Happy to be back with a long-battery life garmin watch, but in terms of features outside of battery life it is not better than Fitbit's sense/versa offerings.
Previously with fitbit, I had a better-than-average waking experience with the smart wake feature. For some reason Garmin doesn't include this, despite tracking all of the body data that would make it possible. Third party apps support the functionality somewhat, but at the cost of overnight body data tracking which in turn removes a lot of the body battery / etc feedback on the watch.
It is frankly embarassing that Garmin hasn't implemented this feature in 2023. If you're a busy person that doesn't always have a consistent bedtime then you'll need to find another alarm solution to make up for Garmin's feature oversight.
Currently wearing my older fitbit to bed to make up for this.
I switched from FitBit to Garmin because the FitBit features were lacking. I decided to go with Garmin instead of Apple because the Venu 3 has 7-10 day battery life where the Apple watch has at most 36 Hours. I do not want to have to charge it everyday. Since wearing the Garmin Venu 3 for about a month now, I am loving all the data that I get from the app. I also love how comfortable the watch is, the customization of the watch face and being able to do challenges with my husband!
It's a perfect smartwatch in every sense except for a few software issues that are mildly infuriating. For e.g. Using Voice Assistant on this watch is a hit or miss, mostly a miss.
It took me two days to get the clock face to pop up. I finally got it connectued to my phone and wifi. There is a lot of stuff that I do not know how to use. Last evening I was able to answer my phone with it. Dick Tracy here I come.
Yeah I will say I love garmin products a lot but this watch is amazing responding easy to navigate I like brightness of the screen features also battery just last forever . Just one little thing I had problems with a fénix watch couple months ago with cable for charge for some reason the dots on this watch just peel off and then it was no way to charge the watch the Venu3 also has the type of dots hopefully that same issue won’t happens with this one in a near future