Fitbit's new $200 watch does the basics, but feels way behind the Apple Watch

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Fitbit's new $200 watch does the basics, but feels way behind the Apple Watch
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Fitbit's Versa 2 looks nice, has days of battery life and is good for tracking your steps and workouts, but why doesn't it have GPS, CNBC's Todd Haselton says.

by $95 million to $1.45 billion after sales of the $160 Versa Lite came in lower than expected. For the full fiscal year, it now expects a loss of 31 cents to 38 cents a share, significantly worse than the 15 cents per share previously expected.

However, the Versa 2 can sync with an Android phone so that you can respond to text messages via voice from your watch, as long as your phone is nearby and connected to Bluetooth . I was impressed at how well it picked up and understood what I was saying. It barely ever got anything wrong. For one, the watch faces are boring. While there's an "app store," most of it is filled with really basic stuff like calculators, map apps that feel half-baked, lots of homemade watch faces and mini games. There are some decent apps, like Starbucks, which lets you pay in store, but the vast majority doesn't feel even close to as finished as what you find on an Apple Watch. The United Airlines app, for example, still doesn't see the flight I have coming up next week.

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