Great tracking – not the battery life that was mentioned
It is very good in terms of tracking quality – a week since purchasing – I have had 4-5 days battery life with no AOD – but all tracking enabled all the time – and I have added a watch face where most of the data points are visible on the entry – could be the reason for fast drain.But that aside – the accuracy I think is solid – I used to have fitbit versa 3, apple watch se, moved on to Galaxy watch 7. This by far has been the most accurate in terms of tracking.Also the 4-5 days battery life could be attributed to this – I mainly track racquet sports – badminton, tennis and squash – where I have had sessions of around 1 hour everyday and the walk up to the court which would be another km or so.I find body battery to be useful – I find the watch tuning itself better for myself every day.I might edit this review in future post 2 months or 3 months when the watch has attuned to my lifestyle.After versa 3 – I had a step down in battery where I had to charge every morning – so even this 4-5 days of battery life is live 400% improvement for me.

Awesome watch with some expected limitations
An awesome watch. I have and am owning other Garmin watches too. It’s a good deal. For my serious running I have Forerunner 255. If you are a casual health conscious then go for it. It’s more than enough. You have all the health indicators and workouts you need.PS: Even though it’s ECG capable, for some reasons related to authorisation, it’s NOT available on India. So, don’t buy it because of its ECG feature. 👍

Doesn’t seem worth the price.
Battery backup is not as much as advertised. Lasts 5 days max. HR accuracy is also not any better than lower budget watches. Body battery feature also seems gimmicky as it doesn’t really correlate with how I am feeling during the day. Like all other smart watches, it heavily over estimates calories burnt during a workout.

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.

Leuke horloge. Doet wat ze moet doen. Meer smartwatch dan sportwatch. Maar ook als sportwatch zeker de moeite waard. Ben zeer tevreden!

Venivo già da un Garmin Fenix 6 pro solar e volevo fare un upgrade unendo la parte sport alla smart. Venu 3 risponde benissimo a questa esigenza. Veloce, bello, preciso nelle misurazioni, leggerissimo e più sottile al confronto col Fenix. Indomma, un sacco meglio! Elencare gli elementi a favore è facile, quindi descrivo i “contro”: audio decisamente basso! Durante le mie sessioni running gli avvisi sono impercettibili se non si porta all’orecchio il dispositivo. Usare auricolari è consigliato; cavo ricarica sempre troppo corto, come da tradizione Garmin. Inoltre, vista la fascia di prezzo sarebbe stata utile la ricarica wireless; nota negativissima l’incompatibilità con il mio Huawei P30, praticamente inutilizzabile per connessione fortemente instabile, con tutto quello che ne consegue. Ho anche un Google Pixel A7 col quale funziona perfettamente, quindi problema risolto, ma se avete Huawei/Honor statene alla larga! Ho provato a messaggiare l’assistenza per questo problema, risposte zero… inaccettabile! Altra cosa fastidiosa (definirlo problema ssarebbe eccessivo) configurarlo con lo smartphone è abbastanza complicato. Capisco che sicurezza e privacy sono fondamentali, ma aggirarsi per menù, flag vari, concessioni, app, impostazioni, ecc… è un bel casino! A distanza di un paio di settimane di utilizzo e aggiustamenti sono più o meno arrivato a sistemare tutto, ma che giramenti! Altra nota è la batteria: 14 gg. sono inarrivabili con 2/3 sessioni running da un’ora, più notifiche e amenità varie, però personalmente speravo qualcosa in più di 6/7 giorni prima di caricarlo. Per carità, una settimana è pur sempre un buon compromesso.Valutazione finale: fondamentalmente è un dispositivo da voto 10 al quale manca solo la lode… e lo adoro!