Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Garmin Malaysia has announced the launch of the vívoactive 6, its latest smartwatch designed to be your ultimate health and fitness coach. Boasting a vibrant AMOLED display and an impressive battery life of up to 11 days, this new wearable empowers users to monitor their well-being and achieve their fitness aspirations without the constant need for recharging.
According to Mr. Scoppen Lin, Assistant General Manager at Garmin Asia, the vívoactive 6 is engineered to provide users with an in-depth understanding of their body, supporting them through every aspect of their day, from morning routines to intense workouts and nighttime recovery.
Start Your Day Feeling Refreshed:
The vívoactive 6 introduces a new smart wake alarm feature that intelligently analyzes your sleep stages within a pre-selected time window. By gently waking you with a light vibration during lighter sleep, it aims to leave you feeling more refreshed. Upon waking, the morning report provides a comprehensive overview of your previous night’s sleep, recovery insights, Body Battery levels, daily calendar, and more. This now includes heart rate variability (HRV) status, offering an early indication of your overall wellness and how prepared your body is for the day ahead. Users can further personalize this report with customizable themes, data displays, and even inspirational messages.
Comprehensive Health and Wellness Tracking:
Equipped with a suite of essential health and wellness features, the vívoactive 6 is designed to keep users informed and motivated throughout the day:
- Body Battery: Monitor your energy levels in real-time to optimize activity and rest periods. Gain deeper insights into how sleep, naps, daily activities, and stress impact your energy reserves.
- Sleep coach: Receive a personalized sleep score and guidance on recommended sleep duration. Track various sleep stages, naps, Pulse Ox levels, and HRV status for a comprehensive understanding of your sleep patterns.
- HRV status: By monitoring heart rate variability during sleep, gain a better understanding of your overall health and your body’s resilience to daily stressors.
- Stress tracking: Observe how calm, balanced, or stressful moments throughout the day affect your body.
- Meditation and mindful breathing: Reduce stress and anxiety through guided meditation exercises or utilize breathwork activities to monitor respiration rates and stress levels.
- Pulse Ox: Track your blood oxygen saturation levels both during the day and while you sleep.
- Women’s health: For female users, the watch allows for tracking menstrual cycles or pregnancy, providing relevant exercise and nutrition guidance.
Elevate Your Fitness Journey:
The vívoactive 6 boasts over 80 preloaded sports apps to support an active lifestyle, including popular activities like walking, running, cycling, and pool swimming. It also introduces new daily suggested walking workouts for added motivation. Through Garmin Connect, users can access a wide array of step-by-step workouts for strength training, HIIT, yoga, Pilates, mobility, and more. Additionally, the watch is compatible with Garmin Coach, offering adaptive running and strength training plans tailored to your performance, recovery, and health metrics, helping you prepare for races, achieve fitness milestones, or improve overall fitness. Beyond tracking steps and calories, the vívoactive 6 monitors moderate and vigorous intensity minutes, VO2 max, and more. Notably, for wheelchair users, a dedicated wheelchair mode tracks daily pushes, provides weight shift alerts, and offers handcycle workout tracking.
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For runners, the vívoactive 6 tracks crucial running dynamics such as cadence, stride length, and ground contact time. The PacePro feature provides grade-adjusted pacing guidance based on course elevation and personal pacing preferences, ideal for race preparation. Post-workout, the workout benefit and recovery time tools help users understand the impact of their training and estimate the necessary recovery time before their next session.
Stay Connected Seamlessly:
The vívoactive 6 keeps you connected throughout your day by allowing you to receive text messages, emails, and alerts when paired with a compatible iPhone or Android smartphone. Android users can also benefit from the on-watch keyboard for responding to texts. Safety and tracking features offer peace of mind by enabling the sending of a message with your live location (when available) to chosen emergency contacts if you feel unsafe or if an incident is detected. For convenient on-the-go transactions, Garmin Pay contactless payments are supported in compatible transit systems and at checkout lines. Music enthusiasts can also download songs and playlists from platforms like Spotify, Amazon Music, and Deezer (subscription required) for phone-free listening. All your health and fitness data can be viewed in the Garmin Connect app, where you can also download additional apps, watch faces, and more from the Connect IQ Store, either directly on the watch or through the smartphone app.
Stylish and Durable Design:
Featuring a lightweight aluminum bezel and a comfortable silicone band, the vívoactive 6 is available in four stylish colors: Black/Slate, Bone/Lunar Gold, Jasper Green, and Pink Dawn.
The Garmin vívoactive 6 will be available for order on Garmin.com.my, Garmin Brand Stores, Shopee, Lazada, and all authorized retailers starting from April 18, 2025, with a suggested retail price of RM1,499.
