Excellent quality. Replacing my Venu 2 Pro. Love the display. Battery life is much better than my old Venu 2. Biggest problem is that Garmin Pay is no longer compatible with either of my banks. It was a great feature on the watch as a contactless payment method. Probably will be moving away from Garmin if they continue to not support my banking in the future.

1. The bottoms to cancel or confirm an activity are very sensitive. I must to be super careful to avoid tou h them.even with my shirt sleeves or just passing hands over the watch unintentionally. 2. Sometimes the watch send messages with no sense: i.e., I walked for couple ours and I'm eating or just quiet and the watch tell me "time to move" Still to new for me but I'm sure Garmin can improve this and more issues

This watch is great. I have a pace maker in my heart, and this watch allows me to track my ecg, pulse, and blood oxygen. It also gives me a sleep score and recommendations. I'm a swimmer, and it will track laps. It does so much more, but the best part is the battery life; I have charged it twice since I got the watch, and the charge lasts a week. It completely syncs to my android phone, unlike some other smart watches.

Best decision! I recently switched from an Apple Watch Series 7 because I wanted a watch that had a longer battery, sleep tracking, and more accurate fitness reporting. After about a month of use, I am in LOVE. The sleep tracking is incredible, so is the battery life. This watch is perfect. I also wanted to step away from smart watch capabilities, as constant notifications to my Apple Watch was beginning to be too much. The Venu 3 only gets text and calling notifications and it's perfect for me! You can also still use the "Phone My Phone" feature as one can on the Apple Watch! Would recommend to anyone!!

I love that the watch has so much information available to me and that I can pick and choose what I want to see. After some practice the many menus become easier to use, but it did seem daunting at first. I like the ability to send quick responses to text messages from the watch and answer calls from the watch when I am not near my phone. Overall I am very happy with the watch and the only con I can think of is the purported battery life. My watch tends to last no more than 5-7 days when not using any of the GPS functions, which is far less than the reported 14 days it is supposed to get. I am not unhappy with the battery life, I am just noting that for me it does not last as long as advertised.

I received this watch as a Father’s Day gift and I absolutely love it. I’ve worn this watch for 10 days and still have 50% of my battery remaining. In addition to the awesome battery life, I like the numerous watch faces on the Venu 3. I now wear my Garmin Venu 3 all of the time and have dumped my Apple Watch which required daily charging.

Essentially, I'm really disappointed with the limitations this watch has for tracking activities in the gym especially using a treadmill and stationary bike. I found my old Fitbit watch was far better at fitness activity tracking than the Venu 3. In an attempt to see if there was any workaround, I did call Garmin support and they were professional but admitted there was limited functionality because of the need for arm movement with certain activities (which is ridiculous!!). The absurd "workaround" for tracking treadmill usage at just under running pace which requires holding on to the machine was "put the watch in your pocket" since you have to swing your arms for exact tracking. I was set to return it but I've since learned that most of the other fitness watches have the same limitations basically because all companies are locked into using GPS which I have no interest in. In fact I want to turn it off on the Venu 3 but haven't been successful; the supposed manner to turn it off for an activity has never worked. I also don't care for the Sleep Mode which is important to me but it keeps turning itself on assuming I'm going to bed at a certain time even after I turn the Sleep Mode off and I don't think the analysis is as good as my old Fitbit which sadly no longer functions. After reviewing other fitness watch options I did decide to keep the Venu 3 since it appears they all have similar limitations in the fitness tracking activities that are important to me. And the reason I'm keeping the Venu 3: the battery life which is very important to me and this product does excel in that area. Oh, and it's a nice looking watch ...

I bought the Venu a couple of weeks ago. I have worn the Vivoactive, Vivoactive 4s and the Vivoactive 5. I finally got fed-up with the inconsistency of the HRM on the 5. I decided to upgrade to the Venu (larger size) and I am very happy with the decision. It has some features that I have not had before and the HRM is more accurate. I bought a Garmin HRM 600 so I would have very accurate measures. When wearing only the Venu watch it is way more accurate than than my Vivoactive 5 was. I swim laps in the pool with it, so open water swimming and use it on my bike. I like that I can very clearly see the screen, especially while swimming. Beautiful, bright display on this watch.The battery life is better than the Vivoactive 5, and this time of year I use the GPS a lot when training outside. I like the strong vibration for alarms and notifications, but also like that this Garmin has sound. I have answered my phone and made a call from the watch. I have an iPhone so I can’t use the text option. I am still exploring features on the watch, and I’m very satisfied with this Garmin and with my decision to upgrade and spend a bit more for a better HRM and additional features.

I had an Apple Watch and it was getting older and I was tired of always charging it twice a day. This looked great and I thought I would try it out based on the fitness and the smart features. This watch is excellent and lasts a long time .I like to track my sleep and fitness and it does that Wonderfull and in some ways better than Apple Watch like body battery. I am enjoying not charging this for several days at a time.

I've only had this watch for a month. It has way more features than I knew I was getting. Even though I will only use a few of them it does what I wanted. I especially like the sleep score..its helping me get much better rest by making me more consious of what I need to do to sleep better And I'm sure I will learn more of the features over time. I also like the improved battery life.