26.10.2019

Versa 2 is Fitbit's still relatively new product. I'm saying that to highlight the potential that lies in this tracker/smart watch.When the watch arrived, I thought someone stole it as it wasn't in the box once opened. I even emailed Amazon. It turned out that once sliding the box out of the case, I did it upside down and the watch fell out before I turned the box around. I didn't notice that. It's funny how well the charger is protected but the watch itself is so loose inside the case. Hopefully you can see it on the last picture. Weird.I realised I wasn't the only one when I looked in the Fitbit community forum.Anyway, what you get for starters is the watch itself,the silicone band with additional longer strap if you have bigger wrists, and the charger. Not a lot, but enough.I didn't particularly like the band so went on Internet to look for a better one. That's when I realised how 'new' the watch really is. The list of accessories, although larger almost every day, is still very small. You get a few screen protectors, a few case protectors, some replacement chargers and a limited number of good looking bands. There were no stands for chargers when I got it first, checking today there are 2 types, still a bit ugly. Unfortunately the charger isn't compatible with the first Versa. The bands are, but even so there aren't many decent ones. Very weird. I'm talking about accessories 1st because customising your smart watch is a very important thing these days.But let's get to the watch and see what's good and what's bad.Pros- Design is very good - it's rather small for a smart watch which the ladies will appreciate. The AMOLED screen looks amazing and the touch screen - very responsive.- You can customise the watch faces through the app and some look really great. You can also learn how to make them yourself (inside the app) and create your very own!- It comes with some useful apps as default. Apart from usual stats you get in the tracker (steps, heart rate, calories, distance, altitude, sleep, food, weight), you get a timer, alarms, music listening app, exercise app, weather, Spotify, Strava and Deezer and an app to help you relax (breathing). You can download more inside Fitbit app.- It's one of the best combined trackers/smartwatches out there. Why? Because it tracks so many activities and it does it for free (other brands will charge a subscription fee for some activities).- The battery. It's a proof that things like smartwatches, smartphones etc. CAN have a quality, reliable, long lasting battery. I charge mine around every 6 days and I normally do it at around 35% level which would probably last for another 1-2 days. And I use different features like listening to music, tracking my gym exercises, swimming, tracking my sleep etc. Brilliant!- Waterproof. It says it's waterproof 50M which means you can swim in it and do some snorkeling, but not dive. I tested it a number of times swimming as well as showering and even staying in a steam room (kept the watch face covered there all the time though). I can confirm (please don't break after that Fitbit!!!) it's working with no issues so far. I did leave it to dry after each water activity but wouldn't switch it off.- Bluetooth. You can pair your wireless headphones with it and store 300+ songs. The sound quality is excellent and app, although simple, does the job very well.- Fitbit Pay. You can use the watch face to pay for TFL in London and use to pay in shops if you're signed up to growing but still very limited amount of UK banks that support it. I think it's useful.- Alexa. A nice to have addition. You can ask questions and will get the answer on the screen. You can also control you smart home devices however this feature doesn't seem to work for me.- Messaging. You can receive messages from most messaging services as well as emails and txt messages. You can reply to txt messages as well. I find it extremely useful but you have to have your phone on Bluetooth constantly for that. You can still use your headphones at the same time though!- Fitbit app. Once you get used to it, you'll learn to like it or even love it. Very good graphic interface giving you main stats at a glance. I love the sleep graphs, they look pro! You can also access some settings for account, add apps, change clock faces, control music storage and your Fitbit Pay wallet, and finally - shop accessories directly from Fitbit (US only unfortunately).