GarminVenu 3S GPS 41mm Smartwatch, AMOLED Touchscreen, All-day Advanced Health & Fitness Features, Voice Functionality, Music Storage, Wellness Smartwatch with up to 10 days battery life, French Grey

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 my wife, this is the smaller version 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) this one for my wife and the 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!

I have been using fitness bands for the last few years to track my daily routine and my occasional outdoor exercises (cycling and hiking mostly).I wanted to have a watch instead of a band and tried some Fitbit devices but they were too buggy. I mulled over this watch for a long time due to the price, but to be honest, once I got it, I can honestly say it's the perfect one for me.I use it all day and night to track my daily routine and sleep. Body battery is accurate since when it shows being close to 0, I really do feel like my energy is gone completely. Morning reports on the watch are a nice touch to get a quick feel of what your sleep quality was and also what's in store for the day ahead.Never had any issues with the watch during exercises, the data it captures is accurate and very detailed. The mobile app is really good and the connection to the watch is seamless, never have I struggled to sync anything (hear this Fitbit?). Battery life is about 1 week when doing 4-5 exercises that use GPS too, so pretty good.You have access to some default watch faces, get some from the store or even design your one.To be honest, I've recommended this watch to friends that wanted a smart watch, since although it's from Garmin, you don't have to be an athlete to use one.

Night and day better than my Fitbit Sense 2, not least because you get everything the Sense 2 does (well, everything I care about and have noticed) *without* a subscription, but also because it's way more responsive and customizable, with a battery that lasts significantly longer (approx 7 days vs I'd say 4-5), a much better companion phone app, and with excellent web app equivalent (ie. browse all your stats and routes in great detail on a normal web browser on a PC/Mac).OK, it's twice the price, but if you factor in the subscription cost over 12 months, and the fact that Google have bought and discontinued Fitbit in favour of Google Pixel watch (version 3 at time of writing) that, while no doubt very fully featured, has a battery life of roughly 24 hours...No contest. Well done Garmin.

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.

Purchase for my gf. She likes the watch and it seems to have all the features she was looking for. Easy for her to setup, she likes the size on her wrist, garmin is known quality and the app is very user friendly and functional. The weight is not an issue and it seems to be good value for money so far but they aren't cheap