Apparently Nokia has a newer nicer version of this, but I can't conceive of why.
This is incredibly easy to use and provides really accurate readings that integrate will with the other Nokia devices we use (watch and scale). My wife and I both use this blood pressure monitor with no hassles in our apps. BTW the Nokia app is much better than it used to be, so watch the dates on the critical reviews. When they took over for Withings there definitely were some growing pains but they have their act together, particularly the weight integration with MFP.
The band comes with four AAA Duracell batteries. Apparently it doesn't recharge. It has a microUSB port, but I do not know of its purpose and haven't touched it. Setup was easy like most of these things are these days. I opened the app, hit the + Device button, turned the BPM's power button on, and hit "Next" a few times.
Then I put the cuff on and it checked my blood pressure three times before telling me my results. That's the proper way to do it. A lot of machines only do it once to save time, but that's not because the machines are super awesome. Human blood pressure moves around and needs to be averaged. Obviously the app remembers your results so you can check them. You can also add notes and cross compare to activity, sleep, heart rate, diet, if you've got more Nokia stuff. If not, you can still do it if you think. And I think this is the most important aspect.
Checking it every day has really opened my eyes to some stuff I didn't realize. How much sleep I get. How much I exercise. What I eat. These things have some real impact on my blood pressure and probably my general state of health day to day. Sure, you knew this, but did you see it in real time, day to day? Say someone really pissed me off for some reason. If I fixate on that my health suffers. I never actually saw this, and now I know just how important it is to laugh it off. Also, my freaking multivitamin. It makes a difference in my blood pressure 12 hours later! Really!
Anyway, for a 'smart' BPM, this is the least expensive one, it works great, and it feels like a well made product. You can't recharge it but so what? The ones that aren't smart are not in the same category because you're not really going to write down results every day. You know I'm right.
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Update: It's working fine after a week but I've noticed that I can only get this to work with one phone. My wife and I both use a lot of Nokia products for health tracking and this BPM is like the smart watches, not the wifi scales. It's still usable, but now I really have to wait for my wife to get home so she can initiate my blood pressure test. We both use Note 8 phones and I don't think it's the phone's fault. Not a big deal, but worth mentioning.
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This Item  Withings BPM – Wireless Blood Pressure Monitor: Medically Accurate, Fsa-Eligible, Easy to Use, Syncs with Free App for Apple & Android, New |  |  |  | |
| Price | Currently unavailable. | $20.99 | $64.99 | -42% $63.99 List: $109.99 |
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| Sold By | — | Greater Goods™ | Greater Goods™ | iHealthLabs |
| band size | 9-17 inches | 22 - 42 cm | — | 22-42 cm |
| power source | Battery Powered | Battery Powered | Corded Electric, Battery Powered | Battery Powered |
| weight | 0.88 pounds | 14.89 ounces | 1.45 pounds | 0.24 kilograms |
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I want to like it, but it's useless
I bought this having been a frequent user of the Withings scale. This, unfortunately, is just not useful. The readings fail about 3x more often than it gets right. This causes the battery to drain, which causes it to fail even more often. The app claims that I need to be "in ideal conditions" but I couldn't be more ideal (cuff over bicep, bicep even with my heart, sitting straight up, etc.). This just isn't ready for prime time, unfortunately.
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