- Fitbit Community. I was so impressed with the amount of support you get from other users and site moderators as well as Fitbit Support engineers. I've not seen this kind of involvement with any other brand! Make sure you visit the page, especially if you have an issue with anything.- Reliability. I left this one at the end of Pros as I have heard Fitbit to be one of the best fitness tracking devices there is. However I don't know for sure. Example - your body burns calories even when you sleep so your Fitbit will show some results even when you wake up and you haven't had your watch on yet. That's fine but it will sometimes show me 700-800 calories...(when I sleep longer) Really? Also steps are tracked by hand movement so you can add some steps comfortably lying on the couch and just moving your hand...Well I guess it's a form of exercise too.Ok cons!These will mostly be areas still under development although there are some genuine flaws.- Lack of accessories mentioned before.- Limited ability to use Fitbit Pay due to not many UK banks participating currently.- Alexa smart devices not working. I should probably explore it more with Fitbit Community but I can't get my Alexa app to show Fitbit as Online. Without that it won't recognize the devices.- Limited number of phones Versa 2 works with. Now that's pretty serious. Officially the new Fitbit will only work with devices that have Android 7.0 installed. My phone has Android 6.1 and initially wouldn't work. By wouldn't I mean it rendered the tracker completely useless. I wasn't even able to use it as a standard watch. I ended up configuring it with my Samsung tablet which had Android 7.0. After speaking to Fitbit Support it all of a sudden started working on my phone. I think they artificially suspended access for older systems as they haven't fully tested them.- Initial configuration. I found it not as easy as it should be. Set aside my compatibility issues, it was still a fairly complicated process. I guess it has to be as the tracker collects a fair amount of personal data about you.- Syncing. This is another teething issue which cries for a permanent fix. Recently I haven't had any problems but in the past I'd have to drag the screen down a few times to get it to sync. Once I had to restart my phone as the app was claiming it can't find my device. You have to have Bluetooth enabled as well as location for the tracker to sync.- No built in GPS. It's not a drama as most apps will just need your phone connected to sort this problem but still - some competition has GPS built in.- No wireless charging. Considering that the 'stock' charger is rather clunky (why???) and there are only few alternatives, lack of wireless charging is a major flaw. It was expected to be included by many users of previous Fitbits. My personal gripe with this is I have to remove my case protector every time as it won't fit in the charging cradle. Luckily I only have to do it once a week or so...- Limited amount of decent clock faces. There is only a handful amound of free ones that you might like but even with paid there aren't that many good ones. Fitbit created a few free faces themselves but for me it isn't enough. Took me a while to find something nice and functional. This part however does grow with every day passing. Also every time you want to swap a face, you have to download it through the app and it removes the old face. A bit pants.- Limited amount of decent apps. Similar to clock faces, there should be more variety of apps. Like a few good exercise tracking apps for instance. Fingers crossed for some quick progress here.Overall as much as I had a rough start with it ('lost' tracker, compatibility issues), I changed my mind almost completely after using it for a while. It has a quite stylish look and is functional. It's also very addictive to match your targets every day, it keeps reminding you to move more, sends you weekly stats summary, awards badges and trophies for achievements - basically motivates you to be more active.Once you get past the setup hassle, get a few days of stats, get to know the app a bit and add some nice bands to your collection, you'll start thinking it was worth buying in the end. And remember it has a great potential to get even better!

