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garmin venu problems

I am seriously thinking of selling the Garmin Venu
I come from a Samsung Active 2 and the truth is that garmin I see several shortcomings that I will list.
1) You cannot enlarge the notifications fonts.
2) It does not give me hydration alerts, even if I configure it.
3) Comparing heart rate readings I see no difference with samsung.
4) I like the measurement of oxygen saturation but it is unusable because the battery consumes it very fast.

5) Third-party watchfaces take 3 seconds to show up when you turn the wrist

I would like to know your opinion and if anyone had the 2 watches

0 usmaak over 4 years ago

I had an Active 2 for about a month. It was a nice watch if you're not into fitness. It didn't work out well for me. The GPS was about as poor as it gets. It got to the point where I just stopped wearing it because it was so awful. It did have much nicer notifications and overall it was much more polished than the Venu. The Garmin OS is clunky and sort of cruddy.

If I didn't want fitness features, I would have gone with the Active 2. Because I want features like reliable GPS, I stuck with Venu.

0 FernandoDorr over 4 years ago in reply to usmaak

The GPS was fixed in an update.

I like garmin Spo2

0 usmaak over 4 years ago in reply to FernandoDorr

I heard that rumor when I had it, but it wasn't true. I had the latest update and the GPS was still very badly off. Unless they've fixed it in the last couple of months.

0 FernandoDorr over 4 years ago in reply to usmaak

Yes they fixed. You have to put accurate in the settings too.