Hi everyone Abby here and welcome back to Tech Tuesday I'm going to be comparing the
Fitbit Versa 3 to the Garmin vivoactive 4S but before I get started make sure to hit
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Here I have the Fitbit Versa 3 in the colour thistle soft gold and this is a new colour
that Fitbit has please and here I have the Garmin vivoactive 4S in the colour dust Rose
like gold so today im going to be talking about some notable differences and similarities
between these two Smartwatch and left timestamp in the description for key points I'm going
to be talking about so you can just head there if you want to jump at anything in particular
so starting off I'm going to talk about the design obvious difference in design is that
the vivoactive 4S has a circular watch this while the Fitbit Versa 3 has a square watch
face and we can see that the heart rate sensor differs well so we could do it the Fitbit
hurry Center is smooth and it is actually larger than they need Garmin sensor inside
the Garment Center is has a little bit of a bump here I want to say that you can the
heart rate sensors I'm finding both of them pretty accurate and I would have been to your
design is that the Fitbit Versa 3 has just one button on the left here and it's kind
of like an indented button that's like a pressure when you push on it where as the Garmin vivoactive
4S have two physical buttons on the right side that have different present display so
the display on the Garmin vivoactive 4S is a translucent Garmin display you know that
typical Garmin display has been around for years now this room display is great and you
know how its tuition like if it's really sunny out you're going to be able to see your watch
face really well it's also really good at cancelling out the glae and it does also have
a built-in Brightness that's what you do tap it or if you kind of turn on gesturing it
lights up your screen they're coming over to the Fitbit Versa 3 this one does have a
AMOLED display and this display is you know brighter it has more punchy colours more vibrant
colours but it does also have a lot more glare and this is not an always-on display on the
Fitbit hear you kind of just turn on the display using gestures or tapping it you can have
the option to turn on always on display for certain watch faces but in my experience when
you do that you only get about two days a daughter live so honestly I don't think it's
worth it to it as a battery like I don't even consider that because most people aren't going
to use that have a larger watch band than the Garmin vivoactive
4S and just comparing a side-by-side you can see the stuff like a couple of millimetres
of difference here and in addition to the size different there's a difference in you
know the way that these watch band function so on the Garmin vivoactive 4S we have the
traditional you know class watch band and it does have a quick release mechanism and
is 18 mm band and on the Fitbit Versa 3 we have fitbit's new Infinity band so this one
has a completely different kind of mechanism on how you take it out and put it in and in
my experience I definitely find the infinity band harder to use than the quick-release
band just in my experience you try not to push it down to salmon and pull it out but
do both simultaneously with one hand as difficult and I find that if you like pushed too much
you can break it so that's something to keep in mind there you don't have to be kind of
here for when you are digging up the band that could just be like no difficulty for
me I just might not have that issue but I definitely find it easier to replace the bands
on the Garmin vivoactive 4S another thing about the band is that the Fitbit Versa 3
days, two sides dance it comes with the small and a large band however the Garmin vivoactive
4S just comes once I've been I will say nothing watch band that is included with the Garmin
vivoactive 4S can fit a variety up their different wrists are you have a 7 interest and if it's
me really well they both have smooth silicone that is on your wrist and it's very comfortable
to wear and here we can see that the Garmin vivoactive 4S does have a nice kind of like
a gritty texture diamond pattern and it's one that we talked about the weight difference
between these watches so he has a weight of 42 grams of 40 grams so they are very similar
in weight and then was like wait on your wrist all right guys do not talk about the battery
life there's definitely a difference between battery life for these two smart watches so
the Fitbit Versa 3 has a quoted battery of up to six days where as the Garmin vivoactive
4S has a coded battery life of up to 7 days now in terms of my uses which I'm going to
put on screen for you guys finding that the battery life is not as good as quoted guys
so on the Fitbit Versa 3 I'm finding a dead battery only lasts about 4 days like 3 to
4 days of really just with my use this while the Garmin vivoactive 4S actually lasts about
5 days solidly with my usage all right so now I'm just going to show you guys the boxes
so you can see what they look like up close they both kind of show generally what the
watches can do but I do like the way that growing kind of list all the stats right there
for you on the bus I just think that's more kind of user-friendly so now I want to talk
about music which is really important to me on the Fitbit Versa 3 you cannot I repeat
cannot download your Spotify playlist or your own physical music at your house or my computer
onto this watched that was something that is very frustrating to me because he used
to be able to do that on the Versa but they took it off for the versa 3 so the only way
for you to download music is to get like a Deezer subscription and download your playlist
there which I personally am not going to do I have Spotify ready I love using it so what
you can do with the versa if 3 is that you can use it to control your music from your
rest if you have your phone already with you so basically you like sync your phone to your
versa 3 and then open Spotify and then you can use you know your watch to control Spotify
that's not ideal however with the Garmin vivoactive 4S you can download your miss you can download
music but you have to be physical computer you can download Spotify music and playlist
and you can download using Deezer Amazon music and more and you can actually physically download
them on to your fear watching you can use it phone free and for me that's used because
sometimes you just don't want to carry my phone with me if I'm not going for a walk
