I bought this a month ago (prior to owning an Apple Watch) and love it! The battery life is amazing, I love all the features, and its sleek design is awesome! The only downside is there are a TON of features and it’s taken me time to get used to navigating all of them in the watch itself.

I love not having to charge daily like I did with my apple watch, but I miss being able to reply to my text messages from my watch. Hoping they come out with a model in the future that is cell enabled and allows messaging and phonecalls without having to carry my phone when out for a run or a hike.

I bought this roughly a month ago. I upgraded from the venu 2s, which I also loved. This one is better. I love the tracking feature for lifting, it has made lifting way easier and I don't have to worry about it ending things before they actually need to be. I like the sleep coach feature, it's helped a lot. I also really like the traning/rest feature, it's been super helpful with my training. Overall, it's a great watch and I'm really glad I made the choice to upgrade.

I wanted to love this watch. I have a chronic health issue, POTS, and Ive been wearing the Polar H10 chest strap to monitor heart rate and was tired of wearing a strap which is why I decided to get this watch but the heart rate readings were off by 20-40 bpm compared to the chest strap more often than not. Same goes with the SPO2 readings, compared to the finger pulse oximeters, the accuracy is way off. I had to return it.

I've had the watch about 3 weeks. I love the watch -- big improvement over my past fitbit watches. I'm happy garmin offered the 3S as I have a small wrist. I'm still learning the watch and get confused on how to interpret some of the data but that will come with more use. I'm not happy with the strength workout setting. I like to put the app on and go, not have to keep interfacing to tell it reps are complete. Otherwise no big issues. Battery life is better than expected so far.

We've been using this watch for about a month. Love it as a fitness watch. The display is awesome. Many great features too. However, my husband (who has a new Venue 3) and I have had multiple issues on the golf course. Neither watch gives real-time distance to the green while playing. And about half the time doesn't give shot distance. Sometimes if we swipe to the next hole or the previous hole we can get it to work. But not always. But then if by chance, it is measuring your shot, you lose that as you swipe to a different hole. It's very frustrating. We went to the Garmin service center and we were told that this is a known issue that the techs are working on. Hoping they get it resolved very soon as his Vivoactive 5 and my Venue 2 worked great on the golf course.

I have had this watch for about a month now, and I am so happy I switched from the Apple Watch! I wanted more insights to my fitness and health. This watch has done that and has shown me how I sleep, when I need to rest my body, when I need to train lighter, and my activity levels throughout the day. I am still exploring all the features, so I know there is SO much more that I a missing. BUT I love this watch. One of the main things I love is the battery life. IT LASTS SO LONG!! Such a big perk. I can wear it for days and I love how it tells me about my sleep patterns and how much sleep I need for the following night. I like how I can track my fitness activity and it gives me detailed overviews when I'm done. If you're looking for a fitness watch, this is definitely the one for you!

I’ve been using the apple watch for exercise for a long time. One of the drawbacks Was that it didn’t stay charged as long as the Garmin. This is a phenomenal feature of the Garmin has to stay charged for a week or more. The Garmin has so many more features, but this makes the watch quite complicated to use. It’s not as intuitive as the I watch for this reason I give it a middle rating for those who have time to go through and figure out-I would suspect it has a superb rating.

I’m eating a jar of pickles with my 32 ounces of water to see if I can avoid a headache today from running outside Every Saturday since I got this stupid watch (June, Houston) I have a headache all day bc I have to run outside for VO2Max reading. Without this watch I would never go outside between March-November. Sure, I look cool with the stylish face options and sleep band and I wake up already feeling accomplished by my sleep score. And I am really enjoying the nap feature, morning wake up alarm and tracking all my cardio and strength training in one spot. I should be hiding inside at a safe 72F but the VO2Max reading is such a temptress. Maybe pickles will help.

A Fitbit user for five years, I decided to "upgrade" to the Venu3S. I have found that it is taking a long time to learn about the features. Reading on my phone or watching YouTube videos is not my best way of learning. This I have found frustrating. I know that I am not using the device to its full capabilities.