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The video compares the Garmin Venu 3 with the Forerunner 265, focusing on fitness tracking, health metrics, smartwatch functions, navigation features, and training feedback. The Venu 3 leans towards smartwatch capabilities, offering voice assistants and custom message replies. In contrast, the Forerunner 265 excels in advanced training data and external sensor compatibility. Both watches track health metrics but differ in features like sleep recommendations and training readiness assessment. The Venue 3 and Forerunner 265 employ various sensors and offer different navigational functionalities, emphasizing their targeted uses for smartwatch features and sports/training feedback, respectively.
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In this segment of the video, the speaker compares two Garmin smartwatches: the Garmin Venu 3 and the Forerunner 265. Both watches offer fitness tracking and health feedback, have AMOLED displays, touch screens, and are priced similarly. The Venu series is more smartwatch-focused with tighter smartphone integration and a classic look, while the Forerunner series is more sports-focused with sportier design and additional sports-related functions. Both watches come in different sizes, with Venu 3 having slightly larger displays than Forerunner 265. The bands and weights are similar, with Venu 3 having stainless steel bezel compared to plastic bezel in Forerunner 265, giving the Venu 3 a more premium appearance.
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In this segment of the video, the comparison between two wearable devices, the 265 and Venue 3, is discussed. Both devices have a 5 ATM water resistance rating and utilize Gorilla Glass 3 for their displays. The 265 features a five-button configuration, while the Venue 3 has three buttons. The 265 offers flexibility with both touchscreen and button navigation, allowing users to toggle between the two. In contrast, the Venue 3 relies primarily on touchscreen interactions. The 265’s button flexibility can be advantageous during workouts, especially when hands are wet. The Venue 3 introduces an additional right-hand button for smartwatch-related functions compared to the 265.
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In this segment of the video, the comparison is made between Garmin venue 3 and 265 smartwatches in terms of features like voice assistant, making calls, receiving text notifications, and replying to texts. The venue 3 has a built-in microphone and speaker for voice assistant and calls, which is an advantage. While both watches can receive text notifications, only the venue 3 allows for custom message replies using an on-screen keyboard. For iPhone users, reply functionality is limited due to Apple’s restrictions, though a workaround is possible with voice commands on the venue 3. Both watches offer similar features like offline music storage, Garmin Pay, weather information syncing, and calendar events. Battery life is around 10-14 days without the always-on display, and 3.5-5 days with it, varying based on usage. In terms of health and fitness tracking, they share core features like 24-hour heart rate tracking.
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In this part of the video, it is discussed how both the Garmin Venu 3 and Fenix 265 can track various health metrics such as stress levels, respiration rate, steps, floors climbed, calories burned, intensity minutes, and body battery. The Venu 3 offers enhancements including detailed breakdowns of factors affecting body battery, nap tracking of at least five minutes, and a sleep coach feature providing personalized sleep recommendations. The devices also share features like sleep tracking, Morning Report, HRV status monitoring, and recovery time advisor. The Fenix 265 additionally offers a training readiness metric, combining various metrics to assess your fitness readiness for training.
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In this segment of the video, the differences between Garmin Venue 3 and Garmin Forerunner 265 in terms of training and performance feedback are discussed. The Forerunner 265 offers more advanced data, such as training load and training effect. It also provides running power data, which the Venue 3 lacks. The Forerunner 265 can collect advanced running metrics like ground contact time and vertical oscillation, while the Venue 3 focuses on basic running metrics like speed and distance. Additionally, the Forerunner 265 can pair with more external sensors, including cycling power meters, compared to the Venue 3.
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In this segment of the video, the focus is on the different sensors and capabilities of Garmin watches, specifically the Venue 3 and the Forerunner 265. The discussion covers external sensors like Garmin’s HRM Pro and HRM Pro Plus heart rate straps, cycling power meters, and running dynamics sensors. Both watches have internal sensors such as GPS, altimeters, accelerometers, gyroscopes, compasses, heart rate sensors, and blood oxygen saturation sensors. The key difference highlighted is that the Forerunner 265 features a more advanced multi-band GNSS chipset for higher accuracy in challenging environments compared to the Venue 3’s single-frequency chipset. The importance of how companies leverage chipset technology and antenna design for accuracy is also mentioned in the comparison with other devices.
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In this segment of the video, the comparison between Garmin Venue 3 and 265 is discussed. The Venue 3 features Garmin’s 5th generation Elevate heart rate sensor, while the 265 has the 4th generation sensor. Both watches are suitable for cardio activities, with the Venue 3 potentially performing better in activities challenging for optical heart rate sensors. The 265 offers more sport profiles, including triathlon mode, while the Venue 3 includes golf and a meditation profile. The watches differ in data pages and fields allowed per page. The 265 has a resume later function for workout profiles, which the Venue 3 lacks. The 265 also features Garmin’s Pace Pro for pacing strategies during runs. Navigation capabilities are more advanced on the 265 with breadcrumb style routing compared to the Venue 3’s basic navigation features.
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In this segment, the video discusses the Garmin Forerunner 265 and highlights its navigational features, such as showing you the direction and a line to follow when navigating back to your start location. The Forerunner 265 can also load predetermined routes for activities like hiking or biking but uses breadcrumb-style routing instead of full maps like the 965 model. Differences between the Forerunner 265 and the Venu 3, including the Venu 3’s smartwatch focus with additional features like a built-in microphone and speaker, while the Forerunner 265 focuses more on sports and training feedback. The video suggests checking out a comparison video on the Forerunner 265 versus the 965 for more information. Viewers are encouraged to drop any questions in the comments section and support the channel by liking and subscribing.