Gadgetory

what exactly is a SmartWatch is it something that's super hooked in and deeply connected to your phone or is this I'm more like a fitness tracker with some basic functions and notifications that's meant to be it more like a laid back watch Fitbit has a new SmartWatch called the Versa that's less expensive than Apple watch has a longer battery life you can swim with it and also get some notifications I've been wearing it in San Francisco for about a week as I've been on vacation and it worked so has it been working pretty good the nice thing about the Versa is that notifications come in kind of like the old Pebble watch if you wore that you can check them but you can't answer to them you can do quick responses if you've got an Android phone the rest of it is really by checking time checking fitness stats starting workouts music is kind of a pain it's got a music remote that connects to your phone but if you want to put music on your watch you got the side load it from your computer which is not great or use Pandora or Deezer I don't know who uses those now it also has some things I really like I love the fact that it vibrates to wake me up on a smart alarm so I can set it go to sleep and it's got that and I sleep tracking which is something that I actually use to remind myself how little sleep I'm getting the other thing I really like is got three buttons on it which are customizable so those buttons plus a pretty responsive touch screen I mean the you can customize for quick starts and that gives you access to all the basic controls you kinda need one thing this doesn't have is any ability to answer phone calls that doesn't have a speakerphone and this model does not have contactless payments you can pay up for about thirty dollars more to get a special edition that does but be forewarned Fitbit pay does not support a heck of a lot of banks including my credit cards the other thing this doesn't have is any sort of voice assistant so if you want to do any voice setting of timers forget about it there's no microphone on this thing fit fit versa also doesn't have GPS it connects with your phone to do connected GPS tracking but on its own it doesn't do any GPS you're gonna have to get the Fitbit ionic or the Apple watch does that you on the series three Fitbit claims four days of battery life on the Versa but after three days of solid use it's already almost out of batteries so I'd say it's a little more like three days battery life not four it's a it's a lower key watch so again this is not as step-up and features as a lot of high-end smartwatches but with its ability to run apps and have watch faces and do a bit more than your average Fitbit and the fact that it's waterproof something a lot of fitbit's don't have I really like its overall feature set I think it's the best Fitbit that's out there and a two hundred dollars is not too expensive if you like the design and you like the way that feels I would recommend going for it but stay tuned because we're going to do a lot more workout testing with it including comparisons against the Apple watch Fitbit says just enough to be an everyday good watch for me