FitBit FITBIT VERSA 2 ROSE Fitbit Versa 2 Health and Fitn (Open Box)

Very reluctantly, I had to admit that my 2nd Pebble Round was no longer worth nursing along. The battery was done, and support for the product long since ended. Versa 2, with its fairly low price point, 3+ day battery life, heart rate tracking, and ability to verbally respond to texts - plus use most Alexa features - seemed like a decent replacement. (Pebble's ability to respond to texts was one of its major selling points, until the feature died with the product support!) Unfortunately, after wearing it for about 10 weeks, I remain underwhelmed. Let's start with the good, though * Battery life really is in the 3 day range * Bright, legible display. I found a decent free watch face that displays on an angle, so your arm can stay at a more natural one. * Comfortable strap, nice look overall. * I don't really have a baseline for sleep or heart rate tracking, but it seems to work fine. But now, the not so good. * Connectivity to my Moto Z Play is spotty at best. Unlike the Pebble with its bluetooth icon right on the watch face, the watch itself gives you few indications about whether it's communicating with your phone. Your first clue is usually when you hear your phone binging, but realize you got no corresponding buzz on your wrist. Long story short, my experience is that once connectivity is lost, rebooting the phone is my only option. No amount of begging for a re-sync through the app, or even force-quitting the app is going to cut it. I doubt I've ever gone 24 hours without losing connectivity either - frankly, I think simply stepping out of Bluetooth range is enough to kill it most of the time. I know this works better on other phones, but as I am not looking to replace my beloved Moto Z, this is cold comfort. * When everything is connecting nicely, the voice-to-text feature works pretty well. Except that sometimes it gives every indication of having sent your text, but it never actually makes it out of the ether. I won't venture to guess how frequently it fails, because frankly I don't get to use the feature (for the reason above) enough to have a good idea. * The app itself is not particularly intuitive. I know I've bought into the Fitbit ecosystem here, and that the same app does for many devices. But I wish it were a bit more device-centric and spent less time trying to upsell me on premium features. At first, the app was crashing constantly, and noisily, several times a day. An update sometime in late January or early February (to the firmware?) seems to have addressed that. Now it just doesn't really like to sync. :) * I seriously question the step-count. I have GoogleFit installed on my phone. My Pebble's step count and the phone's step count were always within single-digit percents of each other, unless of course I'd put the phone down for long periods of exercise. The Versa 2 on the other hand consistently reports a step count 20% higher than my phone. Without a lot more research and motivation I obviously can't prove which device is more accurate, but let's just say the Versa is the "minority report." The minor attention I've paid to the issue suggests that the Versa picks up and counts a lot more random non-walking movement than the Pebble, as the phone and watch seem to stay in closer agreement when I am actually on a long walk. (Oh, and while we're at it, wouldn't it be nice if the Versa could sync with Google Fit?!) To sum up, I would Happily add a fourth star if this silly watch just stayed connected with the phone without all the drama of silent failures and annoying reboots. But as it stands, I have found myself less and less motivated to do those reboots and just lived with a largely crippled watch, without consistent and reliable access to many of the features that I was most looking forward to, and - I might add - just Worked on the Pebble.