I bought this watch a month ago after reviewing it for a bit, and, so far I love it! Main reason for changing from an IWatch was the battery life! Really like the sleep feature and the body battery feature.also, the ability to customize my heart zones. Haven’t used it outside for hiking or biking yet but looking forward to it.

The Garmin Venu 3S strikes the perfect balance between advanced technology and practical functionality. If you're looking for a stylish smartwatch with top-tier health tracking and essential smart features, without unnecessary frills, the Venu 3S is an excellent choice. It's a testament to Garmin's commitment to delivering reliable and user-friendly devices.

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.

This watch, specifically the 3rd generation, offers so many great features that helps bridge the gap between the Apple Watch and Garmin. Receive and reply to texts, answer calls, all with a reasonable battery life of 5-10 days in full use mode. The new resolution on the screen is a welcomed change as well. I'm pretty anti-bezel. So my only change for the next generation is a smaller bezel.

I made the switch from an apple watch and haven’t regretted it! While an apple watch is a a little more user friendly and to learn, the venu 3s made up for it with all of its features. The battery life is amazing and I love being able to download my music so I can workout without my phone. Plus I can still get all the same notifications I had with my apple watch, so I haven’t looked back

I am enjoying the ease of use. I like all the features for tracking my overall health. I used it on a 16 mile day hike a couple weeks ago, and the GPS tracking was great as well as the tracking of all the health data points. I wish it would detect possible heartbeat arrhythmias in the background rather than having to open the ECG app to check. There doesn't seem to be a way to turn off the Wifi without going completely into power saver mode, which turns off a lot of other features I regularly use. I have had problems where it won't accurately track my heart rate when I'm on my indoor bike trainer. Other than these issues I am pleased with it and would get another Garmin watch again.

I had the garmin narrow fit band and this on caught my eye, it came on sale and I ordered it, had buyers remorse but after a few days use I like it very much. So light you don't notice it on your arm. Many features and I just use a few. No problems at all so far.

This watch is so beautiful and I love the features it comes with, all of the activity options, its waterproof, the sleep mode, etc. BUT... I don't think this watch likes apple products that much! When I first got the watch I stopped receiving text messages which I needed because I work in EMS so can't always have my phone in my hand. When I looked online trying to figure out a solution there was not much online and all that was online I attempted to do. I finally restarted the device and started receiving my text again. I was just a bit annoyed given how much I've spent on this watch. One thing I also don't like is when I have my watch on I wish my actual phone wouldn't make noise, just my watch when receiving a text or social media notification. Like apple watch, when your phone is connected to it and when its on your wrist, the phone itself doesn't make noise, just the watch. So due to Garmin not having that feature its convenient when I get a call but my hands are busy and I cannot silence my phone... Lastly, I dislike when I'm a certain feet away from my phone, the phone disconnects to my watch. Sometimes I run into the store and leave my phone in and within feet my phone disconnects from my watch and I do not like that! Aside from those things, I love the watch when I workout and have no complaints in that aspect.

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 purchased my Garmin venue 3s 2 weeks ago and I used to have the Google pixel watch. I absolutely love my Garmin watch over the pixel Watch. The battery is absolutely amazing! With my pixel watch sometimes I couldn't even go a full day without charging it and with this one I can go at least 6 days without charging .Not only that, it does a better job with tracking my activities and my steps. I am so happy that I switched.