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Garmin Venu 3, Black

I had the Venu 2 it was damaged when I was hit by a SUV riding by bicycle. Ended up replacing it with the Venu 3 and absolutely love it. The speaker and microphone are great to have and already start using it. The sleep tracking is spot on.

Great smartwatch

Garmin

Upgraded my Venu 2 to the Venu 3.  Not a significant upgrade as I was perfectly happy with the 2. The 3 however has a few more bells and whistles,  a bigger display and will get new feature upgrades in the future that the 2 will not.

Good as Advertised

My Venu 3 is good but not excellent. The software isn't intuitive and easy to use.
I just got it, so I hope as I learn more of the watch I'll get the results I hoped for.

Great but not excellent

I bought this about a month ago and I am relatively satisfied with the watch, although is does seem to have some issues with connection and messaging back, the watch resets itself a lot and doesn't really pair well

Garmin venu 3

I am 68 and not great with electronics. Once I got a 40 year old niece and a 19 year old great nephew involved, I was able to get the data screens I wanted for my trail runs. Come cross country ski season I'll employ them, again.

Took me a while

I owned the Instinct 2 and it was OK but harder to see info on the watch face. My new one is lightweight, comfortable and colored information makes this a great watch!

Super comfortable!

The phone calls switched to the watch by it self. And if someone call you, you cant stop the watch from vibrating you have to answer or reject the call. So bad experience

Factory defect bad

Has become my daily wear.  Tons of features and stellar battery life. Bright screen. Pricy but worth it. Supporting Apps work well. Only negative is strap feels cheap and makes your wrist sweat during regular wearing. Should be perforated.

Great Activity watch.

Looks stylish, works well, and has a great user interface. Great for a jack of all trades smart watch with the signature Garmin high quality health tracking.

Great all around watch

I'm very happy with this device offering a balance between smart watch and fitness tracker capabilities.  Things I really like are the morning report for sleep tracking, exact distance tracking/mapping, battery life and refined appearance.

Great Multipurpose Device

This is a great product, especially if you want for walking and running maybe for exercise but this is not good product for especially if you want for sleeping sleep tracking I try to compare with Fitbit on this doesn't work as it is and it says it will record the nap, but I never see it record the nap so I returned it

Sleep tracking is not accurate

walmart.com

Before I bought my Venu 3 I had an Apple Watch, I travel a lot and just keeping up with the charging on that thing was such a chore that I finally got to where I was mostly just wearing a dead watch on my wrist more often than a live watch.    I was a bit worried I would miss some of the functionality on the Apple watch.    After using the watch for 3 months, I don't miss anything about the Apple watch.    The Garmin does everything I want it to do.   It has a revolutionary feature where when I wonder what time it is, it shows me what time it is...  immediately... without having to click through 97 popups or find a location to charge.   It does allow you to get notifications from your watch but I disabled that feature on Day 1.     It also keeps track health stats (steps, sleep, etc) and has some useful health related features that I can use when I want to.   But mostly its just a watch and it doesn't demand a lot of my attention.    As I write this review, I don't remember the last time I charged the watch and it's at 15%.   I will probably charge it later tonight but if I don't it will probably still be alive tomorrow in low power mode and in my experience stays alive on the last 5% for enough time to not require a panic charge.     It also charges super fast.  

As far as appearance,  it's a little plain but it's not terrible.   I bought some rubber bezel/edge covers in different colors that make it look a little more like a real watch.   Search for Venu 3 Bumper Frame on walmart.com - I just bought the open face kind sold by some obscure foreign company I'll never remember the name of.   I don't have a glass protector and don't feel like I need one, no scratches to date.    I don't like the rubber wrist straps in general (even the Apple ones) so I bought a 3rd party nylon strap with velcro that also improved the look IMO.     It's definitely harder to find that style of strap than for the Apple Watch but they are out there.

It's definitely not as polished from the software side, things are a little clunkier and the layout/menus are a bit confusing.   It took me a few weeks to adjust but now I could care less and I actually kind of like that it discourages me from fiddling with my watch all the time.   Some of the advanced health metrics require a 2-3 week data collection period before they start working right, which was my main anxiety at the beginning.      It doesn't integrate with apps which I thought I would miss.    For example when my plane starts to board it doesn't popup an app notification telling me my plane is boarding, but that was so laggy I was usually already in line before it went off and I can't think of anything I miss about that.

Overall I love this watch and significantly prefer it over the Apple Watch.   The battery life is amazing and it doesn't demand daily attention but still tracks all the health metrics I wanted and presents them in a nice way when I want to look at them.