31.12.2019

I’ve been using the fitbit versa II for a couple of months and generally works well. It counts steps and records heart rate, but you can’t use it without a smart phone app. The battery life is poor needs charging daily or every other day depending upon use and settings. A cradle charger is included, this is watch specific, there is no universal charging socket so you can’t charge without the cradle. The watch has no inbuilt GPS you have to pair it with the GPS no your phone for tracked activities.Set upThe set up was not hard, the phone app needs to be down loaded and synced with the watch. There have been 2 firmware updates since I got the watch, the app prompts to update.It comes with 2 identical plastic straps but of different lengths, so you can choose that which best fits your wrist size. Additional straps are available via fitbit store or third party suppliers. The straps are much easier to change than a standard watch, the latter can mean a trip to the jewellers, with fitbit the lugs which hold the strap on have a small ‘handle’ so they can be slotted into the watch. It is a bit fiddly, I changed to a sparkly strap for some parties but would not be wanting to change the strap daily.Details of other functions below:Phone appThe app is pretty comprehensive, and has quite a lot of help functions not only for the watch operation but also tips for healthy living. It displays a lot more detail than on the watch. However some parts are locked out unless you want to subscribe to an enhanced version. For example details of heart rate during sleep and limited on the basic free app.Watch facesFitbit claims a lot of watch faces, but when you have removed those that don’t work with the Versa 2, those that you have to pay for, some that just don’t work, and any that you don’t like the style of the choice becomes rather limited. Commonly watch faces will show date and time including seconds, amount of charge heart rate, calories burned, activity and number of steps. If you like to have your watch permanently on during waking hours a standard face with basic functions is displayed which cant be changed, you have to activate the watch to get your selected face. With watch face always on I needed to charge the watch every day and every other day with it off. You can change the brightness and screen time out in settings and minimise battery use.StepsYou put in your basic data, age, height and weight. The app appears to estimate your step length and calculate how many steps you’ve taken. It works well if you for a period of time walk in a reasonably straight line. Its not so accurate if walk short distances and make turns. Shuffling round an exhibition for an hour at a slow speed didn’t detect any steps! However the watch can be fooled, if you sit in a chair and swing your arm it will count that as steps. You can set a target daily step count.ActivityThis is recorded in two ways. Firstly auto detected, you need to be moving about for a minimum amount of time for the watch to detect and record. At the current time you can’t change the parameters that trigger this and I feel it under detects activity. I spent 5 hours working at a community café in and out of a kitchen, taking orders, serving food and drink but only got credited with a couple of hours of activity. The watch will also detect if you take a minimum of 250 steps per hour to try and motivate you to keep moving. The time period can set from 7am to 8pm or a shorter period, but you can’t choose to say remove an hour in the middle of the day to reflect a lunch break. The time period also counts an hour say 2 to 3pm, you cant choose to set the time period 2.30 to 3.30pm. Hence you can be quite active but if you have one hour meetings on the hour getting the steps in can be a challenge.ExercisesThere are a huge amount of exercises available both on the watch and app. Walking, running, bike, swimming, treadmill, weights, interval training, workout, elyptical (cross trainer), hike, golf, stair climber, tennis, spinning, yoga, boot camp, kick boxing, pilates….. During use a firmware update has added additional choices to the watch, so more may come in the future. The watch will auto detect some exercises and record them as exercise after 10-15 minutes duration. At the time of writing these times can’t be changed. Cutting the grass with a push mover is autodetected as going for a bike ride. An auto detected walk is shown on the app with time, heart rate and calories as the basic parameters. A walk that is linked to the phone app and GPS displays a small map of the route, the distance (choose to set miles or km’s) heart rate and pace, but not calories??? If you want to know the calories you have to dig into the app. Having done that you can access a lot of info e.g. split time per mile, heart rate and zones. The watch detected and measured 4 lengths of the pool as 100m, it also said that burned only 4 calories! Hasn’t made me want to swim when time is limited.Fitbit claims that it works with other apps e.g. life fitness. So if I go to the gym and get on an exercise bike and record the work out using life fitness the info should transfer to the fitbit app. I’ve not been able to get this to work, have updated the LF app and even updating the android phone to a newer model has made no difference. I can take the info from the LF app and enter it manually into fit bit though.Heart rateFitbit recommend to wear your watch on the top of your wrist, close to your hand with face upwards. I some times wear it on the underside of my wrist and find this works too. For me the rates recorded seem pretty accurate as long as the watch is firmly in contact with your wrist. On the app you can see how your hear rate changes during the day and at night if you wear it in bed.CaloriesThe watch calculates and displays calories live if you choose a face which show it. On the app you can log your calories. If you’re eating packaged food then you can scan the bar code and it will down load the calories and food composition. Not every thing I purchase from main stream supermarkets was included I the database and I had to type quite a lot in. In some ways I found it didn’t encourage healthy living. My home made soup is much better than mass produced with added salt and sugar, but I’ve got to weight the ingredients and work out the fat, protein, carbs etc. You can use the app to help with weight loss. Put in a target weight and date you’d like to achieve this and it gives you a calories per day allowance. As you log calories during the day it compare your intake to expenditure. A novel approach but as calories burned are live, after dinner you may be over your limit but even if you only sit after dinner until bedtime you will still burn calories and wont know the daily amount until you look back the next day.WaterYou can log water consumed on the app to help you drink enough fluids.Other functionsThe watch also has alarm settings, a timer, you can get it to sync with a weather app (although I cant set the temperature in DegC rather than DegF.) You can transfer music from your pc to your watch (not tried) the app also works with Deezer or so the manufacturers claim I’ve not tried it. You can buy personalised programmes for exercise and for relaxation. You can set up payment on the watch, but have not evaluated that either, dislike payments via devices. What would happen if you loose your watch could some one easily spend your money with it???The watch is claimed to work with Amazon Alexa but we don’t have one, so that’s not been tested.

