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fit has been on the upswing ever since a release their Fitbit Versa it's still a fitness tracker first and SmartWatch second but everything it's supposed to do it does it very well and I still think the Versa is still the best fitness tracker in fitbit's lineup but now we have the Fitbit charge 3 it does almost everything the Versa dies but in a much smaller and inconspicuous package the new base model Fitbit charge 3 retails for $150 and the base model Fitbit Versa retails for $200 and in classic Fitbit fashion both of these trackers have limited-edition variants besides coming with an additional more premium wristband the only technical difference between a base model Fitbit and limited edition Fitbit is a built-in NFC chip so you can use your Fitbit for contactless payments similar to what you would see people with Apple watches do personally I always recommend going for the limited edition variant because you're getting an additional wristband at a discounted rate so if you want to pick either of these Fitbit sup I'll have links or description below and if you use the links it really helps out to channel at first glance the new Fitbit Taurus 3 looks identical to the previous charge 2 and that's not a bad thing the charge 3 has a very conspicuous design for people who want to wear a fitness tracker but without broadcasting to the whole world that they're wearing a fitness tracker but the torch 3 does bring some very welcomed physical and technical improvements from the charge to first stop it is much easier to remove the wristband on the charge 3 compared to the charge 2 and even the Versa you just press a button on the bottom and it pops right off so swapping bands is going to be much less of a headache the charge story also now has a solid state home button similar to what you would find on an iPhone Fitbit did this so he can swim and track your workouts with the charge 3 just like you can with the Versa whereas you couldn't swim with the charge 2 but perhaps the most notable difference between the charts 2 in charge 3 is the new touch screen the charge 2 had a haptic touchscreen meaning that it wasn't actually registering your inputs like a smartphone does it was registering the force of your tap so in order for it to register an input you had to tap it hard enough BIF method did work pretty well but it did lead to a lot of failed attempts but the advantage of having a haptic touch the charge to meant that it was still pretty usable even when the screen was covered in sweat or water whereas the Taurus 3 now has a traditional touch screen meaning that it's going to register your taps and swipes just like any other smartphone and just like the Versa and using the touchscreen on the charge 3 is pretty easy but things do start to get a little tricky when the screen is 1 and this is pretty normal for touchscreens but as long as you wipe it down you'll be all right and just like before the Taurus 3 still has a black and white all that screens similar to the charge 2 and this screen is very easy to see even in the brightest of days but if you are hard of seeing then you might be better off springing for the Versa I found that even with the Tor stories largest text option some people were still having issues even just telling the time under charge 3 but now let's talk about what the tourists we can actually do from an activity tracking standpoint the charge 3 can track everything the verse again they can both track your steps calories burned heart rate floors climbed various different workouts sleep and they both have female health tracking capabilities and all the data that these fitness trackers collect gets sent over to fitbit's app and fitbit's app is still one of the best fitness tracking apps out there it manages to display your stats in a very easy to read and understand manner but if you really want to dig in deep and see more detail stats about your workouts then you can do that now even though the charge 3 inverse are both able to track the same things we did find slight performance differences between them hard we track an accuracy between the charge 3 and versa is relatively the same but we didn't know the step tracking an automatic workout smart tracking was a little less accurate on the charge to read and on the Versa mainly the charge 3 had a harder time automatically detecting when a were cat has started and ended and the torch 3 on a regular basis did overestimate how many steps were taken or how for a user had ran and the torah' stories lower accuracy could possibly have something to do with its lack of a 3-axis gyroscope something that the Versa does have over the charge 3 now if you're an avid runner both the charge 3 and vs. support connected GPS meaning that if you want to get a more accurate stats about your runs or jogs then both trackers can connect your phone and use its GPS so you can map out your runs and more accurate paced readout but this also means you're gonna have to bring your phone along now the reason neither of these fitbit's have built-in GPS is because fitbit wanted to keep costs down and they also wanted to keep their trackers as small as possible so if you're okay with bringing your phone along on your runs or jogs then if it will be fine or if you really need something with built-in GPS then you might want to look into something from Garmin or maybe even an Apple watch another upgrade the torch three has over the charge two is that it now has an advertised battle knife of seven days versus five days but we found out with all day and night where and with one hour of daily interval training the charge three is really only good for about four and a half days maybe five days from a full charge whereas the Versa has an advertised battery life for four days and under the same circumstances it's really really good for about two and a half days maybe three days from a full charge and to charge the torch three you have to use one of it beats many proprietary charging cradles now even though having to keep track of this proprietary charger isn't a big deal I just want to take a minute to say that this was one of our least favorite things about to charge three there have been a lot of times where we've dropped the charge three to charge and only to come back a while later to find that I didn't actually charge because it wasn't perfectly aligned I just want to point this out because this wasn't an issue with the previous charge tomb and it's also not an issue with the verson and finally let's talk about what the Versa can do that the charge 3 can't both the Versa and charge 3 can show you call text app and count on the notifications right on the screen you can even quickly respond to text with canned messages on both of these trackers but only if you're using an Android device but obviously since the Versa has that larger full-color display you're going to get larger and fuller readout of those notifications you can also download third-party apps to the Versa like you would on an Apple watch but these apps aren't as fleshed out and there aren't as many apps available compared to the Apple watch but if you want to customize your versa there is a pretty extensive library of free and paid watch faces and in general the vs. larger screen just makes it much easier to see your stats and navigate through its menus than to charge 3 but in general I think choosing between the charge 3 and verse these days is mostly about form-factor they both tried to same activity stats as one another but the versa does it a little more accurately than the charge three but still the accuracy difference between the charge three and versa isn't really going to make your break your Fitness progress you're still gonna have to get up and put the work in the charge three is a good little fitness tracker if you want something small and inconspicuous to help you keep track of and quantify your daily activity and not to mention that multi-day battery life is still pretty impressive but still the Versa is the best fitness tracker in fitbit's lineup key word being fitness tracker the Versa is a good-looking fitness tracker first in SmartWatch second the full of notifications and downloadable apps make it more useful for when you're outside of the gym but I want to go comparing it to an Apple watch if you're looking for a SmartWatch get a SmartWatch cut since you can't talk to your voice assistant answer cause or respond to text I directly from the Fitbit Versa then I wouldn't consider it a SmartWatch and given this price point that's okay some people just want a SmartWatch so they can track their workouts and even though the series for Apple Watts kind of sold the show at Apple's latest iPhone event its lowest bar of entry is $400 so if you just want something to track your workouts with then the Taurus 3 Zen versus 150 and $200 price points may be more palatable if you made it this far I guess you enjoyed the video so hit 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