– Increased price from $199 to $249 for the base model – Maintains existing Gorilla Glass 3 lens – Made new unit slightly thinner than older Venu Sq – Added all Venu 2 user interface changes/tweaks – Added HIIT sports profile from Venu 2 Series – Upgraded to newer Garmin Elevate Gen4 optical HR sensor (previously was Gen3) – Added new ‘All Systems’ GNSS mode (Note: Not multi-band/dual-frequency however) – Changed GPS chipset to Airoha/MediaTek (like Fenix 7/Forerunner 255/955/etc.) – Increased GPS battery life up to 26 hours (from 14 hours) – Doubled (nearly) the battery life from 6 days to 11 days – Doubled the vibration alert power, while also making it quieter – Increased display size from 1.3” to 1.41” (14% increase) First up though, let’s talk about what’s new/different compared to the original Venu Sq. However, there are some areas where the Venu Sq 2 lacks the hardware of the Venu 2 series, and a few tiny areas where it’s better. Whereas with the Venu Sq 2, they basically just made a rectangular Venu 2, and the software also contains almost all the same features as the newer Venu 2 units. Meaning that the original Venu Sq had fairly different internals to the circle-shaped Venu series.
#GORILLA MODE LOCK N LOAD SOFTWARE UPGRADE#
The Garmin Venu Sq 2 is essentially a hardware and software upgrade to very similar internals (and externals) as the Garmin Venu 2 series.
If you found this review useful, feel free to hit up the links at the end of the site, or consider becoming a DCR Supporter. As usual, it’ll go back to them afterwards. Note that this Venu Sq 2 is a media loaner and was sent over by Garmin to test. In any case, I dive into all these new features, how they work, and plenty more in the review below. But we’ll dive into all that within the review. Still, there remain some quirky gaps for a $300 watch in 2022, such as lack of stair tracking, and lack of audible alerts. Plus, they doubled the vibration alert power, while also making it quieter.īeyond the hardware bits, most of the software bits are about normalization to the rest of the Venu 2 series lineup. And technically, they even made the watch a tiny bit thinner. They also increased the display size, slimming up the bezel a bit. Looking at some of the big ticket items, they doubled the resolution of the display, while also nearly doubling the battery life in both smartwatch mode and GPS watch mode. It also gets all the software largely to parity with the Venu 2 series as well. This new model essentially brings the hardware specs inline (or even above) the newer Venu 2 series units.
#GORILLA MODE LOCK N LOAD UPDATE#
Garmin today has announced their latest Venu series watch, the Garmin Venu Sq 2, which is an update to the existing Garmin Venu Sq watch that came out two years ago.
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