Garmin Venu Specifications, Features and Price

$187.15

  • Release date:: September, 2019
  • Display:: 1.2 inches, AMOLED, Touchscreen
  • Body:: Silicone, Fiber-reinforced polymer
  • Storage:: 4GB
  • Battery Life:: 5 days+
  • Compatibility:: Android 5-0+ and iOS 11.0+

EDITOR’S RATING

Design:4.4 out of 5 stars (4.4 / 5)
Battery:4 out of 5 stars (4.0 / 5)
Fitness tracking:4.6 out of 5 stars (4.6 / 5)
Features:3.9 out of 5 stars (3.9 / 5)
Price:3.4 out of 5 stars (3.4 / 5)
Average:4.1 out of 5 stars (4.1 / 5)

Last updated on March 19, 2024 4:14 am
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Description

Garmin Venu Specifications and Features – The Garmin Venu is a fine-looking fitness smartwatch with a remarkable design that’s both classy and stylish. The Venu released alongside the Vivoactive 4/4S has a 1.2 inches AMOLED powered display that offers such a highly interactive and lively display that’s captivating to watch. The Venu comes equipped with more fitness tracking features than the Vivoactive 3 which makes it a more comprehensive activity tracker. It also has a quite long battery life that lets you go long on a single charge while also being able to keep you connected to all that matters to you.

The 12.7 mm thick Venu supports touchscreen with two buttons by the side to aid navigation. The Venu is fully equipped with all the standard sensors to track your active life comprehensively with hydration tracking, respiration tracking, body battery energy monitor, 20 preloaded sport modes, and animated workouts that coach you through your favorite moves all added. While also being equipped with ANT+, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi to keep you connected to all that matters to you.

The Venu also has a long battery life that lets you go about 5 days on a single charge, plus support for onboard music storage that lets you take over 500 of your favorite tracks with you.

The Vivoactive 4 series consists of the Vivoactive 4 and the smaller 4S, plus the Venu which is powered by an AMOLED display. There’s also the special edition of the Vivoactive 4 and 4S in the place of Captain Marvel for the 4S and First Avengers for the 4 respectively.

Garmin Venu Features

  • 1.2 inches AMOLED display, highly interactive and lively, and touchscreen.
  • Up to 5 days long battery life in smartwatch mode.
  • Clock features: Time/date, GPS time sync, auto daylight saving, alarm, timer and stopwatch.
  • Download watch faces, widgets, data fields and apps from the Garmin Connect IQ Store.
  • Calls reject/text response with preset texts (Android only).
  • Find my phone, watch, control music on smartphone and remote camera control.
  • ANT+, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi keeps you connected to all that matters to you, so you never get to miss important updates.
  • Rated 5ATM (swim-proof).
  • 20mm interchangeable straps with quick release feature.
  • Compatible with both Android 5.0+ and iOS 11.0+ devices.
  • Sync data from watch to the Garmin Connect community – a thriving community of fitness enthusiasts where you can connect and share.
  • Onboard music storage that lets you take your favorite tracks with you on the go, as well download from your favorite apps such as Spotify, Deezer and Amazon music.
Garmin Venu Activity Tracking Features
  • 20 Preloaded sport modes.
  • Animated workouts that can coach you through your favorite moves, helping you save on training videos.
  • Added hydration tracking that lets you log your daily water intake to help you stay hydrated and see how consistent you are from day to day.
  • Added respiration tracking that tracks how well you’re breathing throughout the day, during sleep and during training activities.
  • Added body battery energy monitor that tracks your body energy throughout the day so that you can find the best time to train or rest.
  • Added pulse Ox sensor that tracks your blood oxygen level during the day and while you sleep to help you see how well your body absorbs oxygen.
  • Advance sleep monitoring that tracks the three sleep stages; light, deep and REM with data from pulse ox and respiration tracking for a more detailed and accurate sleep analysis.
  • Added wrist-based underwater heart rate tracking that tracks your heart rate while you swim, which can help you manage your training intensity more productively.
  • Garmin coach is your personal running coach right on your wrist that can coach you through your next 5k, 10, or even longer goals.
  • Safety and tracking features include, LiveTrack that lets you invite others to join in your training goals and incidental fall detection that automatically sends your location to preset emergency contacts when a fall has occurred (phone must be connected to watch to enable this features).
  • Activity tracking features includes, steps counter, sleep monitoring, calories, floors climbed, distance, intensity minutes, fitness age and all day stress tracking.
  • Gym and fitness equipment includes, cardio and strength workout, automatic rep counting and available gym profiles which includes strength, cardio, elliptical, rowing, stair stepping, and yoga.
  • Training, planning and analysis features includes, downloadable training plans, VO2 max, activity history on watch, GPS speed and distance, create custom activity profiles and advanced workouts.
  • Heart rate tracking features includes, HR zones, HR alerts, HR calories, % HR max and HR broadcast data to paired device.
  • Running features includes, GPS-based distance, time and pace, run workouts, foot pod capable, and available run profiles such as running, indoor track running and treadmill running.
  • Golfing features includes, Garmin auto shot, pin pointer, digital scorecard, yardage and round timer.
  • Outdoor recreational features includes, back to start, total decent/ascent and available outdoor recreational profiles such as skiing, snowboarding, XC skiing, stand up paddle boarding and rowing.
  • Cycling features includes, time/distance alerts, compatible with varia, speed and cadence sensor support and available cycling profiles such as biking and indoor biking.
  • Swim tracking features includes,pool swim metrics, stroke type detection, basic rest timer, time/distance alerts and pool swimming as available swim profile.
  • Log and track cycles with the Garmin menstrual cycle tracking feature that can help you detect physical and emotional symptoms.

