The stigma in the market today is that if you want a decent sport watch or multi sport watch, you have to splash out a lot of dosh. When you think sport watch, you usually think the polar vantage, polar grit, maybe the sunto 7. What about the garmin fenix series, or maybe the garmin venu? But what? If I told you that you could get a garmin multi sport watch for half the usual price for a sport watch, please meet the garmin, the new sq and today i will be sharing the 10 secret weapons of this monster. If you are new to wesknows tech, news and reviews, we talk about the latest tech news. We do brutally honest reviews and share hacks and tricks along the way. The venue sq was released by garmin in september 2020 and it came in with a bang because it costs just 180 pounds or 200 bucks. It came into a very busy space where we have very sporty smart watches as well as budget sport watches, but it brings along the flagship frills of the garment venu, but with slight shortcuts being made and we’ll cover some of them just now to ensure that the Garmin venu stays the flagship of the venu and the venu sq. Some cut corners had to be made for the sq., such as the sq actually features a 1.3 inch lcd screen, so bye, bye, amoled because on the venu you do get a 1.
2 inch amoled display. We also lost the barometric altimeter. Now a gps one is used, garmin also removed the gyro sensors, as well as the live watch faces, but i can say that unless you are a pro athlete you will be very unlikely to notice any of the difference between the venu and the venu sq.. Well, except for the amoled screen and the live watch faces, of course, and now let’s kick off and cover the 10 secret weapons of the garmin. The new sq, the garmin venu SQ, combines the comfort and convenience of a fully touch activated display with two buttons on the right hand, side for additional efficiency. It has a simple but ergonomic design, 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 thick.. It weighs just ‘ grams and that’s feather light for a full, fledged multi sport, watch. sleeping in it and wearing non stop for long periods of time is just too easy. It’S mega comfortable on your wrist., the display is a double edged sword, but i actually see it as a positive because shortcuts have to be made so it’s, not amoled, but you still get a full color 1.3 inch lcd screen.. There are three brightness levels: let’s be fair, the colors do look more washed out than amoled screens, but the viewing angles are still excellent. There’S more than enough space for the menus and check it out when using garmin pay entering your four digit code is as easy as pie on this large screen for health.
Metrics it’s got an optical hr sensor for continuous heart rate, monitoring, with pulse ox, aka sp02 or blood oxygen saturation tracking. On the back. mind you, the pulse ox function on the garmin Venu SQ is not as simplistic as just on demand measurements. Oh no. It can actually track your continuous pulse ox during the night during the day or on demand, if you do need it. Just at a point in time. having your spo2 metrics continuously measured overnight, provides much more insight into your breathing patterns and respiratory health and can even forewarn of medical and lung conditions such as bronchitis, asthma and sleep apnea.. You also get dual gps on the garmin venu SQ, with galileo and glonass. The lock on is quick, and the signal holds steady for the length of your workout with onboard gps. You don’t require having your phone with you while cycling running or trail hiking and even open water swimming is possible because the watch is waterproof up to 50 meters.. Sleep monitoring is important as ever, and the garmin Venu SQ takes us to a whole new level. Not only does it monitor light deep and rem sleep, the garmin connect app shows a sleep stage timeline with overlays available for movement pulse ox aka sp02 and your breathing rate for a deep down analysis of your sleep patterns.. The garmin Venu SQ also brings about a very advanced feature called body battery, and, if you recall, we saw that on the polar ignite this body battery is smart tech that tracks the exercise you perform during the day looks at your heart rate, measurements, spo2 and prior Night’S sleep data: to give you a score that represents how much charge you have for the new day ahead.
. The great thing about this is that it’s not a screen that shows your day in retrospective it’s a live reading and at any time, during the day, you can see how much charge has drained and is remaining. what we usually don’t, see on a full on sport. Watch is smart features such as nfc. Well with the venu sq, you do get garmin pay. Contactless payments. with garmin pay is a joy to use register in the garmin connect app tapping the code on the watch face and off you go tapping away. I find this way more convenient than pulling out my bank card when i buy lunch, jump on the tube or pay for any other item under 40 quid.. The venu sq in front of us here today does not have music storage, just music controls to control music from your smartphone. So it saves you pulling the smartphone out of your pocket, but if you do spend 50 bucks more and get garmin venue, music sq, you will get 4gb allocated storage for music. notification management is something sport. Watchers are usually not very good at well. The venue skew has a surprise, it’s, actually very good at it. Unlike the budget, smart watches and sport watches, you get to see a list of your text and emails in the notification screen. These are color coded for different sources. The texts don’t disappear once you read them only if you clear the particular message or the full list.
Another major plus is that you get more rows of the text than the usual three to five rows. Seen on other brands., i’m sure you’ve heard of dedicated sport and coaching apps from other brands, well garmin, being the multi sports champion, offers a much more personalized approach. Helping you reach your running goals using garmin coach. You choose your running target b to run faster or longer or both or whatever you actually get to choose your coach. There are videos introducing the coach and their training methodology, tons of experience, qualifications and a practice routine in place, join the program and enjoy the downloadable structured, workout support with garmin coach. So you also get female health tracking. You also get access to one of the most complete wearable ecosystems in the world. You get access to garmin connect, iq you’ve got a myriad of watch faces there, apps widgets that you can download to your watch.. The venu SQ can also connect to ant and bluetooth. Sensors for your treadmills and gym workouts., just an fyi. We have actually done a full review of the venu sq as it was released in September 2020. So, if you do want to check it out, i will leave a link in the description below the video..t1VJmjtCW0A