Customer reviews from Garmin
Garmin - Refurbished Excellent - Venu 3 GPS Smartwatch 45 mm Fiber-reinforced polymer - Stainless Steel and Black - (2023)
Average customer rating
4.4
(869 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 869 reviews
5 Stars
581
4 Stars
162
3 Stars
72
2 Stars
28
1 Star
26
Customer Reviews for Garmin - Refurbished Excellent - Venu 3 GPS Smartwatch 45 mm Fiber-reinforced polymer - Stainless Steel and Black - (2023)
Customer Rating
5
Big improvement
on December 1, 2024
Posted by: 2000
Coming from a veloactive4, which worked just fine but the screen on the venu3 is so much better. Watch screen changes feel smoother as well. This just navigates and feels like a phone. Less guessing to find what you want. Great watch!
Written by a customer while visiting Garmin
Customer Rating
5
Perfect Watch
on November 29, 2024
Posted by: Ignatz
Does everything I need to do, plus I can store my own music on it and not have to rely on streaming music.
Written by a customer while visiting Garmin
Customer Rating
5
A really great watch.
on November 28, 2024
Posted by: Topdog71
I wore the Garmin Vivoactive 3 for many years and decided to upgrade. I chose the Venu 3 and I am so glad I did. This watch is packed with fitness and health data. I love the sleep information I get every morning. I could go on and on. I seem to discover something new every day. If you want to improve your exercise and fitness programs get this watch.
Written by a customer while visiting Garmin
Customer Rating
2
Not a good match for an iPhone user
on November 27, 2024
Posted by: Jamie N
from Springfield, OH, US
I went from an Apple Watch to this watch, the Apple Technology is way smarter, and more user friendly. The look is wonderful, but it just lacks the ability to use apps with an iPhone. If you have another brand of phone maybe it would be a better option.
I unfortunately cannot return this watch so I am very disappointed.
Written by a customer while visiting Garmin
Customer Rating
5
Awesome watch!
on November 24, 2024
Posted by: JBriggs
Perfect balance between a sportwatch and a smartwatch! Does a great and accurate job tracking all my activities! Also lets you get text and email notifications, and allows you to answer calls on your watch as long as your phone is connected. Great battery life! I get about a week or more with daily use. I had the Forerunner 965 witch gave you a ton of activity information but little smartwatch features. I traded it in the Venu 3! It was just what I was looking for! You won't be disappointed!
Written by a customer while visiting Garmin
Customer Rating
2
The features was nice but
on November 24, 2024
Posted by: Jbv316
I bought the venu 3 a few months ago it has everything I needed and more but yhe build quality felt cheap the buttons were like sponge when you pressed them and the app is a little clutered not at all what I expected im still on
the search for the perfect watch so to be continued
the search for the perfect watch so to be continued
Written by a customer while visiting Garmin
Customer Rating
4
Best watch I've owned
on November 22, 2024
Posted by: TedETGbiz
As a kid I used to dream of a fancy aviator style watch... but could not afford what I wanted. Decades later the Venu 3 is all that & much more:
- good accuracy for many of the measurement metrics
- an impressive array of exercise tracking choices
- long battery life with the right settings
- many interesting watch face choices
- a great way to compare my health/exercise profile with other men my age
The main reason I got it was sleep tracking, and it has indeed prodded me to get more sleep.
- good accuracy for many of the measurement metrics
- an impressive array of exercise tracking choices
- long battery life with the right settings
- many interesting watch face choices
- a great way to compare my health/exercise profile with other men my age
The main reason I got it was sleep tracking, and it has indeed prodded me to get more sleep.
Written by a customer while visiting Garmin
Customer Rating
3
Unique but with flaws
on November 22, 2024
Posted by: AlexVanStalker
The watch has more health and fitness features than Apple Watch. Body Battery, Stress, Sleep Coach (+Naps) and Morning Reports are superb!
Have to spend quite a lot of time customizing watch face, use a ConnectIQ paid options but customization process I the app is very complex and long. It would be nice to change all settings on watch itself in live mode like on Fenix 8 built in faces. That's minus one star.
Second flaw is bugs. The interface is slow overall, but it also can hang or the screen can go black but buttons are working, sound presents. There are usability bugs like when start a nap, DND isn't turning On by default - one problem, second - if you get a notification in Nap mode, you cannot do anything with it, it just sticks on the screen, and if you get ten messages they will just stack and the watch is buzzing which kills the Nap mood.
I think they'll fix those bugs after a while but the watch is there for a year already which is strange.
Have to spend quite a lot of time customizing watch face, use a ConnectIQ paid options but customization process I the app is very complex and long. It would be nice to change all settings on watch itself in live mode like on Fenix 8 built in faces. That's minus one star.
Second flaw is bugs. The interface is slow overall, but it also can hang or the screen can go black but buttons are working, sound presents. There are usability bugs like when start a nap, DND isn't turning On by default - one problem, second - if you get a notification in Nap mode, you cannot do anything with it, it just sticks on the screen, and if you get ten messages they will just stack and the watch is buzzing which kills the Nap mood.
I think they'll fix those bugs after a while but the watch is there for a year already which is strange.
Written by a customer while visiting Garmin