Garmin Venu 3S Soft Gold Stainless Steel Bezel 1.2-Inch AMOLED Touchscreen Display Smart Watch, Garmin Connect, Phone Supported with 41mm French Gray Case and Silicone Band

I’ve been using the Garmin Venu 3 and I’m really happy with it. One of the things I like the most is how it helps me organize my training routines, both for cycling and my gym workouts. The data is easy to understand and it makes tracking progress very simple. Another big advantage is the battery life. In my experience it lasts between 7 and 9 days, which is excellent for a smartwatch with this many features. The heart rate monitoring and sleep tracking are also great additions. I like being able to see how well I recovered and how my sleep affects my training. Overall, it’s a great device if you want a smartwatch that also works as a serious training companion

This is my 1st purchase of a Garmin Smartwatch. I had several Fitbits in the past 10 years and I was pretty much satisfied with just using the basics of that simpler watch. Music, payments, advanced workouts, messages, all the rest – I never used my watch for those functions. I was looking for a smartwatch to count my daily steps, track heartrate (see why below), quickie weather forecasts, a few stock quotes, oh yeah…and the time. That was pretty much the limits of my Fitbit usage. So having those plus a bunch of other simple apps or glances (Garmin’s terms for simple and oft-used apps), I was more than happy. The Garmin Venu 3S does all of this and more. If you want to do music, videos, payments, and lots of other features the Venu 3S can do those too, but that’s not my bag, as Austin Powers once said. The glances features are pretty easy to navigate once you get comfortable with these app-like functions. The Body Battery function is interesting, combining data from several apps to determine how much energy your body has or needs. Sleep Score is also useful. I even found a nifty Sun & Moon app that gives me the time for sunrise/set and moonrise/set plus the Moon phase -- useful for my daily activities and those days and nights when I pursue my astronomy hobby. I am especially pleased with the heart apps. I have several heart issues including HOCM (Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy) so being able to check my heart rate at rest and during rigorous walks is very important to me. The ECG and HRV Status apps are nice additional features to have (if you have an arrythmia check with your cardiologist/doctor before activating the ECG function). The Pulse Oximeter is also good to check upon during long walks or other strenuous activities. Battery life consistently averaging 10 days is fantastic, especially compared to Apple smartwatches that need to be recharged in under 2 days. My Fitbits could last 5 days but that meant bringing a charger for most vacations or longer times away from home. The Venu 3S is able to last 10 days right on the dot, and that included during the setup run when the watch was being used a lot more and downloading updates, glances, apps, etc. A battery saver option with a “sleep” mode will help you survive until you can get back to your home and charger, preserving battery life if you’re using the watch but running low on power. I got the Venu 3S instead of the brand new model 4S (which had just come out) because for someone not maxxing out on all the apps/glances/features, the 3S was more than enough for my needs. I didn’t see a revolutionary change from the Venu 3S to the 4/4s. If you are a person who lives more off their smartwatch than your smartphone, then perhaps the additional features and new OS (assuming no glitches) on the Garmin Venu 4 will be worth it. At an extra 20% in cost, make sure you need the latest features or it’s an unnecessary expenditure. Net-Net: this is a really nifty smartwatch for the advanced or beginner smartwatch user. The interface is very nice…swiping is easy and seamless....button navigation also very simple...the watch face colors are bright and easy to see even in direct sunlight. The 41mm size is fine for me (I’m under 6 feet tall) and most people, but if you like having an oversized watch or are a bigger person with a bigger wrist, than the 45mm size of the Venu 3 might be better for you. Very happy with my Garmin Venu 3S and if my prior experience with their GPS car navigation systems holds, I should have many years of trouble-free usage ahead of me.

I abosolutely love this watch. I had a heart attack 6 months ago so I thought it was important to be able to keep an eye on my health and healing progress without needing all of the workout information and bulk of the Forerunners. This watch is the perfect size, has great battery life (I can go 2 weeks before charging, unlike an Apple you have to charge daily), and it can track all of my health measures including ECG, SPO2, heartrate, sleep effectiveness, and more. It also tracks my workouts whether running outside, on a treadmill, or just using a stationary bike. Also, my cardiologist and I are amazed at how accurate it is compared to their monitors! Oh, and don't forget the OLED screen. It's bright and brilliant, especially indoors. But I also have no issues seeing it in full sun. For me, it's the perfect watch. It won't track a triathlon for 17 hours, but it does everything I want and more. I also love being able to create custom faces for it. :)

I had a fitbit versa 4 before this watch and Garmin outshines it in every way especially since Google took fitbit over and ruined them. The tracking apps a major improvement and highly accurate compared to fitbit. The strength training is really good overall nothing is 100% so when you do like a bench press it might come up in the app that you did a lateral raise or some other workout. Again I dont expect it to be 100% accurate on those. It is nice to be able to log those on the app and edit them for a digital journal instead of a paper one. Battery does pretty good but just remember the more you track activities it does drain the battery quicker even with always on off and battery saver on. The display is is nice and clear bout like looking at my phone clear. Still better than fitbit

Beautiful watch bought as a gift for my wife. She loves it. There are simpler smart watches out there, which would be more than sufficient for most I think, but I am a huge fan of Garmin's quality and wanted my wife to join me in the Garmin user experience.

Now having used this watched for over a year I am in love with it. Only complaint is it leaves a mark on your hand if you wear it to sleep. Has decent battery even after a year, lasts me 7 to 9 days before I charge it fully. I love the morning reports which has the weather, my sleep factors etc. The watch faces that are cute are really lacking in options but that is a Garmin issue nothing to do with the watch. I am happy with this watch with looks beautiful and also functional and a powerhouse.

