GarminVenu 3 Slate Stainless Steel Bezel 1.4-Inch AMOLED Touchscreen Display Smart Watch with 45mm Black Case and Silicone Band

The Garmin Venu 3S is a fantastic smartwatch, especially for those with smaller wrists. The **AMOLED display** is vibrant, and the **fitness tracking features** are top-notch, offering detailed insights into sleep, workouts, and recovery. The **battery life is excellent**, lasting up to two weeks, which is a huge plus compared to other smartwatches. However, it lacks some premium training features found in higher-end Garmin models, and the price is on the higher side. If you're looking for a stylish, health-focused smartwatch with solid functionality, this is a great choice!

My husband bought this for me for Mother’s Day and I’m so impressed. I switched from the Apple Watch and it is so much better. For starters, the battery lasts over 8 days for me. With my Apple Watch, I don’t think I could go more than a day without charging it. This watch has so many more features and it seems more accurate at tracking steps, heart rate, sleep etc. The sleep and body battery feature is so cool. As a stay at home mom of 2, it’s really informative to see my stress levels, my sleep habits, body battery and much more. I also love how it adjusts and increases your goals for you as you surpass the previous goal. It’s really motivating. As an Apple phone user, the one negative is that I cannot respond to text messages on here. I can them but cannot respond like I could on my Apple Watch. Honestly that’s the only negative. However, You can answer calls on the garmin. The watch itself is incredibly light weight compared to the Apple Watch. I also love that it’s not too sporty and has an elegant look. I can wear it when dressing up and it goes with everything. Overall, this watch just has so many more features and I’m so glad I switched.

Awesome, user-friendly. does calendar sync, steps and workouts, syncs with my calorie tracker app “Lose It,” and lasts over a week without having to charge, does sleep score, and makes me happy.

Garmin venu 3 is awesome. Love all the different features and options to tailor to your preferences. The watch looks good on and is a fabulous tool for improving steps, sleep, active lifestyle etc. highly recommend.

I got the Garmin Vesu 3s to replace an apple watch to track heart rate after I noticed my apple watch showing out of the norm readings only a year after purchasing. I never would use a watch for medical advice, but it is nice to be able to note my basic heart rate for my chronic illness. I was advised to try the Garmin because it was built more for athletes and I chose the Vesu 3s because it can do an ECG. I am happy to report that I do like it better than an apple watch! It is slightly larger than the apple watch, which I don't prefer, and the band isn't as nice as the apple watch either, but the watch is more superior in my opinion. I like that the watch face can be customized more than the apple watch and so far it has been pretty spot on with my heart rate (I cross check its data with other methods of tracking heart rate to get a good idea). I am OBSESSED with the fact that it stays charged for so much longer and I can wear it to sleep. Don't love the charging as much. I wish it had a pad it could sit on to charge like an apple watch. It also has a whole host of other health functions to use as well. They give you a USB-C charger and I had to buy a specific converter for it; the chord also isn't long enough and finding a replacement that is longer is something you have to go search for. However, the charging function is simple and fast and works well. Overall, I can't complain about some of functions, I am only relieved that it is completely functional and seems to be living up to its quality so far!

I finally traded up for the garmin after my apple watch battery couldn't last an entire day. The garmin battery life is crazy, I only charge it once a week. It tracks my sleep, is waterproof and the perfect screen size. It is worth every penny. It also has no scratches so far and I wear it 24/7 so its durability is extremely good.

There are so many things wrong with this watch it's hard to begin. First off I was trying really hard to get past all the problems and try to get used to the watch. My last watch was a fossil 4 and it was amazing. The only downside to that watch which was a huge downside was the battery couldn't last a full day when using the watch functionality regularly. Unfortunately, Fossil has stopped making their smartwatches and have gone a different direction so now I'm left with trying to find another brand that is as good and has a better battery. I thought I found something better when I found Garmin's venu series. I was sorely mistaken.Let's start with the only two positives I have about this watch: Physical aesthetics and battery life. I bought the 41 mm diameter version of this watch and it feels and looks amazing. It's extremely light and the face and back of it have the dimensions of a small and unobtrusive as well as elegant looking watch. Battery life, I haven't had a chance to test just because I was disgusted by the watch after the first 30 minutes of trying to get it set up. On paper, the battery life looks amazing so I'm just going to give Garmin the benefit of the doubt and say that, yes, it will probably last a full 10 days.All right, now to the laundry list of garbage associated with this watch that makes it completely unusable.1. This watch is incapable of connecting to my Wi-Fi router. I'm pretty good at setting up devices on my router. I can set them up with automatic settings or manual settings pretty easily. Anything that has the ability to connect to a modern router I've been able to connect to my router. So far I've had several failed attempts at connecting to my Wi-Fi from this watch. I've attempted to make the connection from the watch itself as well as from the Garmin app. I've restarted the watch and attempted these connections again. I've also attempted doing the connection manually on the watch by setting the security type of my network as well. I know the SSID and password for my network like the back of my hand so the chance of user error trying to set this up is zero. This reason alone is enough to return the watch. Without Wi-Fi access there's no way to configure apps, there's no way to install apps, there's no way to sync up data to my phone, basically you can't use the watch for anything other than checking the time. If that's all I wanted then I would have gotten a cheapo $20 piece of garbage at the store that only tells time.2. The UI is nowhere near as good as WearOS 3.0. Garmin touts their watch as a device for active people who are outside a lot and want to track their location, distance, calories and everything else associated with being active. To do this, they decided to build their own operating system/app instead of piggybacking off of what Google made. That was a big mistake because there UI and UX designers are absolutely incompetent at building a user experience that is intuitive and easy to use.The way you have to swipe around to get to different screens is not as intuitive as WearOS. All of the swiping is mostly vertical and really only gives you exercise and activity screens. You can swipe right to give you a custom screen which could either be a music app or a couple of other different options. That's it. That's all you get. For $450 that is pathetic. Furthermore the physical sliding of your finger across the screen has to be perfectly done from the outer edge of the screen to make a swipe register. My Fossil watch would let you start your swipe from anywhere on the screen and as long as you swiped in a particular direction that it recognized (Left, right, up, down) it would do as you asked.I would love to have reviewed the rest of the watch such as the activity functionality as I was using it, The GPS accuracy, the battery life, and everything else associated with using The everloving atrocity that is the Venu 3S, but alas, Garmin made it impossible to actually use their watch. I wonder if this was a ploy by the engineering team to sabotage the company. It sure feels like it.