The line between a smartwatch and a fitness watch continues to dissolve on a day-by-day basis. It used to be that if you were interested in fitness you’d get a dedicated, nondescript fitness tracker with a super basic dot-matrix display (I’m looking at you, Nike FuelBand). Then Apple came out with their watch, and I remember thinking how silly it sounded. I mean, I already had a smartphone — wasn’t a smartwatch a little redundant? Oh how the times change, and there’s no better example of watch evolution than the Venu from Garmin. The Venu is basically the same thing as the Vivoactive 4 — a multisport smartwatch that still has all the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections necessary for Android and Apple notifications. However, the Venu has a key difference in its display. The Venu’s 390 x 390 pixel AMOLED display blows the Vivoactive’s 260 x 260 MIP display out of the water. While their physical sizes are similar at 1.2 inches and 1.3 inches respectively, the Venu’s screen has a far crisper p...
AMOLED Display; Activity Tracking; Workout Animations; Loads of Sensors;
Lack of in-depth fitness metrics; Lack of storage;