Garmin's new indoor and gym watches (look hot!)

NorthCascades
NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
I'm recovering from a collapsed lung, the respiration tracking would have been off great interest to me. I don't know whether it would be helpful but the ER gave me a plastic chamber device to measure my breath volume, and it's painful to use.

This new line of watch uses a much higher resolution OLED instead of transflective display, which means more beauty and now battery use. Apparently the battery has been beefed up to compensate.


Venu’s 1.2-inch OLED touchscreen plays host to live watch faces and dozens of animated workouts that demonstrate proper form and technique for activities such as strength training, cardio, yoga, and Pilates. It also features Garmin’s broad range of around-the-clock health monitoring features, including new hydration tracking, new respiration tracking, stress and menstrual cycle tracking, and pulse ox sleep tracking whereby the watch measures the oxygen saturation in your blood to determine how well you’re sleeping. Venu will alert you to notifications on your iOS or Android phone and is compatible with Spotify, Deezer, and Amazon Music. It also comes loaded with Garmin Pay contactless payments.

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/9/5/20848816/garmin-venu-vivoactive-vivomove-gps-sport-watch-price-date-specs

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  • tlpina82
    tlpina82 Posts: 229 Member
    Garmin is awesome and those watches look insane.
    I wish they could come up with a middle ground.

    While I love the idea of a "prettier" looking display, the transflective display is SOOOOOO good in the sun.
    The brighter the weather, the better the display looks and since most of my fun is outdoors, the OLED displays would really suck.

    Thanks for posting the link.
  • scorpio516
    scorpio516 Posts: 955 Member
    FYI - the Venu is just a Vivoactive 4 with a pretty screen ;) . That screen is a $50 up charge.

    The VA4 and VA 4S got announced yesterday too. the 4S is smaller and that's all. All three vivoactives have optical HR and music standard:
    https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/643382/pn/010-02174-11#
    Both regular screen 4 retail for $350, the Venu is $400
    https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/643260

    The Venu is slightly smaller than the 4 (30.4mm vs 33mm) but much bigger than the 4S (27.9mm)

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