Withings/Nokia BP-800 Blood Pressure Monitor, White/Green

So after being diagnosed with hypertension and required to check my bp 2 times a day for a while I bought this device to use because it worked with my iPhone 4s and since I have that thing with me at all times why not. It was easy to set up down load the app and plug it into the iPhone. Hit start and it self inflates, not too much and lowers taking about 20 seconds from start to finish and automatically logs my BP and heart rate in the app in a graph or list view. I've been tracking for over 3 weeks now and the batteries seem to be holding up with testing 3 times per day. You can use it on multiple people in the same app.Pros: Easy to use and put on yourself. Wake your iPhone and unlock your screen, plug in the BP devise and the app automatically opens and you hit start and wait until the stop button turns back to green. You BP and HR are automatically logged. Free app, works with iPhone 4 and 4s, you will need an adapter for the iPhone 5. Nice, attractive design, sturdy feeling. Easy to open with battery compartment with a coin and uses AAA batteries. Claim 1000 uses on batteries, I have not used it 1000 times. The Withings App is very handy to track weight, BP, heart Rate, activity and sleep with the ability to add on other Withings devices. A built in reminder reminds you to check your BP, you control when by setting the reminder. I use this to remind me to take my medication too. The app had the ability to email your Dr a chart of your readings. It's pretty close to the readings in the Dr. office +/- 4.Con: Price.. 129 bucks for a BP monitor is a bit much, but if you want the convenience it costs. Lack of out of the box iPhone 5 compatibility, requiring your to buy a 30 dollar adapter. Not wireless, although the Withings website says a wireless version is pending FDA approval and is not available. Guess Europe has figured out that a wireless device will not interfere with people who don't have electronic things in their bodies, but hey can't blame the FDA bureaucracy on Withings. The pathetic storage bag this thing comes with is insulting. Yeah it's stylish right out of the box but come on Withings, we just paid 129 dollars for a BP monitor and you couldn't throw in a nicer storage bag? It's basically a sack with an open end, and very flimsy. A nice zippered pouch with some padding would have been nice.Overall: I like this product, time will tell if it lasts but so far so good. It's easy to use, makes a nice report I can send to my Dr. and chart some overall health stats that will help get me off the BP meds. I'd recommend this product for anyone who likes convenience and automated logging. I'd wait for the wireless version if you didn't need one right now. -1 star for non wireless ability, poor storage bag, no adapter included for use with iphone 5, and price, I think the price point is about $40 too high.

Updated : Their customer support, while still email-only, is actually not bad. They quickly gave me approval for a new device after receiving the broken one in the mail. So I'm upgrade the review from 2 to 3.I also just purchased Withings' smart scale which is working really well.-------------------------------Originally review written on 12/20/2013:The device is fantastic. It works great. The measurements are accurate. The app works wonderfully. But there are two reasons why I'm giving 2 stars. Based on my experience, the reasons are:1. It has a good chance of breaking after a year2. Customer support is not good.Here are the pros and cons:PROS:- Withings has very technologically impressive products- Very good app that integrates the technologiesCONS:- Products (at least for the blood pressure monitors I've tried) have questionable short-term reliability (and are expensive to replace every year).- Customer support is behind an Email Iron Curtain.Now to dive into my two complaints:1. IT BREAKSIn the past 2 years I've purchased three of these simply because they stopped working one after the other eventually.The first two device were purchased in 2012. They both broke just after a year. In the first, the monitor apparently shorted the batteries (duracell batteries expiring 2018) which made the batteries leak and corrode the connection points of the monitor. I cleaned everything up as soon as I noticed. But it was too late. Every time I tried to use it it said that the battery was low - even when I switched in brand new ones.The second 2012 purchase (made about 6 months later) broke after about a year as well. This time the air started to seep out. It simply could not inflate properly - an apparent leak developed. Mind you these devices are not carried around or abused. They are left in my mother's bedroom where she uses it on the desk. They are taken care of very well.Finally, I bought my third one in mid-2013. So far so good, but I'm wary of making it to the two year mark. We'll see and I'll post an update later.2. CHEAP CUSTOMER SERVICE SYSTEMA company that keeps their customer service behind an iron curtain of email-only support is bad. There is no phone number support for customers. There is only there website where you send an email, wait for another email and so on. For this reason, this is also a tick against the company. They should, at the very least, add in real-time chat support. Many companies scrimp on customer support and unfortunately this is no different.

