GarminVenu 3 GPS 45mm Smartwatch, AMOLED Touchscreen, All-day Advanced Health & Fitness Features, Voice Functionality, Music Storage, Wellness Smartwatch with up to 14 days battery life, Black

This is a great watch! It is much improved on my previous garmin. It's smoother, easier to navigate and the battery life is amazing.I bought this one for myself, and the smaller version for my wife, and she loves it.Back in 2018 she got an iwatch and I got the Garmin Vivoactive 3. They were life changing at the time, as we were very active in the gym and outside. It was clear that my wife preferred many of the functions on my watch that the iwatch didn't have, although hers did look much better.My Garmin had battery issues back in 2021 and the iwatch screen got a crack in it last year (2024).So, a few years on, we are less active and want to get back to it. But I lacked the motivation. Then I remembered how I used to monitor my sleep, heart rate and training sessions on the watch and thought...maybe a new smart watch will give me the get up off the sofa I need.So I researched the best smart watches of 2024 & 2025...and this one kept coming up.So I bought two (2), the smaller stylish one for my wife and this larger one, for me.They are brilliant, the Garmin App is much improved too, much easier to record my gym sessions.This watch can monitor your HRV, it can provide a sleep coach, it's is sleek and stylish, and is better at dealing with messages and calls.I highly recomment this watch!

This was a gift for my partnerGood value for money good dealFunctionally I’d fantasticShows Fitness levels n your health stats ur stress levels sleep patternsBest quality n long lasting batteryEasy to download the app & Bluetooth connect

I love its long battery life and brilliance and clarity of its display. It has loads of features, a lot of the which I'm not going to use, but for monitoring my sleep and health and my walks it is such an improvement over my old watch. I agonised for months over its purchase and when I saw its price dip under £400 again I made the move that I should have done months ago. I wanted an altimeter for my walks which ruled out some of the alternatives and I must say that it seems to work better than the one on my Vivoacive 3. It cost a lot more than the old Vivoactive 3 but so far it seems well worth it and I am discovering more features and using them every day (l only had it 5 days ago)

Personally think it's expensive for what it is, it is easy to use, good quality, excellent battery life, charges quickly but too big for my liking.Mainly it's NOT for shift workers. On set up you have to set up a sleep schedule with no option to skip it which I ended up having to set it up for 0000 to 0001 just to get through that step. I work nights and every night at 2205 I get a notification on the watch asking me if I'm still awake (I hope so because I'm at work). Some days it won't give a sleep score because it doesn't know when I've been to bed and then some days it's giving me a morning report before I've even been to bed. It's definitely not "smart" on that basis. Going back to my basic Fitbit Charge 6

Coming from Apple Watch 9 (owned every series since 3 and upwards) this watch was a game changer. Installation was, dare I say even easier than setting up an Apple Watch.The battery is fantastic without the Always-on-Display and SOp2 enabled. Lasts up to 12 days without activities, about 6-7 days with activities every other day. A hell of an upgrade from Apple Watch single day battery life.The screen is beautiful, it's fluid, smooth and crisp, the size is absolutely perfect for me - it almost ticks every box.What chips away a star from the rating. Missing features.Venu 3 is supposed to be Garmin's kind of smart watch, less of a training partner. It explains why it doesn't have training readiness and training status, features that are a must have for "hard core" users. Something I really wish I could have.No problem, but then why did Garmin decide that the "smart watch" doesn't get "smart" features like Smart Alarm? That doesn't sound smart.For golfers it might work if you know the course layout as it shows you the distance to green, but no maps available.It has happened frequently that the watch closes and saves an activity I paused, no way to stop it from auto saving. Stupid.Summary:Venu 3 is kind of a smart watch, but also kind of a decent training partner. It’s not great at anything but not bad at anything either. For me, it gets the job done, but I’d be happy to pay £30 extra to unlock the features I’m missing; however, I don’t want that suddenly turning into Garmin getting some ideas, like subscription locking features.It's a £300-325 watch, no more. So MSRP of £400 is insane. Had I paid £400 it would have been a 3-star review. At £250 it would be 5-stars. I paid £302 so I think 4-stars is fair.