hi everyone Abby here and welcome back to my channel for tech tuesday or
welcome if you're new today i'm going to be reviewing the garmin venu sq music but before i
get started make sure to hit that subscribe button if you're not already subscribed so you can stay
tuned to all my new videos dropping weekly and so you can help the channel grow so i have done a
full unboxing on this watch so if you've missed it and you want to see that you can find that
on the top right or in the description below so i have this watch in the color light sand rose gold
and it did come out in some other great colors which you could see on screen
so the prices as of recording are 249.99 Canadian and 199.99 American and this watch has been out
for a while now guys it did come out in 2020 and because of that we do see it go on sale
quite frequently which is fantastic because you can definitely grab it at a great price
all right guys so this is what it looks like on me and i do have a seven inch wrist
and i've gone ahead and placed all of the sizes this can fit on screen for you guys
if you're interested in that information venue sq here does come with a silicone band
and i personally find this band very comfortable to wear all right guys now i'm going to go into
the major highlights about this watch so the venue sq here has a lcd display
touch screen operation a 20 millimeter quick release watch band it has a quoted battery life
up to six days it has built-in gps glonass wi-fi bluetooth the version here the music edition has
music storage ability and it's compatible with spotify deezer amazon music water rating up to 5
atm so you can wear this thing in the pool if you want to swim with it in the shower in the rain
has built in pulse ox so you can get your blood oxygen saturation it has 24 hour heart
rate tracking women's health monitoring alarms timers stop watches stress tracking
it tracks a variety of activities such as running yoga walks swimming it also tracks your daily
metrics like your steps calories burned your distance walked past the weather and more now
these are not all the features about this watch but these are some of the most important i think
all right guys so now i'm going to talk about the display so
we have an lcd display on this watch and with that we do see some nice bold colors on here so
this is what the display looks like indoors under some light ink and now i'm going to go outside so
you can see what it looks like there all right guys so this is what it looks like outdoors in
natural lighting under the sunlight and i definitely do find it pretty easy to read
one thing to note about the lcd display here though is that it is quite reflective so you
definitely do need to pump up the brightness a bit when you are outside in sunlight
all right guys now i'm going to show you the watch faces i currently have on here i'm just going to
kind of swipe along so you guys can see what they look like so it did come with a variety of options
there are only a few that are kind of like you know bright bold colors a lot of them are very
plain this one i did download from the app if you do want to know the name of this watch face you
can just you know drop that in the comments below and i'll let you know and there's an example of
this one more of an analog watch face all right guys i have the garmin connect iq app open and
i'm just showing you guys some of the watch faces that are compatible with the venue sq music and sq
and as this watch has been out for a while there are a lot of options on here
typically the older smart watches have more watch faces than the new ones
so now i'm going to go into how to use this watch the basics here so the first thing i'm going to
show you guys is how to wake up the screen so you have three different options one you can press
either of these buttons to wake up the screen two you can tap on the display just double tap it
and three if you have the raise to wake function on you can just basically turn it towards your
face and the screen will wake up so once you have the display open you can choose to swipe
up or down and doing so is going to show you your daily metrics like your steps your heart
rate your calories burned and then you can just swipe through and see everything and here is the
hydration tracking widget where you can go ahead and track your amount of water that you drink
another thing you can do is hold the top button to open up your control panel
and here we have a bunch of shortcuts for things another thing you can do is press
the bottom button here to go back if you press the top button once you're going to open up your
activity menu once you get to your activities you can go ahead and start an activity so these are
all of my activities like my most used ones anyway but you can go ahead click here and see the rest
i believe there's about 20 activities currently on here and to start an activity it's very simple all
you do is just press the button and then you press this to start so if you swipe right from the home
screen you can see your shortcut for me that's alarms and then if you hold the bottom button here
you're going to open up your settings so here we can change our watch faces we can look at history
and that's the basics of how to use this watch
so i'm going to show you guys an example of what a text message looks like on here
so it just pops up basically on whatever screen you're at and then you can go ahead and scroll
through it if it's longer and read it and you can call the person back it's going to call
them on your phone you can reply you can block or you can dismiss so if you hit reply you can
choose one of these pre-made responses and you can edit them in the garmin connect app
and then when you're ready you can just send it and it will send it to your phone so this
is the music version watch and you can add music depending on your wi-fi connection and the size of
your music files or your podcast whatever you're downloading it can take a varying amount of time
and it definitely uses a good amount of battery to get music on here when you are putting music
on i would definitely recommend plugging it in so your battery doesn't die you know part way through
so it has a quoted battery life of up to six days as a smart watch so with
my uses which i have on screen things like gps walks and runs daily alarms timers and more
i've gotten on average four days of battery life from this watch now for me that's okay
i definitely do like when watches have more battery life i think this could fit well into
a lot of people's lifestyles i think most people would be okay with charging a watch like once or
twice a week instead of charging it daily which we find from some other smart watches
and keep in mind guys you know what i get for battery life can be different from what you
get battery life is something that definitely varies depending on the person and their usage
all right guys so the next thing i'm going to go into is women's health
so if you are a male or someone else who doesn't want to see this section
you can definitely go ahead and use my time stamps and skip to the next section
where i'm going to be talking about sleep tracking all right so for women's health we do have a built
in women's health widget so when you're actually on your period you can go ahead and
track your flow intensity so there's light medium heavy so here are physical symptoms
and any time if you are feeling any of these you could just go ahead for example
and you can click one and then you go to the bottom and you click on done and that's going
to show up kind of on your main page now we can also track your mood i say this you know a lot
but i love that garmin really gives you a bunch of different mood options because you know our
moods are complex we're not just happy or sad you can be emotional you can be overwhelmed
so i like to see all of these options here for mood and then you can also track discharge
sex drive
and you can say if you're ovulating when you're on your period there's like a little green thing here
but if the watch you know for some reason got it wrong you can definitely change that on the app
and when you go in the garmin connect app you see the same information
um you're just getting you know some pictures instead of just the words and you can track
everything on your watch or on your phone and on the phone you'll find your period prediction
all right guys now i'm going to talk about sleep tracking or lack thereof so this watch
is supposed to have advanced sleep tracking where you can just wake up in the morning
and see your time asleep you can see a graph of your sleep stages all that stuff but
i've had this watch for almost a month now guys and there has been no sleep tracking it has never
worked for me not once and i've reset the customer service they couldn't find an issue i've got on
the garmin forms and a bunch of people are having this issue with the garmin venue sq and sq music
so i don't know if there's like a recent glitch that came out or if the seat tracking just didn't
work from the beginning because this is my first time having this watch but i will tell
you that i have not been able to track my sleep not once with this watch i've never had this
issue with any other garmin watch that has sleep tracking so it definitely was disappointing to me
to not be able to track my sleep at all with this watch also i'm going to be coming out
with a full comparison on the garmin venue sq here to the garmin venue 2s so if you
guys are interested in seeing that make sure to subscribe to the channel so you don't miss that
all right guys so considering the price the quality the color the performance the battery
life the accuracy and everything like that i would go ahead and give this a 7.3 out of 10.
i definitely do give it a thumbs up so if you guys are interested in getting the garmin venue sq
music here i've gone ahead and left the link down in the description for you to use
and if there's anything i missed today that you want to know just go ahead and drop a
comment below thanks for watching guys and make sure to like comment and subscribe bye