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The Garmin Venu 4 should arrive soon; here's how Garmin should improve it


Take the Venu 3, mix in a little Fenix 8 and Vivoactive 6, then sprinkle in some new features, and the Venu 4 will have a winning formula.

It should bring back the core Garmin health and training tools like Body Battery, Sleep Coach, intensity minutes, workout benefit, recovery time, animated indoor workouts, running dynamics, running power, and more recent add-ons like Garmin Strength Coach. The Garmin Vivoactive 6 with training effect on a brighter AMOLED display (Image credit: Derrek Lee / Android Central)The 2025 Vivoactive 6 is designed as a cheaper Venu alternative, but since it came out later, it introduced features the Venu 4 is nearly 100% certain to get: move alerts, daily walking suggestions, Garmin Run Coach, prebuilt cycling plans, PacePro, training effect, and the smart alarm that waits to wake you until you're in a light sleep stage. (Image credit: Michael Hicks / Android Central)Garmin avoids adding overly complicated Forerunner training tools to the Venu series, where they might overwhelm new users.

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