Garmin Venu 2 Plus, GPS Smartwatch with Call and Text, Advanced Health Monitoring and Fitness Features, Slate with Black Band

Buy this watch! Comparison to Fitbit Sense 2 and Garmin Venu Sq 2
Before I settled on the Venu 2 Plus, I tried Fitbit Sense 2 and Venu Sq2. So I’ll describe my experience with all here. All are great fitness and health tracking/monitoring watches, by the way. I was looking for a health tracking watch, as my days of endurance training is all but over, so my review will focus on the health tracking and smart watch features. Also, I was looking for a replacement for Apple Watch (for poor batter life and poor sensing accuracy) and previously owned Garmin Forerunner 220, Vivoactive HR, and Fenix 3 watches.Fitbit of course has the better designed phone app and generally easier to use interface. It’s a nice watch with great looking hardware. It definitely looks more like a fitness tracker than a watch, but that’s what some people might be looking for. If you are looking to do sleep tracking, it has smaller footprint and is more comfortable to sleep with. It did everything it promised to do quite well. I was particularly excited about the cEDA feature, but it was not as useful as I had expected (what is a “body response?”) At the end, the dealbreaker for me was the battery life. I wanted it for all the sensing features, but when you use the watch with most of the features on, you get no more than 2 days of batter life (not the 6 days advertised). My goal was to abandon the Apple Watch that only gets 18 hours, and this is not a major improvement for me.The Garmin Venu Sq 2 is also a very nice watch and has great HR, sleep, stress tracking, etc., very accurate GPS, and good batter life (5-6 days) in a small package. The design of the Connect app is not as user-friendly as the Fitbit app, and generally navigating both the phone app and the watch is not as smooth as the Fitbit of the Apple Watch. For example, the “glances,” controls menu, the watch face all look like they belong to different watches. Navigating across them isn’t as smooth. There was also a bit of a delay in the watch face appearing when I raised my arm. Perhaps 500 ms too late for it to feel like there isn’t a delay. Some of the forums said that it’s because of the 3rd party faces, but I had this problem even with Garmin faces. Finally, it was not as comfortable to sleep with on your arm as the Fitbit was. I also couldn’t find a watch face I liked from the Garmin designs. I then purchased the Totem Designs “Dash” watch face for $2.67, and I really loved it. Eventually, there were too many small things I didn’t like about the Venu Sq 2: discomfort, delay, etc.I was not hopeful that Venu 2 Plus was going to be much better than Venu Sq2, but I was pleasantly surprised. Its battery lasts 9 days with all the bells and whistles on. I tested this and got 6 days before the battery went below 30%, which is excellent. Charging it once a week is really a new concept for me coming from the Apple Watch. This watch also connects to your phone’s smart assistant. It’s a bit buggy. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. However, overall it’s a more comfortable, responsive, and all in all better watch. Although it’s a bit bulkier than Venu Sq 2, it is not less comfortable on my arm throughout the day or during sleep. Its screen responds right away. It’s a large, bright, crisp screen. The health metrics tracking is amazing, very accurate, very responsive. No more of Apple Watch’s “your heart rate was XX 37 minutes ago.” It measures it very accurately and very quickly. I didn’t know how much I was going to like the circular AMOLED screen, but it is a great screen. Being able to answer and (mostly) decline calls is a huge plus. I used the ECG sensor once, and it works as well as the one on the Apple Watch. I wake up in the morning, look through my sleep, HR at night and monitor HR, body battery, stress, steps/calories through the day. I got the Titan (analog) and Tempo (digital) watch faces from Totem Designs ($2.67 each), and they both look gorgeous. (You lose the ability to go directly to an app from a hard press on the widget, but the better design is worth it.) All in all, I am very happy with this watch and plan to keep it as long as it lasts!In conclusion, I was pleasantly surprised by Venu 2 Plus as health tracking watch with good smart watch features and would recommend it for people who are looking for these features!

Normalmente espero unas semanas con cualquier item electrónico para probarlo a fondo y escribir una reseña. Sin embargo, con este Garmin Venu 2 Plus, a los 2 días ya estaba fascinado! Antes que nada, este es el primer smartwatch deportivo que he tenido.Lo que hago principalmente de ejercicio es 5 días a la semana de gym y de 2 a 3 días de ir a correr. Por el momento, muy preciso para el tema de correr! Mide perfectamente bien distancias, tiempos, marca las vueltas, ruta, en fin todo lo que puedes necesitar. Para el gym, si depende del ejercicio que estés haciendo para que cuente bien las repeticiones, pero al final de cada set te permite ajustarlo rápidamente y poner el peso como registro, luego te comienza a tomar tiempo de recuperación lo que me parece excelente.En cuanto a la batería, me llegó un viernes por la noche con un 84% y, una vez actualizado y sincronizado, usándolo continuamente todo el fin de semana, incluido ir a correr un par de veces y luego al gym, para el lunes aún tenía 25% que en una hora cargando subió a 100%.Tiene muchísimas funciones para monitorear tu salud que me parecen muy útiles y que pueden ver más a detalle en la página de Garmin. La conexión con el teléfono me ha funcionado perfectamente para ver notificaciones y sincronizar la información.Aún me falta probarlo para pagar y al nadar, aunque en la regadera sin problemas y la pantalla aún mojada funciona a la perfección.En definitiva recomiendo esta versión (la encontré con promoción en Prime Day a $7,979) y únicamente estaré actualizando esta reseña si es que algo llega a fallar.

El reloj llegó en tiempo, es un reloj que no es grande pero tampoco peño, justo a la medida para una muñeca n tan delgada, diría que unisex. Cuesta un poco acoplarse al sistema operativo pero el manual esta entendible y puedes bajarlo de la pagina oficial a tu celular para tenerlo a la mano, la exactitud de los datos que otorga para los que mantenemos entrenamientos de micro y macro ciclos esta perfecto. Muy recomendable para el ejercicio y la vida diaria, es elegante y cuenta con múltiples pantallas gratuitas de la aplicación.Recomiendo ampliamente este reloj, yo copre loa extensibles de diferente color y es muy facil hacer el intercambio. La pila dura de acuerdo al uso, en lo particular me dura de 3 a 5 días por que tengo activadada la pantalla durante todo el día, así como el monitoreo de estrés, frecuencia cardiaca, y de hidratación, cuenta con una función de resumen de salud que mide estos 3 parametros en 2 minutos, ademas lo utilizo para rutina de GPS de 2 a 3 horas al menos 5 veces a la semana, en caso de no hacer estas actividades la pila puede durar facilmente toda la semana. La pantalla es táctil con buena sensibilidad y excelente resolución aunque estes en el sol, es fácil hacer llamadas y recibirlas. En resumen, lo recomiendo ampliamante, es elegante para el día y sus notificaciones y excelente para las funciones deportivas. Recomiendo colocar un protector para la pantalla por que auque es marca gorila glass si queda medio expuesta.

Lo único malo es que no se le pueden enviar mapas de wikiloc, pero eso fue mi error el modelo si lo dice, fuera de eso una excelente opción