Withings Announces New 'Body Cardio' Scale Able to Assess Cardiac Health

[name99]

It seems like a gimmick, why can't you just take your weight from any scale and just plug it into there app.

(a) What are you calling a gimmick? The value-add of this device is the vascular health measurement, which is precisely the measurement other scales will not give you.

(b) Having a device that AUTOMATICALLY transfers data into Health.app is one more piece of reducing friction and thus making it easier to live your life and reach goals based on real data as opposed to wishful thinking. Like food logging... If you simply eyeball data, you tend to remember what you want to remember...

(c) Transferring the data into Health.app is, IMHO, essential --- enough so that I, for one, would not buy this device if it were not offered.
The reason it matters so much is that the weight tracking in most apps (including the Withings app) is, to put it bluntly, garbage. The daily noise in the measurements vastly overwhelms the actual trend, so you can see nothing useful in simple data display. You need a high-power statistical app (like Happy Scale) to extract the signal from the noise and display the real trend line.
But if an app is not feeding into the Health.app ecosystem, then there is no practical way to apply these high powered statistical apps to the problem (unless you're going to enter all the data by hand every day, but get realistic...)

[Edited above slightly to reflect the fact that consensus appears to be that the device does integrate correctly with Healthkit.]

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If it is anything like the random number generator of my current scale I am not interested.

I have no idea if your complaint is just general whining, or if you are actually trying to ask a serious question.
On the assumption that you are actually serious:
(a) Greater Goods sells a smart scale that is accurate to .2lb and works very well IMHO. I have their $60 model (which also measure body fat and water weight), there are cheaper models that are still smart scales that only measure weight.

(b) If your complaint is that your weight varies so much you can't see a trend in the noise (you might get as much as a 3lb variation from one day to the next) you need an app that will de-noise the data stream. As I mentioned above, Happy Scale does this well.

(c) OBVIOUSLY if you get on the scale at random times of the day, wearing random clothes, and having drunl random amounts of water, nothing on earth is going to give you sensible insight. If you are serious about this, using damn common sense. Weigh yourself second thing in the morning, after you have pee'd, wearing no clothes; same pattern every day.

 

[PN4]

What's taking so long with the "thermo". I've been waiting since it was announced in January.

 

[rivertrip]

snake oil - no regulatory approval for what it claims to measure

 

[midloman]

Obvious the evidence is anecdotal but that's exactly the problem, they fail and Withings customer support is awful.
Check Amazon reviews (with a pinch of salt obviously).

Anyway I might pull the trigger on this new one and pray they improved their customer support

I bought a Withings scale about 4-5 months ago and had some problems with the wifi connection. I found their customer support VERY responsive. They made some suggestions; none of them seemed to work though. They were able to see when the scale connected and when it didn't (it would connect randomly, more often not connecting when I stood on it). They even sent out 2 replacement scales and I had the same issue. I've decided that the problem is with my Internet setup in my house (multiple routers going through a FIOS router; I think it's having some issues getting through all the connection points or something). I'm using it bluetooth mode now.

Will probably get this one. I'm going to simplify my whole setup and just go with Verizon's Quantum Gateway router and get rid of all of the other connections. If it still doesn't work, I'll return it. I've got some health issues that the new feature may help me keep tabs on, if it works like they say it does.

 

[creepyTowel]

Amazingly, the UK Apple Store price (before tax) is about $165, which is $15 less than the US price. Presumably Withings are pitching the price at what they think the UK market will bear.