The Versa is the Fitbit smartwatch you’ll actually go out and buy

Fitbit’s Ionic smartwatch was like an experimental debut album, with its blend of promising ideas and rough edges. But now Fitbit has returned to the studio and made a festival-friendly mass seller called the Versa (£199). With a crowd-pleasing design, 50m waterproofing, built-in music storage and that tempting price tag, it’s got a set list to woo both hardcore Fitbit fans and smartwatch dabblers. Both will pleased to find that FitbitOS has been refined too, with a new dashboard to show your vital health stats. In fact, the only thing missing is built-in GPS, with the Versa limited to piggybacking your phone connection. Maybe we’ll eventually get everything we want with a Fitbit Encore.

Mark Wilson Features editor

About

Mark's first review for Stuff was the Nokia N-Gage in 2004. Luckily, his career lasted a little longer than the taco phone, and he's been trying to figure out how gadgets fit back into their boxes ever since. While his 'Extreme Mark Wilson' persona was retired following a Microsoft skydiving incident, this means he can often be spotted in the wilds of South West London testing action cams, drones and smartwatches, and occasionally cursing at them.

Areas of expertise

Smart home tech, cameras, wearables and obscure gadgets from the early 2000s.