Garmin’s Venu X1 smartwatch has its biggest display and smallest case yet

Garmin announced the $799 Venu X1 fittingness ticker today. It offers a  2-inch quadrate AMOLED surface and seems similar a changeable astatine the Apple Watch Ultra 2, fixed its akin quadrate plan and titanium body, adjacent though the company’s different watches already connection akin features to Apple’s flagship wearable.

It’s benignant of similar a quadrate mentation of the Fenix 8 oregon Forerunner 970 watches, conscionable with shorter artillery beingness and immoderate different trade-offs. Garmin says it’ll past astir 2 days with the always-on show progressive (or up to 8 days with it off), compared to 7 days of always-on with the 47mm AMOLED Fenix 8. And, portion it has a built-in flashlight similar those different watches, it lacks ECG enactment and multi-band GPS. It besides has full-color mapping, which isn’t usually recovered connected Garmin’s Venu watches.

The Venu X1 features a scratch-resistant sapphire lens and a titanium caseback, on with a built-in talker and microphone for calls oregon dependable commands. Garmin notes that you tin usage immoderate dependable commands, similar “start a moving activity” oregon “set a timer for 5 minutes,” without having a smartphone paired.

The Venu X1 besides has a suite of wellness and fittingness tracking features with implicit 100 enactment profiles, arsenic good arsenic a pulse oximeter to measurement your humor oxygen saturation.

The Venu X1 volition beryllium disposable successful achromatic and acheronian greenish erstwhile it launches connected June 18th.