I’m not going to use a watch to listen to music or make mobile payments in stores.Īs I wrote earlier, I eventually chose the Fitbit Versa 3 over its slightly more capable new sibling, the Sense 3, and over the Apple Watch. Plus, I have no need for non-health/fitness tracking smartwatch features. So I’ve spent much of this year investigating upgrades, with the idea that I’d prefer a tracker to a smartwatch because they’re smaller and tend to get better battery life. The Charge 3 worked well for my needs with one major exception: The display was so dim, outdoors or under bright lights such as at the gym, that it was almost unusable at those times I needed to see it the most. (As an aside, my wife uses a previous generation Versa 2 to track her runs and bike rides, both manually, in addition to walk and sleep tracking, so I have a bit of information about that as well.) My nighty sleep is likewise tracked automatically. But when I use an elliptical trainer for cardio or lift weights, I have to initiate and end tracking interactively with the device. In my case, I walk each morning, and that activity is tracked automatically. Some of this is automated: Fitbit and other wearables can automatically sense certain activities, like walking and sleeping, while other activities require the user to manually start and stop the tracking. I use a wearable for three basic and interrelated tasks: Exercise/activity tracking, heart rate tracking, and sleep tracking. Hopefully, this will be useful to at least some. All I can really do is explain how I use such a device, what my expectations and experiences are, and how it meets or doesn’t meet my needs. Unlike most of the hardware products I review, where it’s fairly easy to understand how others might use them, even when that usage varies from my own, wearables are about as personal as technology products get. Whether the Versa 3 is the right wearable for you, well, that’s a question I can’t really answer to any degree of accuracy. And unlike the more expensive and locked-in Apple Watch, it provides several days of battery life.
That this is the right fitness wearable for me is certain: The Versa 3 carries forward several years of Fitbit health and fitness data and offers a superior display and several new features when compared to my previous wearable. Two weeks ago, I finally switched from a Fitbit Charge 3 tracker to a Fitbit Versa 3 smartwatch.
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