25.2.2020

A controversial opinion, I'm sure, but if you're already healthy and get regular exercise, avoid this watch and just get a really nice traditional watch for the money. I'll outline my pros and cons below, but here's my situation, which I think is fairly typical.I cycle to work every day (150 miles a week which, OK, that's not typical!) but I take a short walk at lunch every day, play football, squash, work out in the garden when the weather's nice and just generally lead a fairly healthy lifestyle. I wore this watch everyday, all day, for a month. I have not used any other smart watches.Also, before I start, there are some important distinctions to be made: as far as I can see there are 3 types of "wrist wear-ables" in the market today that you should consider:1.A fitness tracker that is also a watch (Fitbit Versa 2). It's a purpose-built fitness tracker, that also looks like a traditional, fashionable watch.2. A watch that has a fitness tracker (Apple Watch, Galaxy Gear). A smart watch that has fitness tracking capabilities, built primarily to interact with other devices as part of an ecosystem of tech.3. Fitness trackers (Huawei Honor Band). They don't try and look cool or integrate with everything, they are just focussed on being light, unobtrusive and tracking heart rate, steps etc.So, onto the pros:* It was really nice to see I have a very good resting BPM and I was consistently hitting the daily and weekly mini targets with ease.* The app is really user-friendly, with simple interfaces and all the useful stuff up front.* The watch is really comfortable with the stock strap and I like the milanese variant I got cheap from eBay.That's it for the pros! Now for the deal-breaking cons and why healthy people shouldn't get one:* The bezel. You don't see it in the ads; the screen seems to be seamless with the case, but in reality that bezel is big, chunky and ugly. I'm not saying that the screen becomes too small to be usable, far from it: I never had problems operating the watch, but from purely a fashion point of view, or even a tech point of view (I own an Oppo Reno 10x Zoom phone with very slim bezels) this looks really ugly and its not the aesthetic you see in the ads* If you're healthy and happy with your way of life, this is pointless. I wasn't looking to smash my PBs every week in some kind of race for infinite improvement, I just kept the stock goals. My BPM was very good and that's not just going to change overnight without some radical, life-altering event happening to me, so knowing that all the time is unnecessary. My sleep patterns are regular so, again, nothing's going to radically change from one day to the next so what do I care knowing how much REM sleep I got? Ultimately, I just found the hourly move reminders annoying, so I turned them off, so then what? I just had an expensive watch that was monitoring things that had no real impact on my life! Worse still, it wasn't very sensitive to when I wanted to know the time, so I kept having to exaggeratedly flick my wrist to check the time.Now, I purchased this as I was convinced by my two colleagues at work and their constant chirping about how the data was useful to them, so if you need that data to lose weight, or be more active, then I couldn't find fault with the data at all; it was highly accurate, but just not relevant to how I want to live my life.In conclusion, I briefly compared this with my colleagues' Apple Watches and there's really no contest when it comes to the app for tracking your fitness goals. This was designed to track fitness, the Apple Watch happens to have a fitness tracker in it because that's cool. So, if you're serious about losing weight or being healthier, and you want a watch too, this is the watch to get. It's purpose built, accurate, light comfortable...all you could want. BUT, if you're just healthy and living your life, don't bother. I found I checked the data anyway and would worry about my sleep or my BPM if it went up a little during the day, but that's just natural; that's how life is and I don't need to start bringing stress into my life, always thinking about move minutes and light sleep Vs REM sleep etc!If you're not bothered about app integration or the watch looking cool on your wrist, I'd go for the Honor band from Huawei, as it seems to do the same thing as the Fitbit, but for £30.Thanks for reading and hit like if this was helpful to you! I hope you make the right choice.

