Review on Garmin Venu: Gold GPS Smartwatch with Bright Touchscreen Display, Music, Body Energy Monitoring, Animated Workouts, Pulse Ox Sensor and More – Black Band by Troy Kocur

I have been using Garmin watches for ten years now and trust me when I tell you to save your money with this watch. I had the original Vivoactive (square) and loved it. I had a Vivoactive 3 and it was very buggy for the first 6 months but then it got better. until a software update resulted in less than half the battery life compared to before. So I decided to switch to this one. This stupid watch CONSTANTLY disconnects from my phone and only reconnects if I repeat each troubleshooting step multiple times. (Imagine removing the watch from the phone and the phone from the watch, and then turning the watch and phone off at the same time and turning them on again and again until they finally pair. Every day.) The screen is super bright. but then there are only a few nice watch faces, and the nicest one (the one in the main images) isn't customizable. What a waste! Also, it's even more annoying that the "dark gray" watch is blue. Definitely not grey. This watch didn't impress me at all. It will keep coming and I think I'll just keep using the ever dying VA 3 until I find something better.