Know the real you with the Garmin Venu® 3 smartwatch, the ultimate on-wrist coach designed to support your goals — whatever they may be. Featuring a bright, colorful display and up to 10 days of battery life, this smaller-sized GPS smartwatch is purpose-built with advanced health and fitness features to help you better understand your body.
Body Battery™ energy monitoring helps you keep your energy levels in check with personalized insights based on sleep, naps, stress, workouts and more. Improve the quality of your sleep with personalized sleep coaching and nap detection plus even more details such as HRV status*. During the day, switch up your activities with animated workouts and more than 30 built-in sports apps — including for active wheelchair users — plus advanced training features to keep you going strong.
With its built-in speaker and microphone, the Venu 3 smartwatch makes it easy to make and take calls right from your wrist when paired to your smartphone — and even reply to texts by using your phone's voice assistant. Plus, enjoy connectivity features such as music storage, Garmin Pay™ contactless payments (with a supported country and payment network) and more.
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I had a first gen Venu that was good but eventually the screen became unreadable. I attributed this to "new design" issues and replaced it with the Venu 3. What an improvement. The screen is easily readable, even when riding in a broad range of weather conditions. It syncs to the GPS satellites quickly and seems to be accurate. There is a slight discrepancy in distance between the Venu-3 and the 510, but I don't know which is more accurate and, for my purposes, it doesn't matter. I have not had any lost signal issues in steep canyons or heavy forests.
The heart rate capability is great. I don't like wearing the chest strap, so the watch is a good alternative. It seems accurate and gives me the instant readout and the zone allocation across a full ride. It has a HRV mode but the minimum pulse is 50, so I usually don't get measurements. The morning summary of sleep and other stats is nice.
I have not looked at all of the features but have used the common ones frequently and they work. I am not a competitive rider, so I don't need the most advanced metrics and techniques that are available on some of the other watches. I ride multiple times per week and the Venu-3 more than meets my needs.
The connection to my phone has not had any problems. My rides are quickly sync'ed to Garmin and Strava. I like getting call/text/news alerts on my watch and yet it doesn't feel overwhelming.
There are a couple of things I don't like. The "crash detection" sensor is too sensitive and can't be adjusted. I have triggered it a couple of times that were not crashes (or even stops) and missed cancelling the warning which caused my spouse a lot of anxiety. A niggle is that after a long day in the saddle, it tells me to "get moving" after I sit down to relax. I feel that my movement metric has been more than satisfied after a multi-hour ride and I don't need this erroneous reminder. But it is easily ignored.
This watch is a bit pricey, but between riding and wearing as an everyday watch I find it more than meets my needs.
