It was my understanding that the OS is unified between the 570 and Venu 4. I was looking at the new beta (16.11). When looking at the change logs, the venu 4 seems very sparse even though when spot checking, it does seem be getting the updates (for example - Supports the adventure race profile, Adds a floors climbed card to the evening report, etc)
How and where do we get notified of new settings if they are not in the change logs?
Thanks
Below are the change logs
Change logs for Venu 4 shows:
- Adds a glance that tracks your weight.
- Updates your training guidance with consideration to recent dives.
- If you forget to stop the timer at the end of a course, you can trim the activity using * the course finish point.
- Adds a glance that tracks battery life details and performance.
- Adds a glance for tracking your favorite sports teams.
Change logs for the Forerunner 570 shows:
- Adds a glance that tracks your weight.
- Adds more details to a course including cut-off times and aid stations.
- Updates your training guidance with consideration to recent dives.
- Adds a glance that tracks battery life details and performance.
- Adds a glance for tracking your favorite sports teams.
- Adds training plans that focus on timed workouts, cardio workouts, and optional strength workouts.
- Adds a glance to track how daily behaviors affect certain health metrics.
- Adds insights to the sleep glance for your ideal bed time and wake time.
- Adds color filters to the watch settings.
- Adds voice alerts to the watch settings.
- Adds an activity to record multiple sports in a row.
- Adds voice alerts when using a compatible radar device.
- Improves pace to be more responsive.
- Supports additional strength personal records.
- Adds smart notifications to the stage menu to allow notifications to be delayed until after the activity.
- Allows showing lap step speed loss and lap step speed loss percent as data fields on the lap banner.
- Supports the adventure race profile.
- Supports beginning navigation via a voice command.
- Adds the "Ripples" watch face.
- Adds additional alarm sounds.
- Adds a floors climbed card to the evening report.
- Adds help text for some settings.
- Fixes an issue that could cause a blank screen to appear after accessing the music player during an activity.
- Fixes some issues with volume adjustments to system tones.
- Fixes an issue that could result in excessive HRM 600 low battery alerts while swimming.
- Fixes an issue that caused the connected apps list to be slow to load.
- Fixes an issue that could cause garbled text to show in some languages when the device is connected to a computer.
- Fixes an issue that could cause partial failures when using Wi-Fi for uploads.
- Fixes an issue that could cause audio prompts to be incorrect for workouts with power targets.
- Fixes an issue that could cause a workout not to be marked as complete.
- Fixes an issue that could cause suggested workouts to be regenerated when the target type is changed.
- Fixes an issue that could cause watch faces not to be restored correctly after a backup.
- Fixes an issue that could cause the evening report to provide an inaccurate time for an upcoming race.
- Fixes an issue that could cause the evening report to incorrectly suggest a 12:15 p.m. bedtime.
- Fixes other minor issues.