Another Stupid Venu 3 update

Requests for new features and listening to them was never going to happen. Just check the forums of the first and 2nd Venu, which are filled with similar topics like this from years back.

You could have known before buying the Venu 3 that almost no new features would be added after launch. I'm not especially happy with it either, but if you bought this expecting something else to happen, you were fooling yourself or didn't look into Garmin's update policy closely enough.

PRK91 said:

Not sure who is buying the Venu X1

Maybe Garmin will offer a half-year Netflix subscription and find many buyers who want such a TV on their wrist. 

Not only they don't add new features, but they cut from the existing ones. It's been a while since bluetooth calls and voice assistant don't work...

I wonder if there's anything we can do considering that they don't manage to fix the issues. I personally got the Venu 3 over the FR265 for the calling feature and now I cannot use it...

I did the same mistake. Should have got the FR265, but got Venu 3 and I am hating it. Zero smart features, voice assistant feels like it's 2010.

I didn't know that there was a general issue with Bluetooth calls. I've succesfully answered 2 calls from my watch in the last 2 weeks, so there doesn't seem to be any issues on my end afaik.

I'm aware of the voice assistant issue, but I wasn't using that anyway. Regardless they should fix this issue. 

I wanted a device to handle phone calls and got venue, otherwise FR265 is better. Even the wheelchair mode is turned off completely useless, I use other profiles for wheelchair moving. Why also wheelchair user? Disabled person is the right word.When I swim I don't use a wheelchair!!!!!!!

Handling phone calls has been a nightmare for me on Venu 3 and I have disabled it like in a month after I purchased. Garmin does not listen to suggestions or feedbacks. My volume on Venu 3 used to go to zero everytime I pick a call and at full volume too sometimes the call is not audible and many more bugs regarding voice.

What is the Venu 3's focus? The Venu 3 isn't focused on anything... All other models in its price range have all the same health features (except ECG, which isn't available in much of the world). All other features like Body Battery, sleep, heart rate variability, pulse oximetry, respiration rates... Everything related to health is available in all other models. The Venu 3, however, is killed by its software. It offers almost no workout metrics, no automatic maximum heart rate detection, and almost no workout metrics. Some you only see in the Garmin app. A watch with great potential, equipped with the best Garmin has to offer, but Garmin itself kills the watch. It has nothing special for health monitoring, and even less for workouts. Garmin could implement new features and metrics for the Venu 3 for workouts; it doesn't need all the advanced metrics like the Forerunner line. You can't see your VO2 after workouts on the watch itself or in apps; you have to go to the settings to see it. It doesn't detect maximum heart rate; it only uses the standard 220 minus age, which leaves the zones out of date, because fitness is individual, not standardized. This means that heart rate zones are out of line with reality, and the watch misperceives effort, providing incorrect metrics and training information. These are things any sports watch should offer. It only monitors sleep at scheduled times; if it's time to sleep and you're out and about, or at a party, the watch can't interpret this—a very easy thing to do—and starts monitoring sleep. If you disable sleep programming, it also stops monitoring sleep even if you manually switch to sleep mode. In other words, there are a thousand things that need to be improved, and all of this with a simple software update.

The forum has little visibility. It doesn't bother... All Venu 3 users should go to Garmin's social media and fill every post with these complaints. That's what I'm doing.