He tenido 3 modelos de Garmin diferentes y puedo decir que es el dinero mejor invertido. Te cuento: ¿Qué viene en la caja? Reloj, instrucciones y cable de carga. Cosas que a mí me parecen destacables y hace que me decida por Garmin: - La batería dura unos 7-10 días sin tener que cargarla de nuevo. Obviamente depende de la actividad, en modo reloj, algún día más. - Pantalla AMOLED: bien iluminada, se ve con sol (las pantallas anteriores de Garmin eran bastante malas en ese sentido) y tiene colores brillantes - Muchos temas para personalizar el reloj que puedes descargar de su app - En el reloj puedes ver prácticamente cualquier estadística, pero luego tienes su app (Connect) que es muy rápida y donde ves todo más desglosado aún. - Sincronización rapidísima con Strava - Muy fácil manejo - Puedes crear tus propios planes de entrenamiento, sesiones… O usar alguno de los planes de entrenamiento gratuito que tienen para las diferentes distancias de carrera. - Magnífico análisis de sueño y de batería corporal - Tengo la sensación de que la correa de este modelo es mejor y no se ensucia con tanta facilidad como lo hacía en otros modelos. - Tiene la función LiveTrack que le envía un seguimiento en directo a las personas que tú quieras. Contras: - El GPS, sobre todo en entornos de mucho edificio, a veces tarda un poco en iniciarse. - A mí personalmente me gustaría ver más detallado el plan de running que te crea desde el principio… Pero como se va basando en cada entrenamiento, no ves los futuros entrenamientos. Esto es algo personal, pero es algo que no me acaba de gustar de sus planificaciones. Eso es todo :) Espero que esta opinión te haya ayudado si estás dudando en comprarlo. ——- Actualizo después de casi un año: el reloj pierde la hora y tengo que sincronizarlo con la app para que muestre la hora real (para mí es muy importante porque lo uso como reloj de diario además de para registrar el deporte). Por ahora no he obtenido solución y también me pasó esto mismo con otro modelo de Garmin hace un tiempo. El único modelo que nunca me ha dado problemas es el fénix!! Para que lo tengáis en cuenta

Nach langer Zeit des Hin- und Herüberlegens, ob sich eine Garmin für mich auszahlt, habe ich mich getraut und doch diese (nicht ganz unerhebliche) Summe ausgegeben. Als Erstes muss ich sagen: ich finde die Uhr motiviert wirklich zum sportlicher sein. Man kann ganz viele Sportarten einspeichern und tracken. Das ausschlaggebende für mich war die Möglichkeit mit der Uhr Musik zu hören, währenddem ich laufe und obendrauf noch die Laufstrecke aufzuzeichnen. Das funktioniert wunderbar und man bekommt dann mit der Garmin Connect App einen tollen Report zu seinen absolvierten Aktivitäten. Beim Wandern werden zum Beispiel genau die Höhenmeter aufgezeichnet usw... Ich habe noch lange nicht alle Funktionen ausprobiert, da ich die Uhr noch nicht so lange habe aber ich kann jetzt schon sagen, dass sie mir wirklich gefällt. Manchmal fkt die Spotify App nicht sofort und die Uhr muss ein- und ausgeschalten werden, was jedoch nicht lange dauert.

I bought this to replace my aging Fitbit Sense, which wasn't charging well anymore. It had the promise of using the phone's voice assistant, which was better than the Sense 2 which only has access to Alexa now. It's Bixby given I'm on a Samsung phone, but it's better than Alexa and it can control stuff on the phone remotely from the watch which is a cool bonus. I did not have any appreciation for the massive difference in health tracking between a Fitbit and a Garmin when I pressed Buy Now. Every feature of the Fitbit is here in some form, both subscription features like readiness score (recovery) and enhanced sleep metrics to all of the basic stuff. Lots of things that are restricted to while you're asleep on the Fitbit work at all times on the Garmin, like respiration and blood oxygen. The sensor and LEDs on this are much bigger than on a fitbit and are much more sensitive to highs and lows in heart rate that fitbit can't pick up. The stress detection and body battery features are really cool and seem accurate. Fitness age presents an unflattering but likely pretty accurate picture of my health after wearing the watch for a few days. Everything is customizable on the watch and in the Garmin app; there is even a feature to design your own watch face with a photo background of your choice and the placement of the watch elements and complications where you choose them. You can put what is important to you front and center and you can ignore anything you don't care about. Both the watch and the app require a bit of messing around to get things looking the way you would like, but it's easy and I had fun poking at the watch for hours making everything perfect. There are a LOT of pre made watch faces included with assorted complications, some of them configurable and some not. The one pictured is not configurable but it displays exactly the stats I want and looks good. There are several included faces that look great so you aren't forced into their store right away. It is ironic that there is a working YouTube Music app for Garmin watches but not for the top of the line fitbits. I have loaded my likes playlist to the watch, which loaded almost 300 songs in the same order they are in on the YM app. This took a while and I left the watch plugged in while it downloaded over wifi. Connecting headphones was really easy and I set the "shortcut" swipe from left side to open the music player. I have used the watch to listen to music instead of my phone on some walks and it's a great experience. I am very fond of this. It's an upgrade in every way from a Fitbit Sense. It's the Samsung phone of fitness trackers with all of the bells, whistles and options you could ask for and some you didn't know you wanted before you got the watch. Worth the 600 bucks.