With the release of the Versa 4 and the Sense 2, Fitbit also introduced a brand new interface, aligning these wearables with what we've seen with Wear OS 3.5 on the Pixel Watch. (Image credit: Andrew Myrick / Android Central) To be fair, I haven't enabled the Always-on Display, and my workouts have been minimal (#SedentaryLifestyleFTW.) But as I started using the Versa 4 following my Google Pixel Watch review, it's pleasant having a wearable that can last for more than a day, a day and a half, before it needs to get some juice.

Fitbit claims this will last for at least six days on a single charge, and I'm happy to say that it's still trucking more than a week later.

In my time with the Fitbit Versa 4, there is one thing that I've come to absolutely love about this new wearable - battery life. Or, you can just rely on the various tiles for things like viewing the current weather, daily activity, how much you slept, and more. And while I still yearn for Wear OS-like customizable watch faces, you'll probably be able to find something to show off all of the different metrics that you want. The AMOLED display is also big enough, measuring at 1.58-inches, to easily display most of the notifications that come through. NFC (Fitbit Pay/Google Wallet), Bluetooth, Wi-Fi (turned off)īlack / Graphite, Waterfall Blue / Platinum, Pink Sand / Copper Rose, Beet Juice / Copper Rose The manual for both the Sense 2 and Versa 4 do not mention anything about play/pause music controls or connecting Bluetooth headphones to your watch. Hopefully, this is something that’s added in a future update.GPS + GLONASS, optical HRM, altimeter, accelerometer, ambient light, gyroscope Meanwhile, it was telling that the Charge 5 did not offer specialized Spotify controls after previous generations and the original Sense did.īesides the lack of on-device storage, it’s not clear that you can even control audio playing on your phone. View all commentsĪdditionally, another help article says Deezer “isn’t available on Fitbit Sense 2, Fitbit Versa Lite Edition, or Fitbit Versa 4.” The support page for Pandora just says “This feature isn’t available on Fitbit Versa Lite Edition or Fitbit Versa 4,” and presumably the Sense 2 not being mentioned is a mistake. You'd think pushing Fitbit Premium and Google Assistant would be more important to Google big picture. And given the Pixel Watch appears unimpressive in terms of the battery life and processor (and likely expensive), it may drive some of us out of the Fitbit ecosystem. The wifi deactivation is telling, I guess they are watering down the Fitbit watches to differentiate the Pixel Watch.

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