23.10.2019

I've had a lot of fitness trackers and they all end up sitting on the shelf after a while, but this Versa 2 is the first one that I've really stuck with. Or maybe it's stuck with me. It does a couple of really useful things:The best thing the Versa 2 does is to encourage me to walk more. And I mean it actively encourages - every hour if I haven't done sufficient paces it gives me a friendly buzz on my wrist and tells me "you have 24 more steps to do this hour". The animated display it gives you to encourage you when you've succeeded in meeting a target is really nice, too.When I first set it up I was kind of disappointed that there is no specific email or messaging app on the watch,but actually the visual alerts it gives you on your wrist when things come in on your phone are just right, and in practice I haven't felt any need to adjust anything.The buzz you get on your wrist when an email arrives, a text or phone call means I don't miss anything when I'm walking along a busy street with my phone in my pocket.The battery life is a bit better than adequate, and while that sounds like being damned by faint praise, you have a choice, to set it to use less battery by having a dimmer display that turns off more quickly, or to have it nice and bright, and to have a basic display on all the time. Charging with the supplied dock is quick and easy, and I have never had a problem running out of charge as a top-up back to 100% takes less than an hour. The charging dock itself is a bit odd - your watch clips into it and rests on its side. Would be nicer if it displayed the Versa 2 more elegantly, but I guess it works.The iPhone app is easy to use, and syncs effortlessly with the watch. The choice of alternative watch faces is odd - I was hoping to find a load of elegant options, but really there's only one that's designed by Fitbit that looks nice - there are a thousand others that look like they've been designed by a twelve-year-old. There are a bunch of downloadable apps and while I've installed and experimented with them, I've found none of them have become part of my daily life. Things like alarms, weather, controlling Spotify, relaxation exercises, a calculator - I've almost always got my phone with me to do these things - but your mileage may vary.The first thing I did when I got the Versa 2 was to buy an attractive fabric strap on Amazon. It's so much nicer than the rubber one that's supplied with the watch. Not sweaty, for starters, and it seems less susceptible to strangling my wrist as the day goes by.I have to mention that a lot of people who I meet, look at my wrist and say "oooh an Apple watch" to which I have to explain no, it's a Fitbit. This doesn't bother me, but I imagine there are a lot of status-conscious individuals who wouldn't want people to think less of them because they spent a few hundred quid less on their smart watch.For me, the Versa 2 fulfils all the functions I hoped it would and I really like wearing it.The only thing I really won't do is to turn the microphone on and access Alexa - I'm just too paranoid.

6.10.2019

Getting the chance to test this was awesome, as I will admit - despite my relatively non-active lifestyle - I have always been curious by fitbits, and smart watches in general. Let me tell you right now, this product is excellent!Let's dive in. The fitbit is packaged beautifully, and there's no chance of it getting damaged in transit, in case you worry so - rightly - over such an expensive, high-quality product. The instructions are easy to follow, and a quick charge (this thing charges really fast, and the battery life is excellent. It lasts probably around a week, in full before you'd have to charge it. It's incredible) was all this thing needed.I will say that when I first turned the fitbit on,it was entirely in German, but this was easily rectified as I installed the FitBit app on my phone, synced the devices - my phone and the fitbit iteself - and entered my country and such.The fitbit is fast, responds well to tapping, and it's sensor to turn on is great. It might seem lazy, but when you're out and about or carrying things, you don't want to keep pressing the button on the left to tell the time. Though you can, by all means, switch off this automatic feature in the settings, if you wish.The actua fitness part of the fitbit is great. It easily tracks my heart rate, calories burned and steps done in a day - and now I'm back at university, I walk a fair bit, and it's great to see that reflected on the app - and in the app it has all the details you want, such as average steps in a day, sleeping rate, resting heart rate, challenges, etc. The use of achievements/badges is a great little incentive to walk that bti extra, and I have had no problems in syncing the two devices, through the use of bluetooth.This fitbit also features relevant apps for relaxing or exercise, allowing yourself little challenges to complete, stopwatches for running, etc. I've used this out on hikes and it's brilliant.This particular fitbit also features Spotify which is easy to connect, and neat if you don't want the hassle of taking your phone out all the time. It's another great app, for sure.The FitBit is comfortable, and easily adjustable to a variety of wrist sizes, meaning you should never feel shackled by it. It even comes with a longer piece of strap in case that's what you need. You can also even change the standard 'clock face' in your app - the customisation setting here is a really ace touch. It feels like *your* fitbit.The built-in Amazon Alexa is a great touch, too, and useful for those quick questions when your phone or laptop just isn't at hand. It recognises my voice and what I say ten times out of ten.Overall, I do see myself using this for a while! It's great as a watch, smart watch and fitness product. It even makes me care about how many steps I do now, and I find myself taking longer walks home to get that average up. And whether it's something as small as that, or full on workouts at the gym, if it helps, then it's served its purpose. It is a little expensive, but it's a definite high quality item for the price tag. I love this product.

