Garmin Venu 2 Plus adds voice functionality to popular smartwatch series

(Pocket-lint) - The Garmin Venu 2 Plus, officially revealed astatine CES 2022, adds dependable functionality to the fittingness company's already palmy Venu smartwatch series.

But that's not rather all: the Venu 2 Plus, with its 43mm lawsuit size, is simply a antithetic size to the earlier Venu 2 (which is disposable successful smaller 40mm and larger 45mm sizes).

Like the Venu 2, the Plus exemplary is simply a GPS smartwatch with assorted fittingness features successful tow. There's heart-rate monitoring, humor oxygen reading, and what Garmin calls 'ABC' (the operation of altimeter, barometer, and compass), enabling 24/7 fittingness tracking oregon signaling for circumstantial exercises.

The Plus' large merchantability is the quality to marque calls straight from your wrist, each astatine "the property of a button", says Garmin. The Venu 2 Plus is compatible with Apple's Siri, Google Assistant, oregon Samsung's Bixby - but there's nary Amazon Alexa to beryllium recovered here.

The Venu 2 was the astir Apple-rivalling instrumentality that Garmin had made, truthful the Plus' summation of dependable adjunct power is intelligibly a large woody for the benignant of manner lawsuit the marque is aiming this ticker at.

The Garmin Venu 2 Plus is disposable now, with a suggested retail terms of £399. That's astir a 15 per cent terms bump implicit its predecessor, though, which fixed its property tin perchance beryllium bought for a chopped of that terms - albeit minus the dependable adjunct feature.

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Writing by Mike Lowe. Originally published connected 4 January 2022.