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.

I've been a fitbit user for over a decade & finally made the switch b/c I took on the challenge to run a marathon. We'll that may not have been my best decision this watch truly is. Besides great running feature. Love the stress/ body battery. Love how my msgs/ emails appears. At times with a photo. So many features, I haven't worked through all of them. Downside is the strength training tracker. I have a difficult time using it

I have used my venu 3s for about 3 weeks now. I love the data that it stores. It is easy to read. I love the sleep suggestions and body battery, it helps me understand why I didn't perform as well as I thought I SHOULD. It helps me set goals to try to continue to improve my health and performance. I am quite disappointed with the text messaging capability (or lack thereof) with iPhone users. I am not going to make all of my family and friends download a messaging app and create accounts. We need an update to where it can talk to iPhones and we can use the watch to text back. That is my only issue with this watch.

Bought this a month ago after years of an Apple Watch. I love the style and the easy readability of the face watch. The stats are helpful. It’s easy to use for running and general workout ms for fitness tracking. It has more than I need but not too much that I can’t navigate it. And the battery lasts a week!!!

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.

Awesome watch, really love the sleep quality tracking. It has significantly helped my sleep schedule. Even though I might go to bed and wake up 9 hours later, some nights I only got 5hrs of actual sleep and the watch knows that. So it has really helped let me know when I am falling short. Only down side of this watch is that it has a weaker GPS than the running specific ones or the other athletic watches, so when starting an activity you usually have to wait for it lock in. Besides that, the battery life lasting a week is incredible!

I had very high expectations for this watch and it performs adequately. The battery lasts for under 4 days if you’re using all of the features, however, it does charge very quickly. I have been wearing it 24/7 for 2 weeks and have already managed to scratch the metal border around the face. A little disappointing when you spend so much money on something, but I tend to be hard on my jewelry so not entirely unexpected. Overall, I like it and am satisfied with my purchase.

I’ve had an Apple Watch for years but was tiring of always adjusting notification settings, working towards a seemingly random “move” goal, and then it started shutting down in cold weather activities, robbing me of tracking abilities. I research and polled my athletic friends and coaches, overwhelmingly being pointed in the direction of Garmin. The Venu 3S met my sport tracking requirements, and the battery life and a health features pushed me to choose it over an Apple Watch. After a month with it, I can easily say I won’t go back. I love the precision of watch features, how appealing it looks, and mostly I love that I can better control annoying phone notifications so I’m less distracted and anxious throughout my days. This watch has been a dream and I look forward to many happy years with my Venu!

I came from being an avid Apple Watch fan, and the SE model. I was influenced by all the content from other apple users online to get the watch. I'm just really REALLY disappointed and sad that there is no way to backlog alllll my data from Apple Health or my Fitness account. There's some ways around importing your walks, runs, and cycling, but not my YEARS of data. If I try not to think about it or dwell on it too much then it's fine.

I love my new watch. I love that I do not have to plug it in every day. Heck, I don't have to plug it in every 7 days, it lasts 10 days! That is amazing! I also love that the step counter is showing my steps as I am walking without a lag or having to open the app on my cell phone. It is a great watch and I am so glad I made the purchase!