Fitbit Versa 2 Review: Top Selling Fitness Tracker in 2020, but a good Watch?
From a name like 'Fitbit', one would expect its products to not sway far from fitness. Over the last few years, Fitbit has built itself as a household name successfully to the point that teens these days refer to any odd fitness tracker on the wrist a 'Fitbit'. What supports that reputation is the Fitbit Versa 2 listed as the top seller in Amazon's fitness tracking category.
However, in line with this review series, my question is not whether the Fitbit Versa 2 is a great fitness tracker, but instead, is it a decent watch for business travelers?
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Fitness tracker + Business suit = Fashion Disaster...or is it?
There was a time when fitness trackers look like thick silicon wristbands, which doesn't look completely disastrous, but definitely cramps the sleek professional look with some hipster vibe. The Versa 2 distances itself from that with a rounded square aluminum case construction, glass face with curved edges, and a square AMOLED display.
What impressed me more was actually the construction of the back of the watch, which is a domed profile, centered with a large piece of glass that contains the heartbeat sensor.
Various smartwatches/trackers that I have used have different ways of dealing with sweat, which to me is very important because often when I travel for work, I end up in humid cities where I need to know the sweat will not damage the watch or create unpleasant smells - which I'd like to think is very much part of a person's fashion.
Amazfit manages sweat using a plastic back, and Suunto does the same - which keeps everything light and durable. But the Versa 2 does it more tastefully with the domed glass where mostly only the glass part touches my skin. This actually makes it more pleasurable to wear - probably not practically, but having glass touching my skin felt better than plastic, even better than stainless steel. The back of the Versa 2 is definitely one of my favorite parts of the fitness tracker design.
Conclusively in the style department, the Versa 2 has my vote for being adequate as a timepiece that goes with the suit. It's minimalistic, sleek, plus it has the construction quality of a nice watch.
Surprisingly responsive to my wrist
One of the things that I could not stand with past fitness trackers is that delay between turning your wrist and the time showing up. The whole point of wearing a watch to me is so that I can see the time quicker, instead of having to pull out my phone. There is nothing more cringy than seeing a gentlemen in a nice suit flicking his wrist repeatedly to try to get the time to show up on his watch.
Recent smartwatches has improved this, but the Fitbit Versa 2 is one of the smoothest, most responsive smartwatch that I've used so far. Not only does the screen flick on when I turned my wrist to check, but it even flicks off when I turned my wrist back to its original position.
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