less than 2 years and no more new feature update compared to VA6

socorsu 3 days ago

Hi,

VA6 is receiving it's first beta version, with a changelog introducing new features, some of them are already available on the VA5 (and Venu 3) but is it the start of the end ?

https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/healthandwellness/f/vivoactive-6-series/411070/beta-program-is-starting

Added support for Table Tennis activity
Added support for breathing variations data in sleep glance
Added support for Garmin Share app
Fixed issue where animations would sometimes get stuck partway through

0 8631577 2 days ago

very possibly.garmin rudelessly reject va5 users' request for updates.they even delete my posts in which i argue for ANT+ bike power sensor support(ridiculously VA6 didn't support it either)

0 Vizi 2 days ago

Welcome to Garmin, the vendor that wants users who want new features to buy a new watch every year (or even more frequently).

As I said before, Vivoactive 5 and Venu 3 are dead on arrival from feature support point of view - those watches never received significant (if any) feature updates, so users would have to buy new watches to get new features.

Vivoactive 6 is illustrative example - it is same as vivoactive 5 hardware-wise just with different software features. If Garmin wanted, they could update Vioactive 5 with those features insteead of releasing Vivoactive 6. But that is not how they operate. Garmin even stopped feature updates for Fenix 7 and Epix watches only 18 months after release of their pro versions. If they treat their premium customers like that, no wonder they treat Vivoactive customers like this.