{"id":26208,"date":"2019-10-24T11:57:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T09:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.radioislam.org.za\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/24\/fitbit-versa-2-now-available-in-sa\/"},"modified":"2019-10-24T11:57:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T09:57:13","slug":"fitbit-versa-2-now-available-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/fitbit-versa-2-now-available-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitbit Versa 2 Now Available in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News &#8211; 24-10-2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaizelPatel143\" rel=\"alternate\">Twitter: @FaizelPatel143<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fitbit has announced that the Versa 2 the next generation of its best-selling smartwatch will be available at major retail stores at the end-October \/ beginning November.<\/p>\n<p>The latest edition to the smartwatch delivers a new precision-crafted swim proof design, includes innovative sleep features like Sleep Score and smart wake, and is packed with even advanced health, fitness and smart features to elevate every moment.<\/p>\n<p>Versa 2 debuts an on-device microphone, which enables voice to text (Android phones only), along with a Spotify app that allows users to control their music and podcasts, and Fitbit Pay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coupled with even faster performance, thousands of apps and clock faces and a brighter, crisper display with an optional always-on mode Versa 2 now has 5+ days battery life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of the features on the Versa 2 includes Sleep Score, which allows users to receive a nightly score within the Fitbit app for better insight into their sleep quality. The score is based on heart rate (sleeping and resting), restlessness, time awake and Sleep Stages.<\/p>\n<p>Versa 2 comes with even more features, like Fitbit Pay, so users can make easy and secure wallet -free payments at retailers with contactless payment functionalities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fitbit is also bringing the Spotify app experience to Versa 2, allowing Spotify Premium subscribers to control music and podcasts so you can find all-day motivation directly from your wrist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Versa 2 is also powered by a faster processor compared to Versa for better performance including a larger AMOLED display and an optional always-on display mode, which boasts a 2+ day\u2019s battery life so you can easily check the time and see your stats during a workout without lifting your wrist or pressing a button.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are also a wide variety of new accessories and bands for the Versa 2, featuring new colours, materials, and styles, <br \/>Versa 2 will retail for R3, 999 while the Versa 2 Special Edition will be available for R4, 999.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fitbit also announced Fitbit Premium, a paid subscription service in the Fitbit app. A free trial of Fitbit Premium will be available on the Versa 2 Special Edition. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Fitbit announced Fitbit Aria Air, an affordable Bluetooth smart scale. This will be available locally in November for R1, 099 at select retailers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News &#8211; 24-10-2019 (Twitter: @FaizelPatel143) \u00a0 Fitbit has announced that the Versa 2 the next generation of its best-selling smartwatch will be available at major retail stores at the end-October \/ beginning November. The latest edition to the smartwatch delivers a new precision-crafted swim proof design, includes innovative sleep features [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-6OI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 00:50:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}