or run I just want to be like light and a lot of the time I'm wearing leggings that
just don't have pockets so having the option to just go with no phone is fantastic do you
guys know that both of these watches have Bluetooth capabilities you're able to just
take care of your wireless headphones to them so you can kind of just like his eyes that
he was in your phone and not the Fitbit Versa 3 has that the Garmin vivoactive 4S doesn't
is that it does have like Alexa or Google Assistant built-in so you have the option
to use either of those with some people might really enjoy it and it does have a built-in
mic here where you can like talk to it and you could also take phone calls you know off
your wrist if your phone is within range synced your smartwatch that might be great feature
for you if that's something you're interested in but I do want to say that I said mine up
to use it with Google Assistant I want to say that it's faulty I will all the time like
you don't talk to Google and then it will be like oh not connect to your phone it's
just a very good she had say it works maybe like every one out of four times and because
you're only able to take phone calls if your Versa 3 is in range of your phone I rather
just take a call on my phone done with my watch alright guys now we can talk about kind
of easy to use and how to use it so the agreement vivoactive 4S does have two buttons on the
right here and these buttons I find are super helpful I really like the two buttons hear
the different functionalities work well here on the Fitbit Versa 3 it does have one but
other than that it works great it's very quick to use it at so informative use here find
a Garmin vivoactive 4S easier or to use in my opinion to know I talk about Fitness activity
tracking accuracy the Fitbit Versa 3 is not as accurate I will tell you guys that off
the jump it record less steps are required less distance as well I went for a 5K walk
and they supported me walking 4.5 k whereas my Garmin recorded me walking 5.01 which is
accurate I mean personally some people might not find it as a big difference but for me
I do I like my activities to be monitored accurately and I don't like the versa telling
me that I didn't walk 5K when I know I did other than that I do find my heart rate monitors
for both are very accurate and just using the built-in GPS because both of these to
have a built-in GPS using them for a walk I will definitely say that the Garmin vivoactive
4S has it better like built-in GPS it takes about sometimes a minute to two minutes to
actually connect once you get outside and it's pretty accurate when it comes to like
you determining your pace and your distance and all that stuff but with the Fitbit Versa
3 it's not as accurate here so I want to say that it connected to the GPS faster than the
Garmin did but once it was connected I had it disconnect on me two times they just kind
of lost signal it was kind of frustrating to me have it just randomly disconnect when
I'm going on my walk because I wanted to you know the accurate recording everything give
me the pace a recorded me going slower than it actually was so that was something that
I also found a little frustrating I wish that it could have been more accurate in that instance
so I think that they definitely need to kind of fix their accuracy on the built-in GPS
because I know that when I was using previous if it's like the Inspire 2 with the Kinect
GPS off my phone it was definitely likes pain on accuracy with my Garmin they're all right
guys the last Lee I'm going to talk about the Sleep accuracy so both of these fitness
trackers do track your sleep and they also have options to track your spo2 so you can
track that kind of continuously during the day or you can track that just at night I
have the spo2 turned off because it does kind of impact your battery life a lot more Fitbit
is the best sleep tracker on the market in my opinion after trying so many Fitbit wins
here so I I have on screen you can see my sleeping data on my and on my Garmin so Fitbit
is more accurate they can tell exactly when you're sleeping when you're awake when you're
in deep Sleep REM sleep all that stuff accurately and the Garmin is not as accurate especially
when it comes to time awake they'll be like oh you were awake for 4 minutes during the
night and I'm just like no I wasn't right now is wait for half an hour like I woke up
during the night I went to get a glass of water or sometimes Garmin doesn't really talk
that like you like you're just up in bed like your phone it will talk to you this evening
when you weren't sleeping so in terms of here you can see that the Fitbit is more accurate
in terms of the duration of my sleep and each my sleep for versus the Garmin which is less
accurate here the Garmin vivoactive 4S is good at sleep tracking it's not horrible by
any means it's just not as accurate as the Fitbit is if you're asking me which one is
better which one you know I prefer I prefer the Garmin 4S I thought has been my kind of
staple Smartwatch for a while now I think it's going to be for another while also as
the Garmin vivoactive 4S has a lot more functions than the Versa 3 I had to list them on screen
for you so you can see what the vivoactive 4S can do that the Fitbit Versa 3 can't because
it has all the extra functionality it's more useful for me and it also comes down to design
preference do you want a Square watch face you on a circular watch face Eric I suppose
that's a difference in price between these two smart watches so the Fitbit Versa 3 retails
for to $299.99 Canadian plus tax or to $229.95 American and the Garmin vivoactive 4S retails
for $479.99 Canadian or $349.99 USD overall I think these are both excellent smart watches
and if you pick up either I think you'll be happy now determining which one is best for
you to side which functions are most important to you if you're someone who cares about your
sleep data more if you like Square watch faces if you like the AMOLED display you might want
to go for the Fitbit Versa 3 if you're someone who likes circular watch faces a little bit
thinner in a watch band always on display better battery life and accurate activity
tracking and more functions overall you might want to go for the Garmin vivoactive 4S so
if you're looking to buy the Garmin vivoactive 4S or the Fitbit Versa 3 I'm going to go ahead
place I like in the description for you to use so that's all I have for you guys today
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