Our Overall Score:
8.9/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our Venu review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if Venu is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Smart watches category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £299
You are here of course to read as many reviews of Venu as you can. We’ve searched the web to pull together a list of retailers that are offering Venu and have lots of good detailed customer reviews. Simply click the “View Reviews” button below to read those customer reviews.
There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like Venu. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Garmin or alternative products in the Smart watches category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of Venu
Venu scores 9.6/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Smart watches. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of Venu, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for Venu and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Smart watches, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Smart watches? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
Venu scores 8.7/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Smart watches category was £599.00, whilst the cheapest we found was £69.97 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of Venu down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Smart watches category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Smart watches category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for Venu.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Smart watches category. This was £250.37 from the 125 products we found in that category. So Venu actually comes in above average at £299.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £599.00 and the least expensive, which was £69.97. In total we found that of the 125, 40 were more expensive and 81 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as Venu.
Prices of products from Garmin
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Garmin. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Garmin, which was £171.15 of the 45 products we found. So Venu price is above average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Garmin was £12.99 with the most expensive coming in at £599.00.
Prices of products from Garmin and in the Smart watches category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Garmin that sit specifically within the Smart watches category.
For this we found that the average price was £310.82, making Venu at £299 actually below average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £599.00 with the lowest priced item being £149.00. In total there were 3 items that were more expensive and 6 that was less expensive.
Reviews of Venu
Venu scores 8.3/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good Venu is.
Overall score
Venu scores 8.9/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Garmin so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for Venu by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: Venu
- Brand: Garmin
- Model Number: 10197805
- Smartphone notificationsContactless payments via Garmin PayHealth & fitness tracking with heart rate monitor & GPSBattery life: Up to 5 daysCompatible with iOS / Android
- EAN: 753759227814
- Description: Not just a pretty faceMake a statement with the Garmin Venu. Balancing functionality and style; check your texts, track your heart rate and find a new workout routing right on your wrist. And when it’s time for a new look, you can switch up the strap or download new faces from the Garmin Connect IQ store.Smart notifications let you know what’s going down in the group chat without being glued to your phone. See your texts and instant messages on the bright, AMOLED touchscreen.Work out with GarminYou’ll never need a cheesy workout video again. Featuring animated strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts, you can view each step on the Garmin Venu.For peace of mind when you’re going on a run somewhere new, incident detection will let your location to your emergency contacts if there’s an accident.Everyday health trackingKeep track of your daily step count, the floors you’ve climbed, and calories burned throughout the day. Body Battery finds the best times for activity and rest by measuring your heart rate, menstrual cycle, hydration, respiration, sleep and more.Keep the music playingStay motivated as you stretch. Connect your Bluetooth headphones to stream music straight from Spotify, Amazon Music or Deezer. There’s also storage for up to 500 songs. That’s one long workout playlist.Pay with your watchInstead of rummaging around in your bag looking for your wallet, use Garmin Pay next time you’re grabbing your morning coffee. Simply swipe your Garmin Venu against the reader, just like using contactless on your phone.
- Product ID: 25220761043