I bought this as an 'add on' to the Withings scales I use because they both upload information to your Mac and iPhone (via a free app) so you can monitor your progress. And let's face it, that's not only useful but also fun. You place it around your upper arm, plug it in directly to your phone and it automatically opens the Withings app with a large green button that says ' 'Start'. Even I could follow that one without my blood pressure going through the roof in confusion. On pressing that, it inflates and off you go. It has the facility to automatically take repeat readings up to three times every 30 0r 60 seconds - which is handy because with normal fluctuations it's helpful to get an average reading.( Though you could of course just wait a bit and press that start button again if you haven't fallen asleep because it's such a calm little device) And you can directly email the info to your doctor if you feel so moved....It's beautifully designed - clearly owes something to Apple design so as not to leave you in any doubt as to this gadget's dark allegiance...- and is probably a little over-priced because of that. An allegiance, I might add that, has been summarily betrayed- and this is VERY IMPORTANT to know - precisely because this has been designed with the iPhone and Apple in mind. It's one of those accessories that got ambushed into instant near obsolescence because the socket on the iPhone 5 that connects it to other devices as well as power is ...well....not the same as on every other iPhone. It's smaller. So currently the Withings blood pressure monitor won't work on the iPhone 5. ( Without, I suppose, the much touted adapter that Apple is now offering which is, of course, an extra cost.)As another reviewer rightly points out on here, it is a little odd that such a clever and useful piece of equipment doesn't make itself available on other operating systems. I hope it does soon. Because I think it's a great piece of 'self-empowerment' since understanding what's going on in your own body - and being in charge of it - is often as important as detached medical advice. And to that end, it has clearly won plaudits for its accuracy. And if you are a Mac person, still clinging onto your old iPhone as I am, it's really a great buy. And I think it's an important investment.

The Withings blood pressure monitor is a little more expensive than other blood pressure monitors but it comes with some unusual features. When amazon ship you the Withings Blood pressure monitor in the clearly apple inspired box is the blood pressure cuff itself, including the necessary AAA batteries to power it and a small manual going through its operation. To take a blood pressure reading you need to first download the free Withings app from the iTunes App Store onto your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. Once installed every time you connect the cuff it launches the app automatically for you. On first use or on demand the app takes you through how to take your blood pressure reading and use the device with simple step by step instructions. The cuff is designed to work with arms 9 to 17 in which means even large arms should work with no issue. Taking readings will likely be a similar experience to doing it at your doctors; the cuff inflates and slowly deflates; leaving you with the blood pressure measurement. The cuff itself shows a great deal of thought in the design there is a magnet holding the flap in place when not in use and the materials and finish all seem excellent.Before you can use the app you need to complete a registration which links the readings from your device and allows them to be stored on their website for future reference. The benefit of this is that its easy to see the trends of your blood pressure or share it with your doctor using microsoft and googles health services or outputting the chart data to a pdf document. If you really like sharing there is even the option to post it to twitter; though I have no idea why.I dinged a point as its expensive compared to other blood pressure logging devices (and massively more expensive than a simple monitor.) I also think that for a device designed to work with iPhones and iPads it really should come with a case to help you move it about safely. For me the extra expense was worth it when the data logging is taken into account.

