Garmin Venu, GPS Smartwatch with Bright Touchscreen Display, Features Music, Body Energy Monitoring, Animated Workouts, Pulse Ox Sensor and More, Black, 010-N2173-11 (Renewed)

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I had been using FitBit Charge for a long time and I wanted to change my watch. I like the 5-7day battery life of FitBit and I was not interested in any watch that has battery life less than 5days. I dislike Apple Watch. So this Garmin Venu renewed was like a new watch and I was very happy with my purchase. With delivered features and apps, my Garmin runs for 9-10days on a single charge. I wear it all day and I use in workout/cardio/running modes during my activity time. I love how accurate the calculation or gps is but I'm bored of watch faces.When I installed watch face from Garmin IQ, most watch faces drain the battery. I used the ones with minimal info and made sure it doesn't run in the background but the battery still lasted only 2-3days. Even after a factory reset, the battery life didn't come back to 9-10day range. I had to get a replacement and then the battery started lasting 9-10days.This is a great change from Fitbit but without watch faces, there is not much to enjoy as it can only show few bits of info.

This is my first "smart" fitness watch, so granted I have a limited pool to compare the Venu to. What I can tell you is that I love my watch:+ It's nice and bright; I can read it easily in the sun.+ The glass is tough. If this were my phone, the screen would have been shattered five times right now.+ The coaching program is great. I've lost ~25 pounds in four months, since beginning the coaching feature. Being prompted about the next phase of my training drills while I'm on it is new for me, and so incredibly helpful.+ It does the things I would want a regular smartwatch to do: email, weather, etc. but also has fairly reliable fitness-related tools like the PulseOx and sleep tracker. The heart rate monitor feels pretty accurate, although I haven't done extensive testing.For the sake of balance, a few cons:- The stock watch faces are pretty bad. Head to the Connect IQ store and download better ones. They're free and much nicer.- Sometimes my emails will "retrigger" and I'll have to dismiss them multiple times. This has occasionally caused me to be email blasted -- getting 10+ emails all at once, thus blowing up my watch, and many of those emails being repeats. I'd say this happens a few times a week. Annoying, but not deal-breaking.Ultimately, if I broke my Venu, I'd buy another one. And I think that says enough.

Great value for the money. A renewed watch that looks new

I was thinking for a long time getting a smart watch. Looking at different options on the market, worrying about the hassle it takes to charge it frequently.As I had a Garmin GPS running watch before (a Forerunner), I was very familiar with Garmin and I found it VERY reliable. Thus, I decided to get a Garmin Venu. The watch has exceeded my expectations. It is VERY EASY to use, reliable and has a pretty good battery life. A downside is that listening music drains a lot of battery, but unless you running marathons regularly, it should not be a problem. You can use the GPS and listen music at the same time.You can get a really fancy watch with lots of bells and whistles for double the price, but ask yourself WHY you need a smart watch to begin with. If all you need is a watch to use it for excercise, monitor heart rate and blood oxygen level, listen music when running then get a Garmin Venu. If you want to show off to your friends with the coolest gadget -- and unable to run even a single mile -- then spend $500-600 or more. Enclosing, I recommend you buy a protective case for it. Costs about $10 and helps save your investment.

I love this watch.

Got this about 2 weeks ago, and while the renewed price wasn't much less than the cost of a new one once it's on sale, I didn't want to wait for a good price and got the renewed.The watch itself is great, screen looks nice, it tracks activities very well, easy to use with garmin pay, I can see notifications. Super happy.Battery life - I turned off most notifications as they bother me, left only calls and SMS (which I get very few of). I also turned off Pulse OX that many suggested takes a lot of battery.With this in mind, I am now on 57% after about 4.5 days that includes one 1 hour activity. Pretty happy with it.