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.

Have been using the venu 3 for a while now. Has everything that you need to track workouts/sleep/steps etc. Battery life is exceptional as well. Compared to the Apple watch I used to own this one is miles ahead and has a better look to it. Watch is easy to use once its set up.

I bought this watch to replace my Apple Watch because of the battery dying and the activity reports being inferior. I love that the garmin has better activity tracking and more detailed features. I wish the garmin activity connected with apple health to share with my friends. The only other thing I would change is the fact that my alarms don’t sync with my phone alarms so I cannot silence them from my watch like I could on my Apple Watch.

Great watch with tons of cool features. My favorite pros: battery lasts a week or more, classy round screen, tons and tons of activity modes plus the option to create your own, lots of great sleep details, ECG app and fall detection with emergency calls. My least favorite cons: random reminders to move (unable to set up reminders at preferred times), must be within a few feet of phone in order to use Bluetooth, no reminders for updates, and not as user friendly as apple products (though it’s very refreshing to break away from apple empire).

In two weeks I’m more motivated than I’ve been in years. There are more features than I’ll ever use. But there are more features I use than ever before. I’ve been wearing a FitBit Sense for nearly three years and I’ve barely used anything other than its watch, SpO2 tracker, smart alarm, move alert, and sleep features. Perhaps because it seemed gimmicky, in spite of its accuracy. And I’ve never felt the desire to figure out and use the other available features. But it seems that my Garmin Venu 3S has added features that compliment the ones I was using on the Sense and its formatting is appealing to me. It challenges me to improve by giving me more detailed explanations and breakdowns of stats. I love the user interface, ConnectIQ, Red Shift, Body Battery, Glances, and too many other things to list. So much of what it offers is a benefit for me and I love the way it looks. I bought the Garmin Index S2 shortly after and I love the added features it brings and the integration with my Venu 3S. I’m taking my older smart scale that merely tracked weight and doesn’t sync to Garmin to my sister’s house for my long visits there. The only feature it lacks is a smart alarm. And because of that, I still wear my Sense to bed for that feature. It’s also enabled me to compare the two devices for accuracy with their SpO2 and sleep tracking. The SpO2 is always within 1%, except for the rarity of them being identical. It appears the Venu could be more sensitive with its newer sensors and tends to put more time sleeping into REM, where the Sense puts it into deep. The Sense puts more into awake, where the Garmin does light sleep. I have also compared the Venu 3S to a finger Pulse Oximeter and they run extremely close, and even more so over a timeline. I love my Venu 3S so much, I’ve even bought several watch bands to dress it up and mirror my mood. I do want to caution, I read that Garmin watches don’t work as well with leather straps, especially darker ones. But I’ve been able to resolve the issue by rolling and flexing the leather bands to loosen them up so they fit properly and allow the sensors to function properly. Without doing so the readings were always very low and didn’t come close to the Sense of finger Oximeter. Overall it appears I’m now as into the Garmin pipeline as I am Apple/MAC. And I’m seriously happy with that. Though I’m deeper into Apple, it’s only because I have more products (sans a watch). But integration, quality, features, representation of the product, user interface, etc … I’m hooked on Garmin. And I love creating watch faces.

This garmin finally has voice control to answer calls on the watch (and respond to texts). Not necessarily a deal breaker but I'm glad Garmin finally did it! The best part is the vibrant display that is super easy to read! I'm loving all the "advice" throughout the day. Get up and move, rest (lol), etc. It's also a very pretty watch compared to my old 945. All in all I am so glad I went for it!!

Got this for my wife who ran track and cross-country for BYU. She wanted something with better fitness features than the Apple Watch would offer, but still classy looking to wear to church,business meetings, etc. She loves the Venu for her runs. Very accurate pace and mileage features. She also loves the sleep reports. Highly recommend.

Let me get the bad out of the way first. I simply don’t want to have to manage multiple apps. I don’t want to be told I have to even install one on my computer to actually update certain features or download or purchase some items. Improve the user experience please. Aside from that? The good: basically everything else. You’re getting a lot of bang for your buck. Everything functions intuitively and well.

I received this watch as a gift about a month ago. I had a garmin 245 music and wanted to upgrade to a watch with a few more smart watch features. I am blown away by everything it can do! I love the strength training program that displays right on the watch face, the sleep and HRV tracking is great.

For the price of this watch it is decent but not great. I was super excited about the ability to use it with my phone but honestly I am not impressed. The watch face is very cheap looking and the options are lacking compared to the Forerunners I have. The phone keeps trying transferring to the watch even when I told it to connect to iPhone. This is not cool when I need to keep conversations private. I have to keep transferring it back to my phone. Huge disappointment. Trying to scroll through the screens is horrible. There is a huge lag and often times I have to swipe 5 or 6 times to get it to go to the next screen. I was told to just update the watch. Then I was told that I needed to update it through garmin express because the update might just be hung up. I have done everything I was told and it still lags. My forerunners don’t have this issue at all so I’m super frustrated.