hey what's up it's Jerad with State of Tech and I wanted to talk about the
difference between the Fitbit flex and the Fitbit Versa now whenever I get a
new piece of tech I always get asked questions about it a lot of the people
that I know personally are always wondering what I'm carrying on me as far
as a phone or a tablet or a watch and so I get questions quite often and the
Fitbit has always been like my consistent device because I'll switch
back and forth between iPhone and Android and Fitbit is really the only
kind of cross-platform device that gives me the features and the tracking
information that I want you know and and can go between the two different
platforms so I wanted to talk a little bit about the difference between these
two because they're significantly priced different and they also offer a lot of
different features so the Fitbit flex is one of fitbit's
original devices it's simply a tracker of movement it doesn't track your heart
rate or really anything else but it does have an extremely long battery life and
now with the Fitbit flex 2 it's waterproof I mean it's it is a pretty
fantastic little piece of tech however it doesn't give you that full spectrum
of data like the Fitbit Versa does the Fitbit Versa also tracks your heart rate
and has other sensors inside of it and especially with the heartrate it's able
to tell a lot more about how your fitness is going of course if with just
the movement or the activity tracker you know if you're running or doing anything
it only can track your movement it can't track any additional data having the
heart rate data and the fitbit Versa of course gives it the ability to give you
a little bit more rich information it can track kind of the different zones
whether you're in like more of a fat burn zone or a higher cardio zone it can
track all that stuff and an alternative to that when you're sleeping it can also
track and give you much better sleep data because it can track where your
heart rate is it learns where you know your resting heart rate is when you're
awake where your resting heart rate is when you're sleeping
maybe when you're walking it's knowing and being able to kind of
all that data together and give you a better look at what your sleep looks
like so for me I really like that because it now I know the quality of my
sleep as opposed to just being a awake or or asleep which you know you're only
gonna get that awake or asleep with the standard Fitbit and a lot of
other watches are really only giving you that information as well so you get a
lot better data out of the Fitbit Versa as far as that goes so beyond that the
Fitbit Versa also has a nice display you can see the information here on it which
with the Fitbit flex you have to you have the kind of LEDs here and it shows
you where you're at but as far as exact data you have to go to the to your phone
app for that and that data there isn't really much of it there so it's really
more of just like your standard your standard step counter as far as that
goes where the Versa adds a lot more with the verse a you can you can see
incoming calls and text messages you can hang up on a call if you need to with a
future update for Android you're gonna be able to respond to your text messages
from the watch probably not on the iPhone because Apple locks that down but
at least you can still see the text messages also your calendar activity
you'll get your notifications popping up here which is great I like being able to
tap between my heart rate my steps and my calories burn for the day there are
some apps in here your exercise and coach apps which are fantastic if you're
doing you know going for a run or doing something like that you can track that
and then there's also coaches right here so maybe you have a little bit of free
time you're at the gym or maybe you're on a lunch break you've got you know
10-minute ABS a seven-minute workout just some different some different coach
activities that you can use in here and then of course if you I think of you
subscribe to that within the Fitbit app you get access to a ton more stuff which
is great I mean it's good to have that just right in your watch and you can see
the movements on the screen you can do those workouts that's something that you
would need some you know an app you need your phone or something like that if you
do that with the Flex alarms of course you can set alarms for the Fitbit flex
to wake you up however the Fitbit Versa vibrates a lot
harder I've gotten to the point where I just wouldn't feel the vibration of the
Fitbit flex in the morning but the Fitbit verse I definitely feel because
it has a bigger bigger vibration I guess you could say and of course there's also
the screen feedback there whereas with the Fitbit flex probably in my sleep I
just tap it a couple of times and then it shuts up whereas the Fitbit verse
I've got to push a button on the side - - to shut it up I guess you could say
weather data timers Starbucks app Pandora I mean my
nest I can I can do some minimal SmartWatch stuff with this watch which
is great I could sync some music over - it connects some bluetooth headphones
it's just not as great of a process as some other devices but it's better than
nothing which the Fitbit flex doesn't offer that stuff so overall you know the
battery life on your Fitbit flex is gonna be a little bit better I normally
get about four to five days out of my Fitbit flex and it's a bit old we're on
the Fitbit verse I get three to four days depending on the usage if I'm not
working out not really doing anything too active I'm getting four days easy
out of the Fitbit versa if I'm using the activity trackers the coach you know
using a little bit more of the features inside the watch it may even dip down
into the two day range but what's nice about it is that it charges up fast on
average I'm getting about three three-and-a-half days of use out of the
Fitbit Versa I love all of the data that it's giving me it's giving me better
data over and above the Flex and so with that said I think the price difference
is definitely worth it so if you're looking for something you can wear 24/7
to you know track your movement throughout the day track your workouts
when you have time for fitness track your sleep because that's important to
you the Fitbit verse is definitely going to
be a much better all-around overall device so if you're thinking about
upgrading from a flex or maybe even jumping in and deciding what Fitbit is
right for you it really comes down to what kind of
data you're wanting and how you're wanting to interact with that data
the Fitbit verse is definitely going to give you a lot more data a lot better
insight into that data in the Fitbit app as I've kind of shown you on screen
while I've been talking but the Fitbit flex is really small really minimal
stays out of the way isn't a distraction and so there are things to be said about
the Fitbit flex and the simplicity so really you know just you just have to
kind of consider the data and what you want to be wearing on you all the time
if you're wanting a watch if you're wanting that better data if you're
wanting a little bit of minimal notifications from your phone the verse
is a no-brainer there now if you're wondering about the versa between the
Apple watch I have a video for that I also have a comparison video between the
verse and the Apple watch so you can check those out I'll make sure to link
to those in the description below if you're considering purchasing one of
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