16 de noviembre de 2023

Parafrasea y traduce esto al castellano: Garmin Venu 3 review: A tightrope walk between casual smarts and serious fitness

Parafrasea, extiende, elimina cualquier referencia a androidcentral, traduce al castellano y añade cabeceras donde haga falta. El resultado debe de estar en castellano. A partir de ahora el contenido sobre el que hacer lo solicitado: Garmin’s Venu lineup is a paradox: it’s a testing ground for its newest and most exciting features and upgrades, but also more generic than its siblings in an attempt to appeal to mainstream buyers. The Garmin Venu was its first AMOLED watch, the Venu Sq its first squircle design, and the Venu 2 Plus the first to add a mic & speaker. The Garmin Venu 3 follows that experimental template to a T.The Venu 3 announcement intrigued us with new tools like Sleep Coaching tech with nap detection, guided meditation, wheelchair mode, a smarter UI, and a revamped Elevate v5 sensor capable of ECG readings and skin temperature readings (though the latter is still dormant). It also snagged the mic and speaker from the Venu 2 Plus.At the same time, the Venu 3 lags behind comparably-priced Garmin watches for specific training tools while also falling behind your typical smartwatch for phone connectivity, cellular support, or general smarts. It’s a jack-of-all-trades but master of none. My Garmin Venu 3 review will try to speak to both potential audiences: Garmin fans considering the more mainline Venu over its specialized siblings and mainstream smartwatch users deciding whether to leave their Apple or Galaxy Watches behind to improve their fitness.Garmin Venu 3 (Black) at Amazon for $426.18Garmin Venu 3: Price and availability(Image credit: Garmin)The Garmin Venu 3 and Venu 3S launched in August 2023 for $450 / £450 / €499. Priced $50 higher than the Venu 2 series, it matches the Venu 2 Plus, which first added a mic and speaker to the Venu lineup. That means you should only consider it a price increase if you’re uninterested in Bluetooth calls and voice assistant commands.You’ll primarily find the Venu 3 on mainstream tech sites like Amazon, Best Buy, and Target, as well as enthusiast sites like REI and Crutchfield. Although new Garmin watches rarely go on sale for the first year or so, we’ve already seen the Venu 3 dip about $25 off, so keep an eye out for deals if you’re unwilling to pay full price. Garmin Venu 3: Design and bands(Image credit: Michael Hicks / Android Central)Garmin rarely rocks the boat with its watch designs. The Venu 3 looks very similar to your typical Forerunner, only about 1mm thinner and tapering down towards the sensor array more quickly. In other words, it’s less bulky and slightly more svelte than your typical Garmin watch, making it more comfortable for sleep tracking.Its three buttons, two less than the Garmin standard, trade their usual thick, plastic style for narrower metal buttons that look fantastic but lose usability. You have to be more deliberate in pressing them. The top and bottom buttons perform their usual Garmin OS functions, like starting a workout or backing out of menus, while the middle button has two customizable shortcuts for pulling up the assistant, music controls, or other tools.Generally speaking, the Venu 3 is slightly more touch-dependent than your typical Garmin due to the lack of Up/Down buttons, which can prove a bit of a problem during workouts if your fingertips get sweaty. For everyday use, the 1.4-inch touchscreen is quite responsive with beautiful screen transitions, but the lack of a crown or bezel does mean having to swipe through everything.(Image credit: Michael Hicks / Android Central)Most of the best Garmin watches use hardened plastic material that keeps the weight down and GPS signals flowing freely but gives them a somewhat cheap appearance from the side. The speaker slits on the left side also stand out starkly — at least on my Whitestone model. If you can fight your vanity, though, the Venu 3’s stainless steel bezel helps it look fantastic from the top down, so you’ll enjoy looking at it even if it isn’t a status symbol to others from the side.(Image credit: Michael Hicks / Android Central)Venu 3 buyers can choose between Silver bezel / Whitestone case & band and Slate bezel / Black case & band. Venu 3S buyers have more options: Slate with Pebble Grey, Silver with Sage Gray, and Soft Gold with French Gray, Dust Rose, or Ivory.Speaking of the Venu 3S, its display is 0.2 inches smaller and weighs 7g less. It lasts four days less in standard smartwatch mode — though the same five days in always-on display mode — and 5 hours less in GPS mode. All other features are the same, but you sacrifice battery and display space for comfort on smaller wrists.(Image credit: Michael Hicks / Android Central)Whichever you choose, one design choice I love with the Venu 3 is its Quick Release bands. You can slide a switch to draw a metal pin inward and remove each band half in seconds. Then, with your replacement 22mm or 18mm bands, you slide the same pin inward, slot the other metal end into a slot, and slot the first end out to attach it. Compared to Garmin watches that require a special tool to release their bands, it’s much more seamless. If I kept my Venu 3 as my daily driver, I would probably swap out my band fairly quickly. I wouldn’t say that I «hate the strap that comes with the Venu 3,» as my colleague Jerry Hildenbrand wrote in his recent Venu 3 hands-on, but it’s less comfortable than the default Forerunner strap with its thinner, softer silicone and wider lug holes. Generally speaking, I prefer companies prioritize breathability over style, while the Venu 3 took the opposite approach.Garmin Venu 3: Display(Image credit: Michael Hicks / Android Central)Garmin and many of its running watch rivals have shifted away from MIP and towards AMOLED displays in recent years, a trend only made possible because these new models can last for weeks without needing a dim, low-battery display. For the Venu series, which made the AMOLED switch ahead of the pack, it needed a new way to stand out. The key perk of the Garmin Venu 3 display is its narrow bezel compared to most running watches. You get a 1.4-inch display from a 45mm case, while the Venu 2 and Forerunner 265 only offer 1.3-inch displays at 45mm and 46mm, respectively. You’d be hard-pressed to get more visual space at this size. Garmin hasn’t publicized its nits of brightness, but I’d assume it’s about 1,000. That’s on par with most AMOLED fitness watches like the Fitbit Sense 2 but below the new 2,000-and-up you get on newer smartwatches like the Galaxy Watch 6 or Apple Watch Series 9. It’s bright enough to be fully visible in direct sunlight at the right angle, but I’ll note the same complaint I had with the Garmin Forerunner 265 AMOLED display: its Gorilla Glass 3 protection isn’t on par with the sapphire glass you get on many comparably priced fitness watches. I at least wish it had the GG 3 DX standard found on the Forerunner 965 for a better anti-reflective coating; without it, the Venu 3 display definitely catches the light more than I’d like.Garmin Venu 3: Hardware and sensors(Image credit: Michael Hicks / Android Central)Garmin watches traditionally lag behind most of the best Android watches or Apple Watches in sleep tracking and health sensors. The Venu 3 doesn’t completely close that gap, but it certainly comes closer to the mainstream than ever. Garmin continuously measures heart rate and heart rate variance for all-day stress data by default, and you can enable all-day blood oxygen tracking if you wish — something most other brands wouldn’t have the battery life to offer. You also have respiration rate and menstrual cycle data, plus the option to log hydration. That’s all fairly common for Garmin watches, but the Venu 3 adds an ECG sensor, only the second to do so after the Venu 2 Plus. We hope Garmin eventually adds passive AFib detection, but for now, the ability to take a 30-second heart rhythm reading at any time and check your past results in the Connect app is a great perk. Just keep in mind that you’ll need to update your Garmin watch, enable ECG readings in the Garmin Connect «Finish Setup» menu, and then add 2FA to your Garmin account to protect your data before you can find the ECG app on the watch.The Elevate v5 sensor also has dormant skin…