The new Garmin Venu 3 and Venu 3S GPS smartwatches feature extensive fitness insights, an AMOLED touchscreen display and an impressive battery life. The new device also includes new features for wheelchair users – letting them track pushes, follow wheelchair-specific workouts and more.
Available in two sizes and for wearing all day and night, the Venu 3 series gets up to 14 days of battery life in smartwatch mode. Garmin adds that, because users don’t have to charge their watch every night, they can monitor health metrics 24/7 and receive a more holistic view of their stress, ‘Body Battery’ and sleep with new personalised sleep coaching and nap detection.
A built-in speaker and microphone also allow users to make and take phone calls or respond to text messages right from the wrist (when paired with a compatible Apple or Android smartphone).
“No matter what your health and fitness journey looks like, Venu 3 is ready to support you every step of the way,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin Vice President of Global Consumer Sales.
“Whether your focus is on meaningful rest and relaxation, getting a good workout in, chasing your next PR at an upcoming race, or anything in between, the exciting new features on the Venu 3 series provide even more personalised data, making it easier to understand your body like never before.”
Features include:
- Sleep coach: Receive a sleep score and personalised coaching for how much sleep is recommended and keep track of different sleep stages, naps and other key metrics such as Pulse Ox and heart rate variability (HRV) status.
Morning report: Receive an overview of sleep, recovery, HRV status and more upon waking up. Customise the morning report to view more personalised details. - Nap detection: Automatically track or log naps to see how they may benefit the body and the suggested time and duration they should be.
- Body Battery improvements: Monitor energy levels throughout the day to find the best times for activity and rest.
- Wheelchair mode: Track daily pushes and receive weight shift alerts plus wheelchair-specific sports apps and workouts. In creating these new features, the algorithms of some existing features were modified to enhance the meaningfulness of key insights for wheelchair users.
- Workout benefit and recovery time: Better understand how each workout affects the body and how much time is needed to recover to take on any fitness challenge.
- Rate of perceived exertion: Record how difficult a workout was and how it felt.
- Interval creation: Build interval workouts for running and cycling activities right on the watch.
- Meditation activity: Follow guided meditation practices to help reduce stress, anxiety and more.
- Built-in speaker and microphone: Make and take calls right from the watch (when paired with a compatible smartphone) and use the smartphone’s voice assistant to respond to text messages and more. Those with an Android phone can also view photo messages and respond to texts using the on-watch keyboard.
- Two font sizes: Choose between a small or larger font size to view smart notifications, workout data and more with greater ease.
Featuring a lightweight, stainless steel bezel and silicone band, Venu 3 is available in whitestone/silver and black/slate – while Venu 3S comes in pebble grey/slate, sage grey/silver, French grey/soft gold, dust rose/soft gold and ivory/soft gold. Available now, Venu 3 series has a suggested retail price of £449.99 for silicone bands and £499.99 for leather bands.
