GPS-packing Venu is Garmin’s first AMOLED smartwatch

Garmin’s campaign to make you ditch your Apple Watch has just had boost in the shape of the AMOLED-packing Venu (from £299). The first of Garmin’s smartwatches to get the vibrant screen tech, there’s also GPS onboard and it’s absolutely packed with health and fitness tracking skills, including heart-rate, pulse ox, sleep and menstrual cycles. That bright 1.2in screen is used for workout animations and showing notifications, while a five-day battery life will make sure that you don’t have to worry too much about charging it. It comes in various finishes, which will dictate how much you pay for one, and you’ll be able to strap on one sometime in Q4.

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Stuff's second Tom has been writing for the magazine and website since 2006, when smartphones were only for massive nerds and you could say “Alexa” out loud without a robot answering. Over the years he’s written about everything from MP3s to NFTs, played FIFA with Trent Alexander-Arnold, and amassed a really quite impressive collection of USB sticks.

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