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)

Got this for my mom for her birthday! She loved it and still does to this day.

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.

Bought MAY 2020 so have had a year of experience with the watch. Have to trust that it is accurate.Positives1- Looks good on my wrist. The square design is better than my Round Motorola IMHO. And it quickly shows the correct time whether you use the always on feature or the flick of the wrist feature (my choice).2- Comfortable enough to wear 24/7 (except when charging)3- Multiple faces to choose from and are easy to read indoors and outdoors.4- Most important is the Sleep Analysis feature. From amount of REM, Deep, and Light Sleep to Resting Heart Rate and Oxygen Level Variation, the watch is worth it for that feature alone.5- Lots and Lots of features like Music, Spotify, Relax, Pandora, Wallet that I usually just use my phone for since I have it with me the same amount of time as the watch.6- Nice to have the watch buzz and display who is calling when you have a call during a meeting so you can quickly see if it's important7- Continual Heart Rate Monitoring - An important feature if you even have a remote heart problem.8- Physical fitness stats to give you a quick view of how many steps you've taken, stairs you've climbed, etc., and a reminder if you've been sitting too long.9- Phone App gives you a vast amount of data on health and exercise.10- Better way to charge the watch than my previous Blaze Fitbit.11- Access can be protected with a four digit code.12- A "Find my phone" app. How many time do you lay the phone down at home and forget where it is?Negatives-1- Although Fitbit adds features to the Watch and App (Health Metrics, for example), they collect a lot more data and will only show it to you if you pay a monthly fee for Premium. That should be included when you buy the watch. It's your body's data!!2- Alexa can't be set to your at-home name. Nice to have an Alexa connection, but not all that useful.3- Not a problem for me, but for those who like to change watch straps, it doesn't look easy. Haven't tried it since I had a Blaze.4- Too many apps that are really better on my Android phone.This has been a great watch to have during a pandemic to keep an eye on things like Oxygen Levels and other health measurements. But in other matters, it is an accessory to your phone, not a replacement for it.Personally, I've grown to rely on my Versa 2 to make sure I'm getting enough sleep and exercise and to monitor critical values like heart rate and Oxygen levels. If that's what you want, this is the watch for you at a "decent" price. If not, check out the Versa 3. It might be worth spending the extra money but I'll stick with this one until it falls off of my wrist.Stay well and safe!

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.