Garmin Venu 2 GPS 43mm Smartwatch, AMOLED Touchscreen, All-day Advanced Health & Fitness Features, Music Storage, Wellness Smartwatch with up to 11 days battery life, Granite Blue

I have found thr Venu 2 excellent overall although some annoyance is the sleep tracking compared to my previous Fitbit charge 4. Charge 4 could work out when I went to sleep and when I woke up including if I went for a nap due to my fibromyalgia playing up so much whereas for the Venu 2 requires you to tell it when you go to sleep and wake up and doesn't track if you go for a nap which is disappointing but not a deal breaker by any regards. The sleep information it does do I have found to be highly detailed and provided many insights into my sleep patterns.Smart watch:The watch looks attractive and doesn't feel as heavy as I thought it would and provides easy to read notifications from apps, texts, emails and so on. I have found the watch easy to use and quickly got used to the menus. Not as perhaps discreet as the Fitbit charge 4 but looks more attractive and I even feel fits the part for any occasion that you would use it for.Fitness tracker:This is actually the main reason I brought it. So I do 5 days a week at the gym where I do 2 hours+ per day of exercising. The watch has been fantastic my fitness tracker with the sensors and it's calorie tracking especially the HR sensors compares to the charge 4, so I found it notices when I'm weight lifting and the HR will pick up the heart spikes or increased effort compared to the charge 4 which would be delayed before it noticed increased heart rate.I have used the workout program and created my own 5 day weight training routine which can easily be skipped or adjusted as you go along. I have found the tracking of my sets have been pretty accurate unless it's ny leg weight training then it doesn't detect any sets (since I keep it on my wrist only) but for the rest of the body it's good, when you finish a set you hit the bottom button (back button) which for my transitions over to rest on my workout program and asks how many sets you did (it shows how many sets it thinks you did but you can easily change this number if it's wrong) and you can adjust the weight of what you lifted such as if you decide to push higher or lower you can quickly adjust this information on the fly with the watch which has been fantastic go track my progress and improvements!The information it shows on the Garmin app once you've completed your workout is interesting but what I've found really helpful is the estimated sweat loss from my workouts and it suggests how much sweat you've lost and to drink that back, for me it recommends by default roughly 2.2-2.3l per day then after my workouts are complete it will recommend 2.7-2.9l per day to replace my sweat loss which is a nice way to stay hydrated.It's highly recommend from the forums that you keep your weight up to date per week as it's doing all it's calculations based on age, height and weight.I had to go and manually adjust my maximum heart rate on the watch as it was set to 220 so I did the standard 220 - my age and the watch recalculated all the different zones for heart rate. It also wants to know your resting heart rate and it can go based on your average but I waited to set that after 2+ weeks of use so it has a good amount of data to go off.. my resting heart rate is 61 BPM.There is v02 max which I have barely used or gotten into. I do not run marathons, nor do I run or outdoor cycle, just walks if I go out so I sadly don't have much knowledge of the v02 max.It has other functions like body battery which is determined from different factors like sleep to tell you how much energy you'll have for the day and your body age. The body age is to tell you what your physical age is with your fitness and the more you do the more your age lowers and becomes fitter. Since I've been working out over a month my body age has gone from 32 to 29 from all my exercising, my main thing slowing it down is my weight.Overall the sensors are fantastic for fitness, I'm sure there are better watchs out there that do more but for the price point I feel it's fantastic!Battery:The pulse ox which looks at your oxygen level (I use this at night only) uses around 6-7% per night and then exercising 5-10% each day due to my workout length. I get on average 7 days between charges which considering how much the watch is tracking of 10+ hours of workouts and 7 days of sleep and pulse ox I'm actually really impressed.Charging it back up is also really fast, I've not even needed an hour and it was fully charged after 7 days of use. The battery actually lasts the same as my charge 4 and that wasn't a smart watch with all the extra bells and whistles the Venu 2 has.Important!:If you get a third part strap it says 22mm will do however if you check forums people say a lot of the third party straps have problems staying connected to the watch, you need to buy 23mm quick release pins and use the 23mm pins on whatever third party strap you use so it fits firm and snug in the watch itself. Once I made that change my third party strap has never come off and remains completely secure.Thanks for reading my review.

Initial like - combines the fitness tracking with a watch you can wear all the time. The screen display si really clear in any situation I've used it in (including swimming) - night running included.Its connects to Garmin Connect no problem - and from there to Strava and Fitness Pal.It has all the sports I use which is great and I use it three times a day for walks and running - with a battery life of 6 daysYou can set the screen timeout to different lengths of time but just turning your wrist to look at it is enough to activate itIts very light and comfortable - no skin reaction and the alarm function is flexible and you can have multiple alarms - that don;t wake up the rest of the house ..GPS acquisition is usually very quick and the screen display makes it obvopius where to press Start and Stop , followed by SaveIt has a number of different built in watch faces you can use but IQ gives you access to loads more.I think it looks very sleek , combined with known Garmin skill with the sports tracking - so I like it a lot more than the original Garmin 235 (and others ) I've had

This is my first Garmin watch and it won't be my last. Screen and user interface is excellent. Battery life great and the fitness/health are perfect for my needs. I mainly walk/hike, tennis aces some light running. The metrics are great for that purpose.

Great smart watch with pretty much everything you will ever need to know and gives fantastic insights into sleep, health and fitness. The only annoying thing is the move alert, it doesn't seem to very accurate and tells you to move even when you have just sat down after being active, but that's the only downside which is pretty easy to ignore but just doesn't make it effective at encouraging you to move.

I received this as a birthday present. Very pleased with the watch. The strap can be a bit itchy and annoying but it's easy to swap out for something else. Does scratch very easily. Had it less than a month and managed to get a big scratch on the watch face. Looks nice on wrist. Does everything I need it to.

Well boxed, good looking for a tracker, only had it 24hrs and it appears to be very accurate with a superb android phone app, extremely easy to set up, very pleased so far

Absolutely spotless condition ,just like new, really pleased!

I didn't like this smartwatch as the claims of 11 days battery use are wrong in my use case and also all the features of the watch have been done a thousand times by other companies who have done it better.If I'm going to spend this amount of money I expect to have premium features and that just isn't the case here. I would also like to question how accurate this watch really is, because personally I don't think it is.If you're going to spend this kind of money on a smartwatch, there are many examples of other companies doing it better for this price, and with that, I can't recommend this product.