Pros

  • Lightweight, sturdy, and stylish design.
  • Long battery life
  • A comprehensive fitness tracker.
  • Swim-proof.
  • Onboard music storage.
  • Preloaded animated workout modes.

Cons

  • Lacks microphone and loudspeaker.

Garmin Venu Review

Garmin Venu manual

Additional information

ABOUT DEVICE

ABOUT DEVICE

Device name

Garmin Venu

Device type

Gender

,

Release date

September, 2019

Predecessor

Garmin Vivoactive 3

Successor

Versions

BODY

BODY

Dimension

43.2 x 43.2 x 12.4 mm

Weight

46.3 grams

Shape

Circular

Case material

Fiber-reinforced polymer

Strap material

Silicone

Bezel material

Stainless steel

Strap size

20 mm

Screen protection

Water resistance

Durability test

Swim-proof

Yes, recommended

Color

Black, Gold, Rose-gold

DISPLAY

DISPLAY

Display size

1.2 inches

Display type

AMOLED

Display resolution

390 x 390 px

Pixel density

Always on

Yes

Custom watch face

Yes

Input type

2 Physical buttons, Touchscreen

CONNECTIVITY

CONNECTIVITY

Bluetooth

ANT+, Bluetooth v4.0

Bluetooth calling

No

GPS

Galileo, GLONASS, GPS

NFC

Yes

Wi-Fi

Yes

MEMORY

MEMORY

RAM

ROM

4GB

Memory card slot

CELLULAR CONNECTIVITY

CELLULAR CONNECTIVITY

Technology

None

SIM type

Band

NOTIFICATIONS

NOTIFICATIONS

SMS alert

Yes

Calls alert

Yes

Email alert

Yes

Event reminder

Yes

Third-party apps alert

Yes

MEDIA

MEDIA

Audio

Bluetooth music

Loudspeaker

Microphone

Camera

No

Radio

No

SENSORS

SENSORS

Accelerometer

Altimeter

Yes

Ambient light

Yes

Barometer

Compass

Yes

ECG

Gyroscope

Yes

HRM

Yes

Pulse oximeter (SpO2)

Yes

Temperature

Yes

Sensor(s)

ACTIVITY TRACKING

ACTIVITY TRACKING

Blood oxygen

Blood Pressure

Calories

Yes

Distance

Yes

ECG tracking

Heart rate monitoring

Yes

Sleep tracking

Yes

Steps

Yes

Stress

Yes

Fall detection

Menstrual cycle

Floors climbed

VO2 Max

Yes

Swim-tracking

Yes

Underwater heart rate tracking

Yes

On-screen workout

Yes

Sport modes

20

BATTERY

BATTERY

Battery type

non-removable Lithium-polymer

Battery capacity

Battery life

GPS with music: up to 6hrs, Smartwatch mode: up to 5 days

Charging type

Charging dock

Charging time

1-2 hours

Solar charging

No

PLATFORM

PLATFORM

Chipset

CPU

GPU

Operating system

Proprietary OS

MISC

MISC

Companion app

Garmin Connect

Compatibility

Android 5.0+, iOS 11.0+

Payment system

Garmin Pay

Interchangeable strap

,

Voice command

Find my phone

Yes

Box content

Charger, Garmin Venu, Manual, Straps

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