4.10.2019

Smart watches are becoming more and more popular and increasingly functional. I've also noticed their prices are also falling quite rapidly. This Fitbit Versa 2 Health & Fitness Smartwatch falls into the mid market in terms of price (around £200 at the time of writing). But as far as I can tell it has most of the functionality of the more expensive models on the market. Unlike some cheaper models this Fitbit looks more like a watch rather than a fitness tracker. It reminds me a bit of the old style digital watches which were "the latest thing" back in my youth. I won't write a full on novella by going thorough all its functions,but having been living with the watch for just over a week now my initial observations are as follows:- The installation of the software and set up took a bit of effort and was somewhat (actually very) laborious (I was on the verge of throwing it out the window at one point).....got there in the end, but it really should be a lot more straight forward.- While the Bluetooth connection to my phone works fine when I'm in range there's often a bit of an issue when it tries to reconnect should I walk out of range and then back. That's to say the re-connection can sometimes (stress on sometimes) not happen. Or if it does there can be a delay of several minutes. Once or twice I've even had to close the app down and relaunch it again to regain the connection (I'm using Android 8.0.0 by the way on a sony Xperia). I haven't tried connecting with Alexa...as yet.- Very easy to read watch face.....of course you can change the face to one of your choice via the app, though some will cost you a nominal one off fee to do so.- Its comfortable to wear...not at all heavy....looks and feels well made.- The heart tracker works reasonably well...... but occasionally shows a low reading even if I've just been jogging for half an hour or so. My only explanation(s) for this occasional lag is that perhaps the sensor get's blocked by wrist hair or sweat. Or perhaps it has to be very precisely aligned with a spot on my wrist.- The steps monitor works very well all the time..... I've done some rough and ready testing on its accuracy and can't fault it....so what if its a step or two out every 10,000 steps or so.- Changing settings and notifications, etc on the phone is very straight forward...are there are loads of options for customisation.- Battery life appears very good so far.......wearing it for a 16 hour day the charge doesn't fall below 85%. So in theory it should last around 6 days before needing a top up.- It keeps accurate time!So at the moment my summary view is that its a decent watch to have on my wrist, which as I become more familiar with its functions could well become one of those "how did I ever manage before" gadgets...... Alternatively though, it could well turn into one of those devices where I eventually get so frustrated at its inconsistencies that I lock it away in a draw, or give it away to my nephew, just to be rid of the hassle. The jury is out... I shall persevere.

15.4.2020

The Fitbit Versa 2 is a joy to wear every single day.Shipping was perfect, and there was no damage either on the box or the product. The watch has a lot of features such as:- Sleep Tracking- Excercise summary- Alexa (Useful to find certain information on the go)- Spotify ControlThe watch is comfortable to wear on your wrist, it becomes unnoticeable to your everyday life, in my experience when exercising, the watch doesn't get in the way of my workout and the same is said for when you sleep, as the strap is made of comfortable material and has multiple adjustments holes, fit for any size arms/wrist.This watch will last you for 4 days without needing a recharge, that is if you keep the watch in low usages,such as not having an always-on display or if you are not using an app, such as Spotify, which will run in the background if you decide to use it as a remote control for your music; Otherwise, the battery will last for 2 days or so, and would only need a 2-hour charge, which I recommend doing when going for a shower or not doing an intensive workout or activity.On topic with the shower, the watch is waterproof and I have gone swimming with it and I have not received any problem, even tracked my swim.The display is bright and has nice vibrant colors, the screen feels nice on both the fingers and to the eye. I have also clumsily dropped it numerous times and not a single scratch on it. The menu and the main watch screen canbe widely customized, as you can find lots of different themes, fit to your style, on the AppStore, made exclusively for Fitbit.All the tracking is on point! Fitbit provides, with lots of useful information, which can help, for your self-improvement and well being.Unfortunately, even tho this is mostly a great product, there are a few aspects in which that can be improved on, the system on the watch feels sluggish at times, I have encountered multiple time where the watch slows down or froze for a second.The app on your phone is a bit confusing to figure out at first, where you install new apps and where you see information, and one major problem I have encountered is syncing when I first got the watch, I had to factory reset the watch, as it wasn't properly syncing up between my phone and the watch, losing those couple of days worth of data.It could help if the integrated Alexa app, could connect to other Alexa devices such as my Echo Dot, so I could ask anything and answer through my speaker, so I can hear it rather than reading it.Overall this is an amazing product and I recommend to buy this watch if you need to track exercise or sleep, , the extra features come in handy, but I wouldn't recommend buying this for those certain features. It's comfortable and has a nice look to it, a slick design, easy to wear every day, but as I said I would have liked if the watch would have been easier to set up and maybe can be done by giving tip on the phone app and at also as I mentioned before at times it can be slow.

