Talk me into a Fenix over a Venu as a first timer :Newbie

Former Member over 4 years ago

I am a newbie into the smartwatch world. I finally want to get one. I love wearing traditional watches so it’s time I get something useful. I just can’t believe how many there are on the market but I want to stick to a Garmin as I know it has a good name behind it. Plus I love the round face.

after days and days of reading reviews and forums and watching YouTube I have narrowed it to the Venu ( yes I would rather spend a bit more than the vivoactive purely for a nicer more stylish screen). The Fenix 6s looks absolutely WOW but I don’t know I can justify spending the few hundred dollars more.

my main reasons for the Fenix are

1: longer battery

2: I really love the white and rose gold

3 smaller watch face I’m female and have a smaller wrist

surely these are solid enough reasons. I know the Fenix has a whole bunch of extra things I just don’t think I will use them. I want something I can wear day in day out that I’m not worried about breaking or damaging. I exercise daily I do F45 and want to pair it with my HR belt for that. I also occasionally run/walk. Other than that I want to see notifications from my phone and that’s about it. I understand the phone has to be close by for that to work.
I am just struggling to justify the $900 AUD price tag for the fenix 6s for essentially something heavier with a bunch of features I know I won’t use. I don’t need to map runs and store them on my phone. I would like to track my calories though when walking the dog and possibly listen to some Spotify with my wireless earphones but I understand both can download playlists.
Anyone willing to chip in and help?

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0 spucky over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

Yes it is the largest Fenix, not for everyones wrist.

My wife thought about the Fenix 6s as well. But she never used to wear any watch or other jewelry.
She had the Fitbit Blaze before for three years and she wanted to have similar in size.

6s is not much largher, but thicker and it look larger with the buttons around.

She only says the battery life could be longer, but then i told her that my 6X is not a reference (i am doing 30 days in watch mode with one charge)

Finally she's using the VA4s sine November and never had issues with it. She loves having the extended sleep tracking and especially the body battery feature because she's fighting against some allergy currently

Hope it helped a bit. Yes, the Fenix is "better" but it's a bit of "i need it" vs. "I want it"

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to spucky

You have been a huge help Thankyou, especially having a comparison with your wife. I think it’s a strong case of “want” and “need” in my case. I don’t think I can justify it based on a longer battery. The downside is the thickness to be honest. For someone not used to it too. Charging I don’t think would be as much of an issue either throwing it on the charge for a few hours while watching tv or not doing much. I think I’m leaning more to the Va4 to be honest now. Maybe in a few years if I really utilise everything I can justify it. I am also leaning a bit more away from the Venu too. As lovely as the screen oooks in AMOLED I am not sure the extra $70Aud is worth it. I know it’s under utilised, I will need to keep “waking it up” to get a visual or else leave it in always on and drain the battery faster. It’s a shame they didn’t do a better job on it. Having had nothing I am sure the VA4 screen will still be fine. I was worried in reviews I had watched it looked dark and hazy I would hate to have to keep flicking on the backlight

Seems you have All helped me immensely

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

You can get a good deal on a Fenix 5S right now. Quite a bit less then the 6. I just bought a Fenix 5+ titanium for $499 and love it.