hi everyone Abby here welcome back to my channel for Tech Tuesday or welcome if you're new today
I'm going to be reviewing the new Fitbit Versa 4. but before I get started make sure to hit
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see an unboxing of this Smartwatch I've already done that for you and you can find that at the
top right or in the description below when you're done watching this so I currently have this in the
Color Copper Rose we have a copper casing and a rose colored band and the current prices as
of recording are 299.99 Canadian and 229.99 American foreign spec highlights about this
watch you can get an idea about what it can do so this watch has a AMOLED color display it has
touch screen operation it has a optional always on display a battery life up to six days it has sleep
tracking 24-hour heart rate monitoring with high and low heart rate alerts it has Alexa a voice
assistant it tracks a variety of workouts such as running swimming and yoga attracts a variety
of daily metrics like your calories burned your steps your distance walked it also has built-in
GPS it has Fitbit pay you can view and reply to smartphone notifications and I've listed some
more things for you on screen now these are not all of the specs about this watch but these are
the most important I think so one thing I really like about Fitbit is that we do get hourly step
reminders or your goal reminders for me to steps and I like that because often you know
you can be sitting for a while and then an hour has passed and you're like oh I didn't really
walk I was just you know watching a video or doing something so I like getting those hours
early reminders that just get you up and going get you stepping so you can get that 250 an hour
all right guys so this is what it looks like on me
and I do have a seven inch wrist and I'm currently wearing the large band here this
does fit a variety of resizes and I have all the wrist sizes that could fit for you guys on
screen so to change the band you're just going to kind of pull in this little part right here
and then you pull the band out and then you take the other van this is a small
one and you just push it in until you hear a click and this is the small band on me
it's on the small band I'm all the way kind of to the second hole at the bottom here so
when it comes to wearing the Versa four I am finding it pretty comfortable to wear I haven't
had any issues with irritation and I do think it looks quite nice on as well I'm personally
finding it just a little bit big on me um on my wrist personally but you guys might think
different you might find it too big too small or you might think it's just right for you
so as I told you we do have an AMOLED display here right now I actually have it on dim brightness but
you can actually go ahead and turn it up if you want to so this is dim normal and Max I'll do
it once again if the lights off hopefully so you guys can see it a little bit easier so max
dim normal so those are the different brightness settings and I am able to keep it on Dim All the
Time whether I'm indoors and Outdoors and read it clearly myself but you do have the option to
pump it up if you want to and one thing about this display is that it is quite reflective
as you guys can see if you're not looking at it spot on there is definitely a lot of reflection
here this is what it looks like Outdoors under some natural lighting so I was able to catch
it kind of at an overcast day over here and at a sunny day as well and I did find it easy to
read outside in both situations so if you're someone who's going to be using this Outdoors
for you know GPS activities or just outdoors in general I don't think you're going to have
a problem reading it but you might need to pump up the brightness depending on your preferences
all right guys so now I'm going to show you the basics of how to use this smart watch so
the first thing you're going to want to do is turn on the display once again if you want to
you can turn on the optional always on display and you can do that right here with that button
but as a warning if you do turn on the always on display your battery life goes down drastically
I'm talking I couldn't even get a full day so to turn on the display you can go ahead and tap it
you can also go ahead and press the button to turn on the display
and if you have the screen wake function turned on you can turn it towards your wrist and the screen
will light up so once you do have the display on you can go ahead and swipe up to see any of your
notifications if you do have some you can reply to them there you can either send a pre-made response
or you can if you have an Android phone you can do a spoken response using Alexa your voice assistant
next you can swipe down and when you do swipe down you can see shortcut menu here so you can
just turn on quick things like do not disturb you can change your brightness settings and more
and once you do click on the settings menu you have options to do a lot more when you
want to change things on the watch as well pressing this button can send you back also
swiping right can send you back as well if I do swipe to the right from the home page we are going
to see your apps and from the home page if I swipe left you're also going to see your apps as well
and if you do want to go ahead and click on one you can go ahead and open it up and see some more
information about it and finally if you go ahead and hold this button here you can open up your
shortcut so for me that's alarms but you can set it to a variety of things like you can set it to
your voice assistant and that's it guys that's the basics of how to use this watch here it is pretty
straightforward and it's a nice clean layout so you can find things pretty easily when you need to
so I'm going to show you guys some watch face options for this watch so if you head
over to the gallery section on the Fitbit app you can go ahead and see a variety of
watch face options depending on what you're looking for if you're looking for something
more analog or digital if you're looking for a lot of data something basic you can choose
a variety of options here there's at least been 50 that I have counted swiping through
