

Oddly enough, Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant is built-in on a watch sold by Google (they purchased Fitbit a few years ago). Personally I don’t wear a smartwatch to replace my phone, I wear it to supplement it and I imagine most people do the same. Nonetheless, I don’t find myself missing it often. This has been a limitation since the first Versa and I’m surprised it hasn’t been added. One thing you CAN’T do is start a text message from the watch. You can also reply to text messages using pre-canned responses or voice to text. You can answer phone calls on the Versa 4 with the built-in microphone and speaker. You setup which notifications are sent from your phone to your watch. With the fitness features a priority, that’s not to say the Versa 4 doesn’t shine as a smartwatch too. These features are front and center as you’d expect on a Fitbit device. It’s all designed to track your heart, your workouts and your sleep. There is a lot of stuff packed into this small watch. The Versa 4 includes a ton of sensors including a heart rate sensor, skin temperature sensor, an blood oxygen level sensor, an altimeter, an accelerometer and GPS chip. Fitbit, afterall, has been doing health tracking for 15 years. The expectation for any smartwatch is that it offers a wide array of fitness, sleep and health-tracking options and the Fitbit is no exception to that. The physical design of the Versa is very unassuming… as it should be. Compared to previous Versa models the watch and screen are more rounded, the physical button has returned after being replaced by a touch button in the Versa 3. It’s exactly what you would expect a smartwatch to look like. The Fitbit Versa 4 has a strap, a color touchscreen watch face and a bevy of sensors on the back to press up against your skin.
