Fitbit Versa 2 Health and Fitness Smartwatch

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Broke after 6 months. Totally died after only 6 months and cannot be revived. Awful.

Original product, good quality and fast shipping. High quality product with exceptional value for its price (discounted)

FITBIT overall score: 2 stars. I’m going to put this out there….. I am not a fan of fitbit. I think it’s crap that you have to pay extra for services they advertise. I get it if they have extra stuff like coaches and videos, but the tracker related stuff should not be charged for. I tried the premium membership and I prefer beachbody workout on my TV than the tiny screen on my phone giving me a workout…. and if I was traveling and had no choice, I could still use my beachbody app. The only feature that I would have used is the sleep insights and I am not going to pay for a membership to use one feature that I don’t really care about. I also dislike the fact that they hype you up and act like they will consider a new feature and I have yet to see them implement a single feature I have voted for. They leave it under consideration for months and then say ‘nope’. Their reminders to move feature is only useful if you’re a total couch potato and want to be reminded to get up for the last 10 minutes of your hour. I wanted to use it to remind me to move if I haven’t reached my own hourly goal…. you’re stuck with their 250 step hourly goal. You can’t change when the reminder to move goes off either. Sooo, say I want to set an hourly goal of 1000 steps, the reminder to move sounded 10 minutes before the end of the hour (and only if I haven’t taken 250 steps) By the time I could find the graph with my hourly steps and mouse over each section to get the actual count and then add up each count, my 10 minutes was almost up. If I can’t change the 250 step count, it’s not motivating me to move MORE than I already do. If I can’t change when to remind me, then I don’t have a chance of completing it. What if my work break is at the beginning of the hour and I forgot to take my steps? The ability to change the hourly step goal and the reminder times are a simple fix and Fitbit closes their ears to people.On my fitbit charge 3, I had a work around and set a silent alarm on the fitbit app to remind me to complete my own step goal. This was fun, because I had to write down the steps I had already taken for the day and then get my steps in. I spent more time sitting in front of my computer trying to figure out how many steps I took than I did actually taking steps some day. The funny thing is, on the versa 2, it actually does show me my steps this hour… but only until I reach the 250 step goal and then I am back to using the graph on my phone again. Now the even funnier thing is, Fitbit has removed this feature of setting silent alarms on the app. At least for the Versa 2. I googled where it was and searched for THREE hours, it’s no longer there. I even watched a video that was on youtube showing it was there two months ago, but when I followed the steps, my screen didn’t match up with the video. I can set a silent alarm from my watch, but only 8 alarms total, so I can’t set an alarm to go off each hour for 12 hours to get 1000 steps each hour…… And the hours I need it to go off changes depending on the day of the week. The other feature complaint is the ‘relax feature’ I like it, BUT you can only set it for 2 or 5 minutes…. why the restriction? Why can’t I pick 10? 15? Set my own? It’s not relaxing to reset it every 5 minutes for 15 minutes.My final complaint with fitbit (there really are more, but these are the biggest ones), the user manual within the app is USELESS. Take the above example of silent alarms. If I go to the ‘how to use’ section and click on silent alarm section, you would expect a walk through of how to set a silent alarm, right? No, this is literally what is says: Silent alarms: Set a silent alarm on Versa 2. Your device gently vibrates to wake you up in the morning or alert you at a certain time of day. If you don’t dismiss an alarm, it goes off again in 9 minutes. (Btw, when I got the charge 3, it took FOREVER to figure out how to dismiss a silent alarm instead of snoozing it). And this is how the entire ‘how to use’ portion is on the app. It’s all a description on what each feature is used for, no instructions on how to set it up. Notifications? Timers? Alarms? Quick Replies? Weather?Be prepared to google search how to do EVERYTHING other than how to remove the wrapping from your watch.So why the 5 stars? Well, I knew when I bought this watch that I think fitbit trackers are the dumbest of the trackers. BUT when I got the Charge 3, I had a newborn baby. I was going to return it the day I bought it, however I discovered one redeeming quality…. it will notify me by vibrating when I have a call. I am on the clock 24 hours a day and when you have a newborn baby, the phone ringing is frustrating. Missed calls when the phone was on silent. So the notifications and quick replies gave me a reason to keep it. So I can’t give a crappy review of fitbit on this device when I knew going in that it wasn’t going to be what I wanted for a tracker. I gave it a crappy review on the Charge 3.But this time, I bought this one due to Alexa being on the watch. I have a Fire TV, an echo show, 2 echo dots, a kindle fire and a kindle paperwhite, (earbuds are on the way) I am a prime member and I have several subscribe and save items. My whole world is tied together on this watch. My packages come? Shopping list? Whatever reminders I setup through Alexa comes on my watch too. I can watch my workout on the firetv and if the baby needs me, press the button on my watch and have it pause the TV…. I can’t tell you how many times I have had to look for the remote in the baby’s toybox just to pause the tv, then rewind and pause…. lol. I know that amazon music is not tied to the versa, I am hopeful that Amazon flexes a little muscle and gets it. Or google buys fitbit out and uses common sense and adds it as a feature. But the notifications from my phone, the link to Alexa were enough for me to upgrade from the Charge 3. I have found I like the clock faces for the versa 2 and the ability to see more of my stats from the watch and less looking at the app. And being able to have Alexa log my food on myfitnesspal for me is nice too.Ok, one final complaint about fitbit….. versa 2 has Alexa…. common sense to have amazon music, right? Nope they must be getting money from Spotify and Deezer to keep it off there. But I am not paying for a second service for music when I get amazon music with everything else I need, shipping, movies, tv shows, smart house controls.UPDATE: disappointed with bluetooth range. The watch disconnects from my phone a lot. I know that some of this is the phone, however my apartment is small and my Charge 3 never lost connection while I was home. I sit my phone on my desk to keep it out of reach of my toddler and rely on my watch to notify me if I have a call (can’t hear the ringer with the toddler and kids). Realistically, I am usually within 10 feet of my phone 90% of the time, 15 feet if I am in the kitchen. I will go to use spotify from my kitchen and it will tell me connection is lost.

