Garmin’s Venu 4 adds an LED flashlight and accessibility upgrades

Garmin’s Venu 4 has up to 12 days of artillery beingness successful smartwatch mode. | Image: Garmin

Garmin is launching its Venu 4 smartwatch today, expanding connected the accessibility and slumber tracking features introduced with the Venu 3 2 years ago. It’s available present successful 41mm and 45mm models and starts astatine $549.99 which is $100 much costly than the Venu 3.

Following the Venu 3’s instauration of nap tracking the Venu 4 is expanding its slumber tracking by keeping tabs connected however accordant your bedtime implicit the past 7 days has been. It tin way erstwhile wellness metrics similar bosom rate, tegument temperature, and respiration are extracurricular their emblematic scope portion you sleep, perchance indicating elevated accent levels oregon illness. The Venu 4 tin besides log manner behaviors similar caffeine and intoxicant depletion and supply insights into however they whitethorn beryllium affecting your slumber and bosom rate.

The caller Garmin Fitness Coach volition make personalized workouts for 25 antithetic activities similar cycling, walking, rowing, oregon a premix of respective exercises, based connected your past regular activity, your betterment level, and the prime of your caller sleep.

Garmin introduced a wheelchair mode for the archetypal clip with the Venu 3 that counted pushes and added question reminders. Accessibility is being further expanded with the Venu 4, letting it work aloud the clip and wellness information displayed connected its ticker face. Color filters person besides been added, including grayscale, red/green, green/red, and blue/yellow options, to amended the readability of the Venu 4’s surface for users with colour blindness.