11.11.2019

I got this for my birthday and I have been using about a month now. This is my first Fitbit so I can't really compare to the other models but as an individual product it is great.I bought it to encourage me to walk more and have been using it for my couch 2 5k runs, I find it seems fairly accurate and the automatic workout sensor is very cool although it did get it wrong one time and thought I was on the eliptical when I was actually running lol! but every other time it has been correct in sensing whether I am running or walking.The sleep function is very cool and seems to be accurate, I find it interesting to check each morning!The app is great although at times I can have trouble SYNCing it to my watch,

23.2.2020

Had this for a couple of months, and so far it has worked flawlessly for my needs.This watch will not be for everyone due to certain features not being included such as GPS, however it is a great watch if it aligns with your needs.First of all, the looks. It is a nice sleek design with one side button, and it fits comfortably and it has a nice and bright AMOLED touchscreen providing nice colours. It has a built in ambient light sensor meaning the brightness will auto adjust for the light, and it is great in both bright and dark times. The screen now comes with an always-on display which shows time or workout progress, but has limited customisability.

28.3.2020

I've been a long-standing Pebble Time wearer, but wanted something a bit more up-to-date, and was interested in having heart rate measurement. Battery life is great - easily 5 days with constant use, and only an hour or two to charge back up. I need to have to my phone on me anyway during walks/runs etc. so the Connected GPS is fine for me. The app is packed full of information, although I will say the interface is a bit confusing - just try tapping on everything and there's often more data hidden behind. I'm finding the calorie budget and food logging functionality really useful and have lost a couple of pounds after only a couple of weeks. The heart rate and sleep tracking has proved more interesting than I was expecting.

19.6.2020

It is beautiful, I bought it on sale and for the price it is what I wanted. A digital watch that does other things besides tell the time.It is great for walking, running, hiking and only a little bit off counting steps. It is a bit useless for biking as it can't tell you the distance but it will tell you calories, heart rate and even the speed of your bike ride. The distance travelled will not be logged correctly though and it can't be edited afterwards. I have looked for fixes on forums and this problem has been brought up at least a year ago and it is not fixed. I do a daily trip of 7km but it only logs 1.3km on average.

26.9.2019

I was quite excited waiting for this to arrive. Any why wouldn't I be? A brand leader in wearable tech with the latest offering and Alexa to boot.When or arrived it looked fantastic.i Stome and Must Grey, it was stylish. It was techy. It did useful things.That's if you can get it all connected . It took me several attempts to pair it with both Wifi and Bluetooth and the frustration in doing this is the main reason why it is not getting 5 stars from me .Once I did get everything to work (having a newer version of Android helps) it was pretty good; as a tracker it converted my steps into distance as an assistant it gave me notifications of emails and social media posts .Furthermore it could play up to 300 (ish songs )

20.6.2020

Lovely design and exactly what I expected.I bought an Apple Watch which I wasn’t too impressed with - I compared it toMy previous charge 3 and for the money wasn’t overly satisfied so sold it.The Apple Watch didn’t analyse sleep (without an app which was rubbish anyway) and period tracking wasn’t the best either. You could speak through it via a voice call which sometimes lagged and reply to texts/WhatsApp /messenger which I really liked.This Versa doesn’t allow responding to WhatsApp /messenger - only view or I can’t talk through it - but can answer then pick up my phone. Notifications are good (iPhone) and haven’t experienced any delay.The layout is lovely and much easier to use.

4.10.2019

I am very impressed with this watch!This was to replace my Samsung Gear S3 frontier as the apps available for that aren't very good and it's quite bulky.The fitbit is sleek, light and you barely know its there. The screen is good quality (not razor sharp but good enough), easy to use and the battery life is insane. I got almost a full week of battery! Granted I'm not a heavy user but it never left my wrist.You can shower in it as its waterproof and when sleeping its discrete enough not to bother you in the night.The tracking is good and it sends reminders to move, log food, drink water etc.The selection of faces is pretty good but a lot are paid faces.

22.10.2019

Overall I really liked the product. There were some teething problems setting up the app and I have had to reset my phone at least once or twice a week when the app couldn't find my Fitbit.It tracks your sleep with quite interesting results. However, some of the services are premium. I have no idea how much they cost as I didn't feel the need to sign up for them. There is a community that you can join through the app to post your achievements ect. The app gives you badges to encourage you with your fitness goals too.What I loved about it was having a more detailed view of how many calories I was burning and not just through exercise but throughout the day. I downloaded a free watch face through the app,

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