Garmin Venu SQ Music Edition Smartwatch with Heart Rate Monitor - Large - Sand/ Rose Gold

I was looking for a watch to track sleep and SpO2 in addition to outdoor activities. For sleep it had to be light and comfortable to wear to bed. The Venu Sq is one of the lightest smartwatches I've worn and the silicon band is very comfortable so it's easy to sleep with. It has a pretty simplified screen but has a lot of features. The GPS performance is quite good and and for a MTB ride in valleys and trees it performs on par with the much larger Garmin fenix 6Pro. Loading additional exercise modes, music and clockfaces isn't the easiest, but once it's set up everything works great. For such a small and lite watch it is really packed with features.

Two days in and I really like the watch. Pros: Size and shape (square makes it easier to get a text message on the screen) Screen colors look good. Easy music set up and headphone pairing, took no time at all to get my Spotify playlist on the watch and headphones connected. Cons: Settings menu only available on watch itself. Why can't this all be found on the phone app? Battery is down to 40% after 1.5 days with 30 minutes of gps. (I have been tweeking settings and getting it set up so this may not be reflective of daily use) Lack of watch faces, patience is hard. =D Text size. Can you please make this adjustable, my eyesight isn't getting better with age..

I bought this to record high intensity workouts for the health program through work. The battery life is good and it's comfortable. The strength app isn't super easy or intuitive to use but I like that I can edit workouts later. The one major feature missing for me is a medicine tracker (did I take it today, not a reminder). I have to record 1 second of martial arts every morning to remember if I took my pill. Even if I could add a custom type of workout that would satisfy it. I also wish it could dynamically set an alarm based on where you are at in your sleep cycle around the time of your normal wake-up time.

I find that the watch often will disconnect from my phone, even when I have my phone next to me, so I know it’s not because my phone is too far and out of range from my watch. And the strength function on the watch could be made more user friendly. I’d like to be able to set it and have it just run while I’m lifting weights, but you have to constantly stop it, input the reps and weight in between reps, and then do everything all over again for your next set. I also wish the app was more user friendly too. I switched to the garmin from the Fitbit because the garmin has more functions than the Fitbit, however the Fitbit was a lot more user friendly than I’m finding the garmin to be.

I got this after being fitbit user for last three years. Pros: length of baterry, ability to turn off and on, pre programmed apps, blue tooth. Cons, I got because I love to run, spotify app sucks. Period. It forced you to be tide to wifi connection. Whats the point to add more if it will not allow you to hear using bluetooth technology. Once you open it, you need to download garmin IQ, Garmen express to ensure all apps work without complication. We need to do something better, i think Ill return it by not meeting basic needs of modern era. Get it done Garmin staff.... make it change, quick!!!!