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Andre L

Accurate

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2024

Easy to use and works great.

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Shaun Barba

Tech support takes days to respond and the latest update bricked my device

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2024

I've used and advocated for Withings (previously Nokia) for years. I loved how easy it was to sync regular tests (i.e. temperature, body scale, etc). However, since they've updated to the new withings app, almost none of my measurements across any of my withings devices have synced. I've been working with support for two months without any progress. Most of the responses were basically starting over with steps that I had already done. I complied as best I could and responded with detailed results. They even asked me to purchase a new thermometer since one of them was out of warranty. So I did, and it won't even connect with the withings app at all. As it was setting up the device, an update ran that bricked the thermometer. This was a fantastic brand at one point. One of my favorites. Now, however, I'm afraid that between spotty tech support and the application issues (not pairing with devices, measurements not recording through the app, and an update that bricked one of my devices), I have to step away from them.

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Andre L

Accurate

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2024

Style: New versionVerified Purchase

Easy to use and works great.

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Ohioan

Accurate. Easy to use.

Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2020

Style: New versionVerified Purchase

Okay I read the reviews, good and bad, before purchasing this thermometer. I like it, but it may not be for everyone. I was getting accurate consistent results.

Set up took me about 2 minutes. After that it's easy to use. It does ask you to set up a profile for each person. I read a user review complain about how this doesn't work if you're trying to quickly scan guests as they would each need a profile. My suggestion: 1 profile lableled "Guest" for everyone outside the home and you'll have a list right there in order of temps taken. If that's how you plan on using it.

Another complaint I've seen is that it works great for a while then has connectivity issues. The Bluetooth signal will always falter before the lights go out. Change the batteries.

I like smart health tech. The app for this isn't going to replace my samsung health app but it all links together which is nice. I'll update this review in the future if I start experiencing issues.

Edit: After about 8 months of regular use the original batteries are still working fine. Never once had a connectivity issue. Still consistently accurate. Never had a single issue and I'm glad I made the purchase.

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Yamazakura

Seems Like an Essential

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2023

Style: New versionVerified Purchase

I bought this to assist in caregiving for a person with dementia and found it not only useful for that purpose but generally at home. Quick and easy to use and have found it quite reliable.

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tmoore

It doesn’t work w/o having the app set up

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2024

Style: New versionVerified Purchase

It doesn’t work w/o setting up the app which is kind of a hassle. But it does seem to have an accurate and consistent temperature reading.

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farfel5678

More accurate than an oral thermometer, takes almost no time

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2023

Style: New versionVerified Purchase

I started taking daily readings with a digital oral thermometer back during Covid. What a pain! Beep, beep, beep, hold still, oh wait start over, beep, beep, beep, beeeepppp! OK. Then manually enter the number in health app.

I had no idea how much IR health thermometers had advanced. I have an IR gun for general measurements, e.g. temperature of building materials, etc. and I know there's not very accurate. For cooking, I use accurate thermometers including a ribbon probe for pan temperature, so I'm a bit of a thermometer geek. So, I scoff when I see somebody using an IR thermometer to measure a pan!

Well, that drugstore digital oral thermometer was 1.5-2F low. I used to always make jokes with doctors when they take my temperature, saying "I'm a dinosaur", but then they would read 98.6 instead of 96.something, and I'd be like, "must have been the run from the car".

This thermometer is accurate, and corresponds to doctors readings. My health app tells me I've had a sudden change in temperature trend lol.

To use, it's a 2-second swipe across your forehead. That's it. You do swipe back and forth, rather than just aim. (Makes me a bit skeptical about the ones doctors and other were using to screen for admittance during Covid...) It's very clear when the thermometer has "gotten it", and it's immediately reflected in health app. Apparently this swiping past an important artery is a key part of the thermometer's accuracy.

One thing that's not completely clear is the need to scroll down on thermometer display and select a person and tap the button - even if only one person configured.

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Ashley

DEFINITELY WORTH THE MONEY

Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2018

Style: New versionVerified Purchase

We have went through hundreds of dollars in thermometers in my house. I have a central line and I have multiple kids who have different diseases that require constant temperature motnioring, their temperature determines the treatment they need.

