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 It doesn't detect maximum heart rate; it only uses the standard 220 minus age, which leaves the zones out of date, because fitness is individual, not standardized.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.