Commentaires en 2012 :Tensiometre interessant dans la mesure ou il archive les mesures de tensions et permet ainsi de les imprimer en graphe ou en tableau a l'intention de votre medecin referant. Quoique il ne fasse pas a ma connaissance l'objet d'une certification par une autorite medicale, ses mesures correspondent, aux fluctuations pres connues de la tension arterielle, aux mesures faites avec un tensiometre classique certifie. Un point faible pourtant : malgre l'observation stricte des recommendations operatoires du constructeur, frequement certaines mesures sont invalidees par l'appareil lui meme, ce qui oblige a recommencer. Un echange du tensiometre a un peu ameliore les choses, mais certaines mesures restent invalidees malgre les precautions prises. Le bon cote c'est que l'appareil lui meme invalide les mesures douteuses au lieu de les afficher. Au final, je ne regrette pas cette acquisition, et meme je la recommande.Nouvelle évaluation Octobre 2015 : le défaut principal de cet appareil est le nombre important de mesures invalidées qui rendent son utilisation irritante. En ce qui me concerne, j'ai trouvé la solution à ce problème : au printemps dernier , alors que mon appareil invalidait environ 80 % des mesures, j'ai eu l'idée d'effectuer ces mesures non sur le bras nu, mais sur le bras recouvert de la manche d'un pull-over. Et là, plus aucune mesure invalidée et il en est ainsi depuis plus de 6 mois. En fait , aujourd'hui, j'ai recouvert le tissus vert de l'appareil par un morceau de tissu éponge et le résultat est le même : 99% de mesures valides, les seules invalidées étant celles où j'ai bougé ou parlé pendant la mesure. J'ai communiqué ces résultats à Withings pour une éventuelle modification simple et peu couteuse de leur appareil. Ils m'ont répondu en me remerciant et disant qu'ils allaient les communiquer à leurs services techniques, mais depuis plus de nouvelles. Enfin, j'ai demandé à ma femme qui est médecin, si des mesures de tension effectuées au travers d'une couche de tissu autour du bras était valable, et elle m'a répondu par l'affirmative, et envisage même de l'utiliser dans ses déplacements car les résultats sont équivalents à ceux de son appareil professionnel sensiblement plus volumineux. En conclusion je remonte la note de cet appareil de 3 à 5 étoiles si Withings l'a modifié dans le sens que je leur ai recommandé..

Doctor said that I possibly have high blood pressure but I'm pretty sure I was suffering from clinic apprehension which was causing the reading to be higher that what it was (I'm not saying it shouldn't be lower!). So to get an idea for myself I got the Withings BP monitor. I know that I could have got a cheaper non- connected model or even the Bluetooth version of the Withings but the connected one was fine for me.It works fine with my iPad3 using the connector as is and it also works with my iPhone 5S when using the lightning adapter.Using the device is pretty easy. Wrap it around your arm, open you iPad/iPhone, plug the BP monitor into your iPad/iPhone and the app opens up and then press start. The process is automatic and afterwards you get your reading.To be it looks well made and modern - not like some of the cheaper BP monitors I have had. With it being connected to your iPhone/iPad you cannot change the readings (as far as I can see) so if you need to show your doctor the results they know you haven't been cheating. Also, with them being logged you can then view them on your PC or any other device you have the app installed on.At this time I have given it five stars as does what it says and is easy to use. The only negative was that the supplied batteries were pre-installed and were DOA which meant putting some new ones in. That isn't a big deal except the four AAAs it came with were just thrown away which is a waste.

Je râlerais tout d'abord pour l'absence de convertisseur lightning pour la prise 30 broches prévue donc pour les Iphone avant l'Iphone 5Il est vrai que la fiche de présentation indique que la prise fournie est une 30 broches, mais à ce prix et compte tenue de la très probable disparition de cette prise sur toutes les futures version d'Iphone et Ipad, le convertisseur pourrait être fourni !Je trouve aussi le brassard un peu trop large : je n'ai pas de bras particulièrement petits mais là, le brassard prend quasiment tout le haut de mon bras et pas facile de le mettre à 2 cm de la saignée du coude !Sinon, cela fonctionne très bien avec une pression peut-être un peu forte mais surement nécessaire pour faire de bonnes mesures. Je n'ai eu aucun problème de synchronisation des données et les mesures apparaissent parfaitement dans l'application Iphone !