Fitbit Versa 2 Health and Fitness Smartwatch with Heart Rate, Music, Alexa Built-In, Sleep and Swim Tracking, Black/Carbon, One Size (S and L Bands Included)

Love the watch and all of it features. Use it to track my exercising, steps and sleep. Also great for receiving text messages and phone calls and checking the weather.

In 2012 I bought a Fitbit One. Just slip it in a pocket on the way to work and get the results each and every day, and check the overall results weekly, monthly, yearly as time goes by. Fine. But earlier this year (2021) ole Fitbit One finally bit the dust. What to do? Looked and looked and looked. Just another One-like Fitbit or go up a notch to one of the smartwatch trackers? Had misgivings, but finally decided on the Versa 2 (Versa 3 seemed "too loaded" with bells and whistles I didn't see how I could or would use). My experience? Well, it has been outstanding. Simply outstanding. I cannot praise the Fitbit Versa 2 highly enough. I won't go into all of its many benefits, save to comment on just 2 of them: 1. It provides what to me is in depth analysis of my sleep each night - which, given my schedule, I need and like to keep track of, and 2. You tell it the hours you are usually active each day, and during each of those hours, if you have not walked at least 250 steps (or whatever goal you tell it), then 10 minutes before the hour it will buzz your wrist so you know to get up and get moving. I sit, research and write all day long, and without the Versa, I would maintain that status the entire work day; but not with the Versa 2. Finally, I had two main concerns when I bought the Versa 2: 1. If I wear it all the time, then what about charging (My Experience: Put it in its charger that came with it when I head to the shower before going to work each morning, and it's 100% when I walk out the door 20 minutes later - from being down to 85% overnight); and 2. Can the vast majority of its features and benefits be accessed without joining the premium subscription you can get from Fitbit with each of its devices - because I absolutely would not fall for that (My Experience: I love it just as it comes and see no real use for me to go premium subscription). There's just one feature it offers that I have not tried but definitely want to: the "Relax" feature. But I'm just too busy. Sad. Great Product! You'll definitely enjoy it, and pay a lot more attention to how active you're being and how much sleep and the quality of the sleep you're getting.

I loved everything about this watch, from the accuracy, the tracking it does for me for sleep etc. last me about 7 days on one charge. I like how it showed the seconds in the time as well (helpful when getting BPM rooming patients) I bought it Early December 2019 and finally a month ago (mid April 2022) took a plunk and quit working. The face came on and off, it would still synch to the app on my iPhone so that’s how I got my scores still. Tried doing all the tricks and resetting it multiple times… In the last 1.5 weeks the battery only last for maybe 1 to 1.5 days now. When it started the face would come on for a few hours and then went fuzzy but still would communicate to my phone. I read some reviews and apparently versa 2 lifespan is 16-18 months so I guess I got lucky for almost 2.5 years but still when I bought it back when, you’d think it would last longer for the amount you pay. They recently added “irregular heart rhythms” on the model but it took a poop shortly after. My Alexa never worked on it but didn’t mean that much so I didn’t really care. Contemplating on getting the same one after reading other fitbits reviews but ughh…

I love the convenience it provides, and its got plenty to give. However a lot of it is very focused on just health stats. Heart rate, sleep recording, steps taken, calories burned, all great. If you're looking for a health tracker that can double as a general purpose smartwatch, this probably isn't going to be it.First, my biggest complaints and issues.It has a Spotify app, but do not think this means you play Spotify with it. It is a Spotify CONTROL app. Meaning you are just control the instance of Spotify that is on your phone, through the watch. You don't store any songs on the watch, and you cannot leave your phone behind on a run. Controlling your Spotify with the watch app only works about half the time, though, so that's a bummer when it decides not to let you.You CAN load the watch with music, but it will be via downloading the MP3s yourself and loading them manually onto it. Even then, the only time I tried doing that, it didn't seem to want to play my music. The Pandora app seems to be more in line with what I wish the Spotify app to be. You can download stations for offline play and leave your phone at home while you go for a run. I can't attest for how well it works, because I don't use Pandora, but it seems to work the way I want Spotify to.It has Amazon Alexa built in! Which is nice except that it is a pretty stripped down version. I think the most complicated question I got an actual answer for from it was about how many miles from the Earth to the Moon. I wouldn't recommend using Alexa if you can avoid it anyways, since the microphone isn't the most accurate when there's much noise around you. I work a loud job and even when putting the watch right up to my mouth and cupping my hand over it, it had large issues hearing me accurately, if at all.Why?I think a lot of the problem comes from how it interacts with your phone. Many general smartwatches, either with Android's WearOS or Apples' WatchOS, work in a link where the watch talks to the phone in general via Bluetooth, and the appropriate tasks are sent to their specific apps. FitBit really only talks to the FitBit app and anything from the app store.Google recently purchased FitBit, and hopefully they'll bring whatever software and hardware they need to make their own WearOS into a competent fitness tracker so that I can have a watch thats good at both fitness tracking and smartwatch functions.The run-down/good stuff:So what I'm really trying to say is this: FitBit makes a great fitness tracker. If you want a fitness tracker AND good smartwatch in one package, I'd say that the only company with those at the moment is Apple, but I personally am not a fan of them. If you need JUST a great fitness tracking watch, I'd recommend saving the money and getting one of the more basic FitBits.The fit and finish of the FitBit Versa 2 is great. Its got a good screen and the battery life is stellar. I constantly forget to charge not because it needs charging so much but because it needs to be charged so little that I forget I even have to charge it at all. The watchband that came with it gave me extreme dry and itchy skin on my wrist that started flaking and peeling to the point of bleeding, but after finding a comfortable velcro band, I forget I'm even wearing it most of the time.