We have done ear ones, forehead, temporal, underarm, rectal, you name it, we tried it. Accuracy has been a huge problem for us. I can have a child who is red and sweating and different thermometers would read 96.0 and others 103.7. I could use the same thermometer and get different temps swiping left to right, than right to left.

This one is consistent over 90% of the time. The disclaimer is (as written on their instructions) not always accurate when forehead is sweaty or when the thermoter doesn't have even contact when swiping (also going to fast or two slow can give wonky readings).

I love that I can track temperatures to each child. Easy to do, and it's so quick I rarely don't get it done as I am swiping kids. So I can review readings without having to sort out readings.

The app is easy to use and really convenient for doctor appointments. I do wish I could track it when I'm not around. For example if someone else was using it and I was at the store, it would be nice for real time updates. We like it so much, my mom bought one for her house. So she just sends me screenshots of hers when I'm not home. I'm not aware if we can combine the info into one cohesive report (that would be super cool).

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Shaun Barba

Tech support takes days to respond and the latest update bricked my device

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2024

Style: New versionVerified Purchase

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DAVID BRYSON

IT'S HARD TO GO WRONG

Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2016

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This is a review composed by a technological amateur hopefully for the benefit of fellow amateurs. Amateurs and specialists are all one when it comes to needing thermometers. That could also be said about needing brain surgery I suppose, but when it comes to thermometers the threshold of required competence in operation is not quite so high.

Digital domestic appliances call for similar modest skill-levels. I have another ‘family’ thermometer of a comparably advanced type, the Braun No Touch Plus Forehead Digital, and it has been mine for about a year. I also own two comparable sets of digital bathroom scales, and once you have got used to setting up and using any one of these units you will have lost any nervousness or hesitancy in tackling the others. It’s a bit of a fiddle to start with, but fairly plain sailing after that. This new entrant to my family device-collection needs to have an app downloaded on your smartphone or tablet, and that is new, but we had all better get used to that.

Genuinely ‘technical’ reviews are for genuinely technical people and can no doubt be found located in genuinely technical publications. What I can best do here is advise any interested readers to go to some boffin→consumer publication and check out the functionality you want. You will find, at the most superficial level, that this kind of thermometer does not require physical contact with the patient. That is certainly a big plus when taking the temperature of a fretful infant who would otherwise have needed the thermometer inserted up his or her backside. However when I consulted Gizmodo for an assessment that would overawe me with its advanced perceptions I found that the first ‘plus’ for this thermometer was that it didn’t need that sort of thing! The user public can’t be as far ahead of me as I thought.

You pay a premium, of course, for no-touch technology. You can get very good digital thermometers that still need contact with the skin (or mouth or anus) at a fraction of the price and a fraction of the setup palaver. We have the excellent Vicks AgeSmart, so what all this comes down to is that within different technology levels and functionality levels you are not likely to go wrong if you take a little time to check the market out. It is not a huge market, and of course the market surveys keep pouring out. Choose a publication you like the look of, and unless you are independently knowledgeable you will simply be taking a punt.

So my review has consisted of sending any readers it finds to other more specialist reviews. Not only am I not ashamed of that, I regard it as my plain duty. It would be an outrage for me to try to give a firm recommendation among products of such advanced design. Further up the food-chain I hope the professional reviewers are keeping in mind that it’s non-professionals whom they are advising to spend their money. Good luck, all of you. Suppose, theoretically, you picked the optimum product out of this difficult market, how long would it stay optimum? My family and I got ours off the UK Vine. It’s excellent. So are the two other products named in this review, so are many named elsewhere. You’re going to have to take a flyer if you ever seriously want to buy.

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KamotsRapha

Good and reliable

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2024

Style: New versionVerified Purchase

The only thing I don’t like is that there is no Guest mode like with the BP Cuff and it’s a little slow compared to other thermometers of this nature. Otherwise it works well.

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bcgooding

Great for the whole family

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2024

Style: New versionVerified Purchase

This thermometer is an investment, yes, but it works for the whole family. We were recently all sick, and I very much appreciated being able to track our temperatures in the coordinating app to relay the information to our doctor. Four stars only because this is our second thermo from withings as the first one broke after several years.

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