correct button. It also gives you calories, steps and miles, one at a time by scrolling through the options. It does not connect to another device.
349776
You can see calories used, steps, miles, only if you are in very good light. The dark background is almost impossible to read. Even when you follow the instructions to boost illumination, it's like trying to resAd your watch by moonlight!I have not connected my watch to another device- not sure if it even can be.
1720051
Yes there is an app...called Garmin connect...the vivofit does not automatically send stats to your phone ...connect by Bluetooth and sync...
737334
Hello , the Link Monitoring Armband comes with Bluetooth to check it on the mobile app
1468262
As mention in my review, I use "MapMyFitness" apps. It contains calories and heart rate monitoring.
388579
Yes it does integrate with the Health App, but Bluetooth is spotty at best for mine; so I have to enter it manually or use the Cardio app to measure heart rate.
284963
No. And it doesn't do calories burned. It does not have a heart rate monitor. If it has this feature, I never paid attention to it because it was not something that was/is important to me.
621710
If it doesn't you should be able to get an app. It has both Bluetooth and WiFi capabilities.
1159368
No, it does not store any data on the device. It needs the phone paired with it to track heart rate.
1958303
there are other training programs for the iPhone, i do not know if the link to the FT80 or other monitors but they allow you to track workouts and calories.
2069086
In addition to connecting wirelessly via WiFi, you can also connect to your smartphone via Blutooth and upload activities to Garmin Connect that way as well. Another cool feature using Bluetooth is the Live Tracking feature where your friends/family can follow you in real-time on the web as your device uploads data via your smart phone. Either way, you don't need the USB Ant+ dongle anymore.
993331
Yes. It will display the heart rate. No straps. It uses optical sensor on the backside of watch which is flush with your wrist. They claim the accuracy is 1%. If you do not want to connect via bluetooth to an app, you don't have to.
1352883
I used the Bluetooth to connect for heart rate in cyclometer. It worked fine in the past. I just upgraded to cyclemeter elite a few minutes ago and I can't seem to get my heart rate to show up. I'll keep working on it and let u know.
801293
The watch needs to be paired with a phone over bluetooth to work and get data.It doesn't matter what network technology the phone uses, as long as the phone has a data connection to the telecom network and the internet.
448303
you can see the battery level on your phone when it's connected via bluetooth (speaking from experience with iPhone 6 running iOS 8 - not sure about other phones)
290527
The problem is that you need the device to be capable of acquiring data from the transmiter in it's own frequency and I do not think that the iphone is able to do that without a special additional device. For example you have a app called sports tracker that has its own heart rate monitor, I do not know how it works gut there must be some way to catch the information from the heart rate monitor to the phone. For what I know is very probable that you should need some additional device to get the heart rate monitor frequency.
1388435
You have to wear the chest strap for it to indicate your heart rate. I do not think this device would register calorie burn.
1378419
Yes it does. I just got mine going 2 weeks ago. I like it. It is several programs or you can ride manually. It does track calories, has a timer, a pulse rate monitor and can be used to give a recovery report based on pulse. The calorie counter is the 3rd number from the bottom in the functions it is monitoring. My calories counter always runs when in use in the manual mode and I assume always.