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Garmin Venu 2 Plus hands-on: Garmin’s best smartwatch yet
Garmin’s latest watch is trying to bridge the gap between a true fitness watch and smartwatch. Spoiler alert: It’s pretty darn good. It now comes with a speaker and microphone so you can talk to your voice assistant, take quick calls and even play music from your wrist. Read more about the Garmin Venu 2…
JogBird
January 5, 2022 at 7:14 pm
ive managed to be fit and active my whole life without a smartwatch
Buc_Odie
January 5, 2022 at 7:23 pm
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R S
January 5, 2022 at 7:22 pm
Qi wireless charging ?
Lexy Savvides
January 5, 2022 at 7:41 pm
No just Garmin’s standard 4-pin charger
Dayner
January 5, 2022 at 7:30 pm
Trash
Liad Sagi
January 5, 2022 at 7:31 pm
GW4 is ~200USD, you can buy 2 and have 50 bucks spare
Tiago Thinks
January 5, 2022 at 10:07 pm
And even with the two you’ll still have to charge em before the venu 2 plus 😂
Milan Zarkov
January 5, 2022 at 8:04 pm
Bixby? LOL
Kent C
January 5, 2022 at 8:10 pm
Does anyone know if this would be good as a fitness tracker for a wheelchair user?
Josef Alejandrino
January 5, 2022 at 8:22 pm
Lexy is one of the few tech reviewers that actually understands the value of a smartwatch and can do a proper review of one
Dave M
January 5, 2022 at 8:23 pm
Just buy an Apple Watch
dale Webb
January 5, 2022 at 10:07 pm
Apple is crap! Have to download too many apps for best of that watch, garmin is better and cheaper
Dave M
January 5, 2022 at 10:48 pm
@dale Webb starting price of $450!? You can literally get a Apple Watch series 7 for 50 dollars cheaper lol
Ondra Wilson
January 6, 2022 at 1:19 am
@dale Webb my Garmin is $1k and doesn’t do half of what my Apple Watch does. You’re essentially paying for the name
Øystein Heimstad
January 5, 2022 at 8:23 pm
Yet another watch making the iwatch look like a toy 😀
Francis Manga
January 5, 2022 at 8:36 pm
Watching this on my Samsung Galaxy Watch 4
Tiago Thinks
January 5, 2022 at 10:06 pm
I have the watch 4 and I’m mostly liking returning it and grabbing the venu 2 plus!
James Ryan
January 5, 2022 at 8:45 pm
Ty Lexy, Do you know if there are any new fitness functions? PacePro on the Garmin forerunner 55 is compelling for running only and the Apple Watch for everything else. I am waiting for the Fenix 7 line to release before getting a running only watch. The article tied in nicely with the video, I’d really like the Apple Watch to play tunes without Bluetooth headphones like that as well and fully get that.
Tiago Thinks
January 5, 2022 at 10:05 pm
No pacepro bro. 😜
James Ryan
January 6, 2022 at 12:37 am
@Tiago Thinks hmmm, it’s a pretty important function. They must be diversifying the watches, looks like it’s worth waiting a little longer
Tiago Thinks
January 6, 2022 at 12:43 am
@James Ryan basically all the fitness functions on the venu 2 can be found on the plus. I hear the Fenix 7 will be announced before March. I personally think the Venu 2 Plus has everything I need. I just ordered mine today. I also have been testing out Samsungs watch 4 and I’m really liking it.
Dami Fash
January 5, 2022 at 9:09 pm
Was really paying attention and admiring the watch till heard that price 😂
I got my watcg SE for about $220
whatthewhat?
January 5, 2022 at 9:27 pm
I have the Garmin Vivoactive 4. The pulse oxygen meter doesn’t work 99% of the time and when it does, it’s way off. If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn’t.
Francesco Varrato
January 5, 2022 at 9:50 pm
Did you really say “music storage”? Wow :-
Tiago Thinks
January 5, 2022 at 10:07 pm
Yeah, that’s an awesome feature. You can have up to 650 songs on the device and go for a run without your phone. It’s awesome!
Rory Leighton
January 5, 2022 at 10:10 pm
So you have to have a phone near by to take calls or reply to messages and you can’t use the assistant to control the watch?? Doesn’t sound very well thought through tbh, the regular Venu 2 sounds way more sensible.
James Rogers
January 5, 2022 at 10:28 pm
This looks better than any Apple Watch
C Alvz
January 5, 2022 at 10:36 pm
Lexy make a video on the Amazfit GTR 3 Pro, it’s very similar to this if not better but costs less
김창언
January 5, 2022 at 11:05 pm
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Evan Rodgers
January 5, 2022 at 11:51 pm
Garmin secretly makes the best range of smartwatches available.
Kaveman _
January 6, 2022 at 12:27 am
Great review 🙂
My DJI Flight's
January 6, 2022 at 12:49 am
finally Garmin sent this new release watches to some body with android phone to test and review it. like always nice presentation.