hi everyone welcome to wesknows tech news and reviews! the skies have erupted and
yes it's raining, well what did we expect it's end of september in uk,
in london. but nonetheless the rain will not stop us from reviewing a new edition from garmin. the
garmin venu SQ and the SQ actually doesn't stand for square but it is squarish anyway. we'll tell
you all about it at this review of our first impressions. so i've had it on me for about a week
now and i'm mega impressed! it's got it all and it has actually undercut the apple watch series
SE as well as the fitbit versa 3 and the fitbit sense. I personally think it's better but anyway
watch the review and find out for yourself! if you are new to wesknows tech news and reviews, we talk
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so make sure to hit that subscribe button and bell notification so you don't miss out! this year,
though, in september so many new watches came out from the likes of huawei, honor, fitbit,
apple and also amazfit. now all of these are huge players in the smartwatch market! they all came
out with something new with a big bang but garmin took a sneaking approach and came out quietly in
a reserved fashion, with the sq. but it comes in with their skew at half the price of the original
venue and most of the functionality actually does remain from the original venu, but yes of course
shortcuts had to be made and we can see them straight away. so the design is more plain but
that's okay because you are paying literally half price. garmin has released the venu sq as well as
an sq music. right so the music one does allow you to store up to 4 gb of music on your watch as well
as connect with diesel or spotify. cool? very much indeed! but if we're looking at the SQ which we've
got in front of us today it's only a hundred and eighty pounds and that actually undercuts
the prices of fitbit sense, fitbit versa three and much more so, the apple watch series se as well as
series 6. now i strongly believe that this watch has much much more smarts as well as way more
well-being health and sport functionality so i will take you through the functionality today i
will talk about the design the display we'll talk about the pros and of course we'll also
touch upon the cons straight away i'll say yes it does look kind of plain doesn't it well that's
okay because on the inside it's a monster it's got a gazillion of tricks up its sleeve!
let's face it, it's square, in essence going back to the garmin vivo series roots. dimensions are
37 by 40 millimeters and it's only 11 millimeters high on your wrist. it's relatively light at only
39 grams. from personal experience though i've been wearing it non-stop for about six days the watch
shape is very ergonomic it's mega comfortable on my wrist. i really do forget that i'm wearing it
and by the way that makes sleeping it a pleasure rather than a chore! they've definitely been cut
corners in the design specs the bezel is plastic and we're subconsciously taken back to the cheaper
Amazfit smart watches looks. the two buttons on the side are also plastic, the lugs as well but
fear not! that's only at close inspection that the venu sq may look a bit budget, from afar and while
wearing the watch it looks businessy and serious. in fact that's what i like about it so much.
i'm wearing an elegant looking smartwatch but when i'm at the gym or in the pool or on my runs
the tame looking watch is disguising a true sport watch with awesome health and sport functionality!
let me know in the comments below what you think of this one so far. so on the original venu we did
have an AMOLED screen which was 1.2 inches in diameter now it's a 1.3 inch color lcd screen
with corning glass 3 so it is crash resistant to some extent unless you purposefully smash it
against walls it should be fine in the long term. i've heard many reviewers saying that
the screen looks a bit small the bezels are a bit thick.. well boo to you is what i have to
say! because really if we compare this to versa 2 these bezels are paper thin. there are three
brightness levels. let's be fair the colors do look more washed out than on the amoled screens but the
viewing angles are still excellent. there's more than enough space for the menus, so check it out,
when using garmin pay, as an example, entering your four digit code is easy as pie on the large screen!
there are downloadable faces available from garmin connect or just play with the preset ones and the
customization options are also familiar from the more pricier vivoactive and phoenix series.
you can choose the background, analog or digital time, choose your color and the accent designs,
and most importantly you can display the data you want to see on the forefront of your watch!
and by the way i will definitely be bringing in the watches from the likes of Huawei, Honor
Amazfit, fitbit and apple because i do want to show you that overpaying just for the brand
name is not the way to go! you have to look at what's underpinning this watch and it's all
about the functionality, the insides of this thing! let's discuss some of the functions and features
on the venu sq. so there's an optical hr sensor with pulse aux aka spo2 tracking on the back. mind
you it's not the simplistic on-demand tracking that we have seen in so many watches previously .
you can choose whether you want it on full day or at night or on demand. there's dual gps with
glonass and galileo options for workout tracking this is no amazfit a huawei, with all due respect,
the lock-on is very quick and the signal holds steady for the length of your workout. you also
get music storage and streaming with spotify and deezer! contactless payments with garmin pay is a
joy to use tap in the code and off you go spending your hard earned cash, there's also the respiration
rate monitor, stress tracking and a body battery. we actually saw this one on the polar ignite a couple
of months back. basically it's smart technology that tracks the exercise you performed during
the previous day, it looks at your heart rate, spo2 and sleep data to give you a score that represents how
much charge you have for the new day ahead. there's also the advanced sleep tracking including light,
deep and rem sleep monitoring. an awesome addition is the female menstrual cycle tracking-
you don't actually need the phone anymore you can set up the calendar using the watch face. when we
talk about the garmin ecosystem it's also very deep it's got absolute tons of widgets and apps
available that you can download to your watch you also have a number of faces that you can download.
there is so much you can do with the garmin as well as that, garmin is excellent at providing
value. true value, it's not going to charge you for using garmin coach it's not going to charge you if
you want to add new sport profiles to your watch face. i love the fact that garmin is acting quite
fairly in this regard. so you splashed up some dough, you actually bought the
watch. thank you very much! now we're going to give you these additional services on top.
i think that's a very fair approach! basically the "garmin venu sq" has got it all and more and the
best thing about it is that the battery life is also excellent. the claimed six days actually does
hold true because i have been using this for six days and i've only charged it a little bit
early morning today to get it ready for the review. by the way thank you to everybody who has
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