Garmin debuts Venu 3 series

Garmin has just announced the Venu 3 and Venu 3S GPS smartwatches.

Designed to help individuals achieve their wellness goals, it’s equipped with comprehensive health and fitness insights, stunning AMOLED touchscreen displays, and remarkable battery life.

Better health tracking

Taking care of your overall wellbeing is more than just monitoring your heart rate variability. The Venu 3 series, with up to 14 days of battery life, tracks heart rate, respiration, pulse ox, stress, and body battery energy levels 24/7.

It also comes with a sleep coach that tracks your different sleep stages and a nap detection tool that automatically log your quick snoozes throughout the day. In the morning, it comes with a ‘morning report’ to give you an overview of sleep, recovery, HRV status, and more. The same feature is also evident in Garmin’s high-end smartwatches.

Pursue your fitness goals

With an improved Body Battery monitoring, fitness enthusiasts can find the best times for activity and rest. The smartwatches rate the perceived exertion from a workout, and indicates how much time is needed to recover.

The Venu 3 series also lets you keep tabs on your daily steps, calories burned, floors climbed, and monitor your workouts.

It has a free Garmin Coach adaptive training plans for those training for a 5K run, along with the ability to create own workouts from more than 1,600 exercises in the Garmin Connect app.

There are also preloaded animated workouts for strength, HIIT, Pilates, and Yoga right from the watch.

Sports for all

The Venu 3 series comes with more than 30 built-in sports app that tracks every movement. From cycling, walking, running, swimming, and even activities for wheelchair users.

With wheelchair mode, the smartwatches track daily pushes and receive weight shift alerts. It also has wheelchair-specific sports apps and workouts. Garmin modified the algorithm of some existing features to make wellness tracking inclusive to wheelchair users.

Stay connected

What’s a smartwatch if you can’t connect, right? The Venu 3 series has a built-in speaker and microphone, allowing individuals to make and take calls right from the watch when paired with a compatible smartphone.

A smartphone’s voice assistant can also be used to respond to text messages and more. For Android users, photo messages can be previewed quickly.

Safety and security is also at its core, allwoing the user to send a message using live location to chosen emergency contacts.

Moreover, it comes with essential Garmin features such as Garmin Pay, Connect IQ, and music playback using Spotify, Amazon Music, and Deezer for phone-free listening.

Price, availability

The Garmin Venu 3 and Venu 3S GPS smartwatches starts at PhP 28,250. Both wearables are now available at Garmin’s official online channels and retail partners.