Hello this is a very quick look at the Fitbit Versa. This is the spiritual successor so the
brilliant Pebble smartwatch it's the new fitness tracker from Fitbit. You charge
this via the little pins on the bottom and it comes with a really cool little
charging dock, it just opens up by pressing the sides, the Fitbit just clips
straight in. I found batch life on this to be very good, lasts easily three days
before needing to charge and it charges very quickly as well, obviously if you
use lots of advanced features you'll train the battery quicker, but I've
managed three days very easily. The screen on this is lovely, touch screen,
and very simple setup, nice big icons that you can click on. You can receive
notifications from various apps and you can pick the apps you want notifications
from. I've found this to be a bit hit miss but when it works it works very
well. When you swipe up you get access to the fitness center, it gives you little
tips on what you can do, and it gives you all your stats so you can check out your
steps, sleep, heart rate, and this is also available via the app and the website.
It's a really comprehensive set of stats all based on the watch data so you get
your heart rate, your sleep, sleep tracking, interval tracking all sorts.
It nudges you throughout the day to keep on moving so it lets you know how many
steps you've got left in the hour before you hit the magic 10,000 step mark and
it also has the Fitbit coach built into the Versa so this gives you little
workouts you can have a little look at what's involved and when you press play
you see a little animation and then you do the workouts and it all track it.
If you want to check out the workouts you can download the app for free, there is a
paid option but there are free workouts available, and they are the same on the
phone as they are on the watch and that means that wherever you are if you're
traveling or whatever you can do a little workout and you don't necessarily
need to use your phone. The only time you really need your phone is if you want to
track anything via GPS because this is also an mp3 player you load songs on via
your computer and once you've paired it with a set of headphones you can play
music directly from the watch to your headphones so you don't need to carry
around your bulky phone. This has other advantages
as well because you can load a card up onto the watch and this can be used as a
payment method so when you're out and about if you've got contactless payment
as an option you can simply tap the watch to the contactless point and pay
for your goods. The Versa has a number of other apps pre-installed so you can
checkout Pandora, Strava and Deezer which is a music streaming
service, unfortunately there's no sign of Spotify at the time of review. I've been
waiting a long time for something to replace my trusty Pebble and I have to
say the new Versa has made me not want to wear the pebble ever again the
screens brilliant you can change the straps on the back in the same way you
could with the Pebble and there's also a range of clock faces available to
download via the Fitbit app and quite a few of them will look familiar if you
are used to the Pebble. Overall then I found this to be a brilliant watch it is
a fitness watch first if you're not looking for fitness tracking this may be
a bit overkill for you and I have to say I've had a few issues with notifications
the app stores looking a little bit barren at the moment but hopefully that
will improve in time. For those looking to chill out as a relaxation mode that
is a guided breathing mode it will basically track how you breathe and then
get you to just breathe in and out and there's a visual guide on the little
screen and you have to try and turn this green from blue to green and that lets
you know you're doing this correctly. It's nice to see this included as it's
quite different from the frenetic jumping around that the watch normally
gets you to do during the coaching sessions. The styling is similar enough
to Pebble that it's really nice and subtle, it's not big and bulky, the
interface works really well, the touch screen is very responsive, it's got lots
of modes to allow you to track specific activities, so for example in the swimming
mode it will track your lengths of swimming and you can always leave this
to just track activities automatically. For those fascinated by data on
themselves this is a brilliant little gadget to have, it gives you so much
information, it loads it straight into your Fitbit account and therefore it can
work with other Fitbit devices such as the scales and other apps such as Strava.
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