Fitbit - Versa 2 Special Edition - Iron Mist with Charcoal Woven Jacquard Band

Fitbit brings their best most powerful smartwatch to the market at a great price of $199. The processor is faster than the versa or ionic and the screen is way brighter as fitbit has upgraded to a bigger screen. The raise to wake is faster and moving between apps is smoother. Alexa is a great add on that works well and fitbit says in the future Alexa will be able to start workouts. A couple of side notes... Spotify only works with a paid premium Spotify account and the band changing still is really hard. I just gave up on putting the classic band on. All and all this is a GREAT smartwatch! Everything works well and it looks really really nice for $199

The Versa 2 is a great wearable. For $200 you are getting a pretty capable smart watch, very well built, and you enter into the fitbit community. You can compete against your friends in different fitness goals (which is a lot more fun than it may sound) while having a smart watch with voice control, notifications, and a growing app library. Its a well thought out device.

Love this watch. I also have the Versa and the Versa 2 adds a couple of features I thought were missing in the original. Alexa is useful. If you aren't using Amazon Alexa, not sure why you're buying this watch in the first place. The voice responses are a huge part of the upgrade. A feature not originally pointed out in the reviews and lists (even on Fitbit's website) allows a voice-to-text response to text messages. It works on Facebook messages, as well. Super useful. You're not locked into the canned, preset responses. This is a feature only on the Android side. Sorry Apple users. This isn't a shortcoming on Fitbit's side. This is control issue with Apple. They deny access to their infrastructure to most products. The battery life is respectable. Even with a fair amount of vibrating for messages and alerts, playing with the settings almost constantly (like a 4 year-old), and using the always-on option on the display, you should get 4-5 days on a charge. Another big plus for me. I have little desire to charge every day like an Apple or Samsung watch. This is a little better on battery than the Versa, which wasn't too bad at all. The fitness tracker - as always - is great. It's a Fitbit device, after all. Still assessing the sleep tracking but so far, it seems accurate and is tossing out some helpful info. This was an added bonus for me - the vibration. I use my smartwatch as my daily alarm clock. I can sleep through a freight train rolling past me but a buzzing on my wrist works every time. I started with a Pebble smartwatch years ago and got spoiled on the strong vibration it had. Never failed to wake me up in the morning and I never missed a vibration on a message or other alert. Since Pebble went out of business (and was bought by Fitbit later), I've not been able to find a watch that had a strong vibration. The original Versa was close. The Versa 2 has an adjustable vibration - weak or strong. This is as strong of a vibration as the original Pebbles had. So glad I upgraded from the Versa. Great watch. I highly recommend it.

The watch itself is even more beautiful than the original Versa, I love the always on display and the Alexa integration has worked flawlessly thus far. I have signed up for Fitbit Premium as well and thus far I am really loving it!

The bezel it still huge, but the new AMOLED screen is very nice. Pandora is awful on it. I uploaded 3 playlist which took about an hour. When I played them on a walk they skipped and dropped out constantly. So aggravating. I tried to switch playlist; but you can’t if you’ve started tracking an exercise. You can’t get to ANY other screen while tracking which is so dumb. You have to end the activity you’re tracking to use any other feature (except summon Alexa or Fitbit Pay). The lack of gps wasn’t super important but I can’t believe in this day and age it’s not a standard feature on a fitness tracker. The connected GPS tracked my walk okay but not super accurate. As for Alexa. Hate Amazon. Don’t care. Didn’t use. Fitbit Pay. Don’t care. Would never use. I wish they would build a premium, solid, fitness tracker. They need to take note from Apple and build a beautiful quality device that’s only fitness focused. Screw all the other apps that don’t pertain to fitness. Focus on fitness and you premium app! Focus on quality! Fitbit has never made a nice looking tracker with a quality build. The Versa 2 is more of the same. Mediocre at best.