Live your best life with the Fitbit Versa family of health and
fitness smartwatches. The Versa Lite Edition includes core
fitness and smart features like activity, sleep and heart rate
tracking, notifications, apps and 4+ day battery life—plus bold
color choices and an easy one-button design. Fitbit Versa
includes all the features of Lite Edition plus music, on-screen
workouts, floors climbed and swim lap tracking. Finally, the
Versa Special Edition includes all the features of Versa, plus a
special woven band and on-the-go payments with Fitbit Pay. Track
your all-day activity, 24/7 heart rate, & sleep stages, all with
a 4+ day battery life (varies with use and other factors) and a
slim, comfortable design with a lightweight, anodized aluminum
watch body. Syncs with Mac OS X 10.6 and up, iPhone 4S and later,
iPad 3 gen. and later, Android 7.0 and later and Windows 10
devices. Syncing range: Up to 6.1 m.
Review: Stylish, functional, great price....the perfect fitness
tracker/smartwatch hybrid available! - So, I started exercising a
lot about 6 months ago, and decided I HAD to pre-order this when
it became available. Before I started exercising I owned a Fitbit
Flex 2 just to track my sleep since I have sleep issues. That
Fitbit is very basic and basically just a pedometer, so this was
quite the upgrade. When I started exercising I realized how
important a heart rate tracker was to my exercise, and also more
basic fitness trackers can't track stages of your sleep, which I
really wanted. I am in LOVE with this watch, and so glad I waited
for this instead of getting the Ionic. A lot of people ask if
they should get the Ionic or Versa. Well, it's up to you, but the
Ionic is $100 more and I personally like the style of the Versa
much more. It's much more sleek and elegant. However, if you have
really large arms you may want the Ionic. I have tiny arms so it
was an easy choice for me. The only thing better about the Ionic
is the GPS, and I don't use that....so if that it is important to
you then you definitely need the Ionic. Anyway, this watch is a
great competitor to the Apple Watch. And you don't have to have
an iPhone. Be warned, most Android devices are not "supported" by
Fitbit, but will still work....however, they may be glitchy from
time to time. I have an LG Stylo 3 Plus, a really new phone, and
every now and then I will have syncing issues - it just WON'T
sync. I have had to contact Fitbit a few times to help me, both
with this and the Flex 2. Their customer support was actually
surprising helpful and fixed it each time. However, I also have
an iPad....so if it won't sync I will just sync to the iPad for
awhile. But I know that not everyone has that as an alternative.
One thing I love about the Versa is that you forget you're even
wearing it. It's really, really comfortable and not obtrusive at
all. It's very trendy and modern-looking. I got the special
edition mainly for the lavender woven band, but it also comes
with a chip where you can make payments on. I actually haven't
set this up yet and be warned that it doesn't work with all banks
(and almost certainly not a small local bank), but it's an
interesting option I will probably get around to using
eventually. I am mostly using this for the exercise and the
sleep. I have to be honest, I don't care much about the music and
while originally I didn't think I'd care about notifications, I
actually really appreciate the notifications now because I never
miss an important phone call now because I didn't hear my phone
over noise or something like that. Exercise - most important
thing for me, of course. I love how it tracks your resting heart
rate, calories burned, the fitbit coach. I know that Fitbit has a
tendency to over-count steps though, so keep that in mind. I keep
my step goal about 2,000 over because of it. Sleep - One of the
most fascinating things to me is how it tracks your sleep cycles.
I have some serious sleeping issues so this is really helpful to
me. It shows your REM, deep sleep, light sleep, and awake. Don't
be alarmed to see how little deep sleep you get...the majority is
supposed to be light sleep. I also noticed that when I switched
from the Flex 2 to this, that I was getting a lot less
sleep....both track and subtract your "awake/restless" time, but
the Versa seems to be much more sensitive to it than the Flex 2.
So for nights that the Flex 2 maybe recorded 9 hours of sleep,
the Versa is tracking maybe 6 hours and 45 minutes, depending on
the night. I know my sleep is bad, but I honestly this it may be
a little TOO sensitive. Overall, I am so happy with this watch!
Review: Excellent replacement for Pebble Time Round - I purchased
this watch to replace my Pebble Time Round when it stopped
vibrating reliably. I am really liking the Versa, though I will
say that it took a few hours and lots of patience to get it set
up correctly. I ended up having to read through a bunch of
message boards to figure out how to get text messages and
notifications to display properly. I am using it with a Samsung
Galaxy S7 Android phone. While there aren't as many apps yet as
Pebble had, there are plenty to get back functionality that my
Pebble Time Round had by default. Some of the best third party
apps include My Agenda (to see calendar appointments), Tips,
Calculator, Currencies and Barcodes. Fitbit also has some great
apps including Starbucks. I opted for the rose gold version to
have NFC payment functionality. One of the first things I did was
purchase a rose gold metal mesh band from a third party seller to
replace the woven band. The metal mesh band is great and was very
reasonably priced. I have very small wrists, and the Fitbit Versa
fits me fine and is very lightweight and comfortable to wear. The
absolute best things about this watch are battery life (on day
three and still above 30%), great visibility even outdoors,
waterproof capabilities, and ease of use (once you get all the
functionality working and apps loaded). The only thing I'm still
working on is getting music controls to work properly when
playing music from my phone. That's definitely buggy based on the
message boards, but I haven't spent a lot of time troubleshooting
it yet. It's a Fitbit, so the exercise tracking is top notch. As
a smartwatch, it isn't perfect but it meets my needs. I thought I
would miss dictating texts into the watch, which was a great
Pebble feature, but it turns out that the five stock replies I
have access to (and can customize in the phone app) are
sufficient most of the time. I am very happy with the Versa as a
replacement for my Pebble Time Round so far. I think the pros far
outweigh the cons and would recommend this to any Android phone
user who wants excellent fitness tracking with decent smartwatch
capabilities. UPDATE: I've now had the watch for a few weeks and
still love it. I did get music controls working. The trick is to
do a double bluetooth connection (the music specific one is
called Versa Classic) and then the music controls work when I
have my phone connected to a bluetooth headset. Since I mainly
use this while exercising, this meets my needs. The only two
features I miss from my Pebble Time Round are the ability to
initiate calls from my wrist and the ability to send texts (not
just reply to incoming ones), but otherwise, this watch is an
improvement in every way from the Pebble Time Round. Hopefully
third party apps will help fill these two gaps as the Versa gains
in popularity.