As a small disclaimer – I bought my Versa 2 through a local retailer earlier in the year since I was able to take such an amount off with coupons. Were it not for that though I probably would still be using my first FitBit watch, an Alta HR to this moment. The deal was hard to pass up and just for $10 more I bought some extra bands and cases here on Amazon, perfect for me so I could keep my motivation at a high as I was expecting to be home quarantining for months.THE PROS/FEATURES:- A step-up from any old FitBit model on a budget (especially if you can get one for under $150 USD).- Battery is advertised to last 5 days, but you can potentially stretch it 1-2 days past that point.- In addition to the battery life, this thing charges pretty fast!- AMOLED screen – beautiful picture on a small screen, and plenty bright to see outside on a sunny day.- Very easy to wear for hours at a time, even through periods of sleep.- Accurate heart rate readings; I’ve noticed taking my own pulse the watch is at most 3-4 BPM off.- Application support, with a few standard with the watch – Spotify, Pandora, Alexa to name a few.- Able to setup push notifications right to your watch, from nearly every app. Even simple stuff like the news.- Appealing watch faces, with many custom choices available for download.- Waterproof to an extent, can even setup exercises for swimming activities- Able to time and track specific physical activities, including sports and use of workout equipment.- Integrated feature to find your phone by setting off a LOUD noise; do not do this with headphones in!- Able to answer or deny calls right from your watch, even supporting iOS.- Ability to track your sleep, though not perfect and some insights on that data gets locked behind a paywall.- Fun challenges to take on yourself, or compete with others.OKAY/SUB-PAR:- A majority of custom watch faces are paid, and it is a pain to determine which are free or need to be bought.- Some durability issues, which could be partially adverted with third-party cases/screen protectors.- Current price should be lowered given the recent release of the Versa 3 and Sense.- Included charger does not support watch cases, and the charging cord should be way longer.- Lack of customization when the always-on display is in use.- Cannot use applications such as Spotify or Pandora without relevant subscriptions.- The only way you can power off or reset the watch is a hidden option in the “About” area under settings.- Alexa app has no audio feedback and will lack full functionality w/o Alexa app installed on your phone.- Offers use of a tool like FitBit pay, but you can’t use FitBit pay for things like watch faces or subscriptions.- Google Assistant now supported, only for the newer watches despite previously announced to support Versa 2.- Weather app will ask you to sync if it’s been awhile, will not show any weather otherwise.- App choices are slim and are nothing compared to what you’d see on other high-end smart watches.- Should let users have more information you can track, such as how Apple lets you record things such as symptoms.THE CONS:- No built-in GPS and instead relies on your phone to track location.- Cannot respond to texts from app (such as a pre-canned message) on iOS, supported on Android.- Bare minimum Alexa features such as no support to control smart home devices.- Zero integration with Google or Apple’s health applications.- Many features locked behind premium service, despite ownership of a spendy watch.- No speaker, but I suppose this makes sense given it’s a watch and not a phone.- Warranty is not done directly through Fitbit, and they may likely direct you to Square Trade.- Lackluster customer service and have personally experienced two cases of rude customer service agents.- If you have a feature, you have to go to a vote-based suggestion forum that is essentially a graveyard for all sorts of user-submitted ideas (some examples on this later).THE BAD, UGLY:This completely concerns the Fitbit application, because I have such a strong dislike for it. First off, there’s often troubles with syncing whether it be syncing your watch where you’ll sometimes get the message it cannot find your Fitbit device – this even extends to little things like Spotify, so about once or twice a month I have to sign out and sign back in to get the Spotify app to work. What’s more is sometimes the app bugs out in little places, I’ll have times where I want to switch or install a watch face and it will get stuck (to the point of where the only fix is to change the face manually from the watch, and restart my phone). It’s also worth mentioning there are Mac and Windows versions of the Fitbit app but they’re a colossal waste of time and not fully-fledged with features like the mobile versions. Last but not least what bugs me the most is a lack of a dark mode (despite having previously suggested by users over 5+ years) which includes both the iOS and Android applications. On iOS there is also no home screen widget support, a feature Apple rolled out with their most recent firmware update. Finally and as mentioned earlier there are a number of features locked behind a premium plan which includes things like better insights on your data, workout tips and even simple recipes – this will cost you a hefty $120 a year via. monthly plan or just under $80 through an annual yearly plan; for a watch you have already paid over a hundred dollars for.OVERALL THOUGHTS:For how big the smart watch market is today, the Versa 2 being now in the past generation of Fitbit’s watches still holds up well with the caveat the sale price still hasn’t been lowered, which definitely should be the case as new watches (and even those not from Fitbit) are out with more and better features. This is a perfect option for somebody on a budget, especially if you’re an existing owner of a Fitbit watch. But because there are other options out there such as Garmin, Apple, and even Samsung you may want to do heavy research on what fits you best.Personally speaking this is my fourth year of using Fitbit devices and may consider a new model when I have the money to upgrade. However with the pile of issues the application has, the absence of not considering ideas from the community and even the price for what they are I am thinking also about other brands for my next watch.