and kind of looking at all the options there and there are free and paid options as well
all right guys so when it comes to battery life for the Smartwatch it does have a coded battery
life up to six days but with my uses things like UPS blocks runs daily alarms timers and more I
have gotten four days of battery life with this watch so for me that's okay you only really have
to charge it like once a week maybe once or twice depending on if you're a heavy user or not and I
think that could fit well into a lot of people's Lifestyles I will say that when it does come to
charging this it does charge very fast so within just 12 minutes of charging you can get up to
a full days of use and it does charge from zero to full within about two hours if you're someone
wondering about the optional always on display you do have that available to you but when I used it
I wasn't even able to get a full day I got about 16 hours and then it died on me so for me that's
personally not something I would use often because I don't want to charge my watch every single day
so when it comes to sleep tracking on this watch I found it to be pretty accurate and to get any
sleep data you do have to sync your smartwatch to your phone in the mornings and then your
phone processes your sleep and then sends it to your watch so you can see the hours you're
sleeping your sleep score and I did also have it tracking my oxygen saturation during sleep
as well so that's basically all you could see on the watch here if you do go into the Fitbit
app you are able to see more information so this is that same data but on my phone so if you can
see your sleep stages here foreign guys so now we're talking about the GPS performance so I've
used this to go on some outdoor walks and runs and the GPS connection has been really good it
hasn't dropped it's been just reliable I will say one thing I don't like about it is that it's a bit
slow to connect to the GPS once you get outside it takes about two to four minutes for the smartwatch
to connect to the GPS and there's something I don't love because you kind of have to wait there
for your watch to track your location so you're missing out on some data initially at the start
of your workout but once you kind of like look back at the data it's been pretty spot-on for me
set a timer for 10 minutes
starting now so Alexa does give you spoken responses you can choose to
turn it off if you just want to see visual responses Alexa can be a helpful tool if you
are someone who likes to use you know voice assistance to do things like set timers you
can use it to kind of turn on and off Smart devices in your house that are connected to
Alexa so that can be helpful if you're someone who has those devices call home
calling with Alexa is not supported on this device instead so that's just an
example of something you can't do with Alexa that I want to let you guys know
so when it comes to activity tracking on this watch I am finding it pretty accurate when it
comes to your steps or your heart rate you know all that stuff I have been finding it
to be pretty accurate one thing I'm liking about this is that it's not overestimating
my steps because sometimes if you are doing things like moving your arms talking to someone
like I don't know doing some type of motions this isn't really tracking those things as
steps so I am liking that because I'm getting you know an accurate number of steps here and
that's an improvement I have seen over the past because I did find on some other Fitbit watches
I've used in the patch they did overestimate my steps so if you guys are looking to do a workout
there's a variety of different options you can choose from and you can go ahead and add extra
options in the app as well and I'm going to show you guys all the exercise available
foreign
we do have a variety of options
so talking about cons here one con for me is that when I am doing GPS activities I like to
do intervals so like running a walking for example and if I am doing intervals I find
that the pace that the Smartwatch is showing during my GPS you know runs it does take some
time for it to adjust and pick up on your speed change another major con for me is that there is
no music functionality on this Smartwatch for this price point I think we should definitely
have music options on here the Versa one you were able to download your own music on it which was
awesome and I took the full advantage of that and then going forward the Versa two three four
they just you can't do that anymore and for this one what's even worse is that you don't have the
option to use Deezer you don't have the option to use Spotify it's just no music functionality
whatsoever and I don't know why Fitbit made that choice but for me that's something I
don't like because I love to be able to listen phone free just using my smart watch and some
Bluetooth headphones but you can't do that on this watch another thing I don't like is that
there is no Women's Health app available for for the Versa I'm hoping Fitbit does
change that soon we do have Women's Health on the app which is nice but I would have
liked to see you know some options for logging daily symptoms and stuff on your watch as well
and all right guys considering the price the quality the color functionality the battery life
the performance ease of use of this Smartwatch the comfort and everything like that I would go ahead
and give this a 7.9 out of 10. and I definitely do give it a thumbs up so if you guys are looking to
get the Fitbit Versa 4 here I've gone ahead and left a link down in the description for you to
use and if you guys are interested in the Fitbit Versa 3 if you're kind of comparing the two I've
done a full review on the Fitbit Versa 3 which you can find at the top right or in the description
below in terms of speed design everything like that I'm not finding a huge difference here and
honestly I'm using both of them I do prefer the Versa 3 for a couple reasons such as it does have
some music functionality I do prefer the design as well and I like the price guys it's a lot
lower than the Versa 4 and if there's anything I missed today that you want to know just go ahead
and drop a comment below thanks for watching guys and make sure to like comment and subscribe bye