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Garmin Venu 3, Black
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Nov 30, 2023
RebRH
5 out of 5 stars review

Heart features

I have been wearing my Garmin vue 3 for about 2 weeks now. It has been very insightful on why I am so fatigued at times. I have Ehler Danlos Syndrome and dysautonomia POTS and my pulse will jump 40 beats from laying to standing. My body battery often drops to 5 at the end of the day.

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Feb 5, 2025
My baby
5 out of 5 stars review

Awesome features

I upgraded my vivo music watch to the Venu 3 garmin and couldn't be happier with my choice! It has all the options my last watch had and more! (I have had two vivomusic watches in the last 10 years and loved the Garmin experience......just don't make the mistake of jumping in the shower with them on because that's how I lost my last two)

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Feb 20, 2024
Tau07
5 out of 5 stars review

Great Design

I am a longtime Garmin user having different models from top end to vivo's. I love the design & how its feel on the hand, great big screen compare to the top end which are heavy & bulky. You added almost all the features most appreciated. The Watch face must have more options like adding the date, temp....

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Dec 7, 2023
Rayda
5 out of 5 stars review

Still learning, great so far

Frankly, I wanted a Samsung, but the battery life was an issue. 1 or 2 days just wouldn't work. And now I know I made the right choice. I'm still learning the features and how to use the 2 apps for it. The address book is a little clunky, but functional. My old Samsung just used the phone's list while the Garmin needs to import up to 50. I've added a data watch face that has about 10 different fields and colors galour. Love that. It's a pricey watch, but it does everything I've wanted so far.

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Nov 20, 2024
ducati
5 out of 5 stars review

Fantastic Features and Display

I was ready to upgrade my original Venu which was Garmin's 1st wearable with an AMOLED display. I absolutely love the new Venu 3! With the larger AMOLED display, easy to navigate menu, upgraded features/activities, speaker/mic, long battery life make this a fantastic product!!!! I would highly recommend!!!

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Jan 9, 2025
dzne
4 out of 5 stars review

Solid as a Timepeice, Needs TLC for the rest

I primarily bought this for the Garmin reliability and the ECG option. As a timepeice and activity tracker, it is solid. The ECG is picky with wrist/forearm placement/pressure. I have about an 80% success rate. The watch vibration has been "audible" since day one and people in meetings will ask me "Is that your watch??!!" I've contacted support a few times and they have been less than helpful and do not followup. I've also noticed that features disappear and even full resets can't bring them back. The ability to take calls on my watch disappeared, music doesn't play anymore, but the Starbucks app works and Scouts can find my watch if it give them the GPS coordinates.

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Oct 25, 2023
MarkVIBari
2 out of 5 stars review

I Really Wanted to Love This Watch

I really wanted to love this watch. I upgraded from a perfectly functional original Venu, and had the Vivoactive before that. I love the new (to me) user interface and enhanced sleep features. The key features I was looking forward to on the Venu 3 were 1) upgraded HR sensor and ECG capability and 2) Voice Assistant to dictate texts and the ability to make and answer phone calls. I wasn't worried that the ECG capability wasn't enabled at launch, although I would have hoped that Garmin would have planned to have the FDA approval in place prior to launch. The Voice Assistant and ability to use the built in mic and speaker to make phone calls and listen to or dictate texts has been a major disappointment. I couldn't get the Voice Assistant to connect to my phone when I was setting up the Venu 3, even though other notifications were successfully being sent to the watch. I contacted Garmin Support and was sent a replacement. I was able to get the replacement Venu 3's Voice Assistant to connect to my phone and work, but other major problems still remain. The watch disconnects from the phone if I get more than 10'-15' away (line of sight) or go into another room. My previous Venu had greater range. I also have a great deal of connectivity issues with the Voice Assistant when riding my bicycle. I'm guessing that the fact that my phone connects to my bike computer (head unit) is causing a problem, but being able to reply to texts or calls while riding was one of my primary use cases. The final problem is that while I can initiate or answer phone calls on the watch, after a few seconds, the audio on the watch stops and reverts back to the phone itself. I have to hurry to get the phone out of my pocket and talk to the caller before they think I've hung up and hang up themselves. These features feel like they're still in beta and weren't ready for release. The fact that the voice features were working on the Venu 2 Plus makes the problem even more aggravating. For the amount of money I paid for this watch, I didn't expect to be a beta tester. At this point, I'm hoping for a firmware update to address the Bluetooth connectivity issues which seem to be at the core of the problems I'm experiencing.

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Thank you for your review and experience with the Venu 3 device and we would like to discuss this further over email. If you would please email us at product.support@garmin.com so that we can get more details from you and work on a solution, thank you for reaching out to us. Venu 3 Support: https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?productID=873008&tab=topics

Jul 4, 2024
Mikeo1115
5 out of 5 stars review

Best Smart Watch Out There

I've had this watch for about two weeks. I had the Venue previously. The upgrades make the watch more user friendly. I exercise 4-5 times a week and the activity features are second to none. I can also answer the phone with the watch which is very helpful!! Love it!!

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Jul 29, 2024
Benny G
4 out of 5 stars review

Excellent watch, except for...

I really wanted to love the V3 and would have, had it not been for its inability to track floors or stairs climbed. That's right, there's no altimeter on this watch, even though there's one on the previous version. For that reason, I had to return it.

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Nov 18, 2023
Jim-M
4 out of 5 stars review

Functionally great, easily scuffed.

I've had this watch for about a month now. I previously was running a vivoactive 3 until it got to the point it wouldn't hold a charge the entire day. When I upgraded I wanted similar features and the venu3 had the integrated speaker so I went with that. Expectations wise it's been great from a a user standpoint and is responsive. Unfortunately from just everyday use it turns out the metal is just painted rather than dyed so it scuffs easily and I can see by the end of the year my black metal watch turning silver from simple usage. And for the record I have a desk job so it's not like I'm taking it into a construction site.

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