Good idea, Terrible Execution, Difficult to use, Terms Of agreement, App Privacy Concerns
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Best Sellers in Unique Finds
where do i start you know modern gizmos make things that have worked well for decades far more complicated than it need be well this is prime example imagine it’s 3 am your baby wakes up screaming coughing in a cold sweat you take your baby in your arms and immediately go for the thermometer you check you babies temp and find a high fever then your off to the hospital well not with this thermometer you see last night you forgot your phone in the car and the battery died now your running around like crazy trying to find it with you baby in your arms then you find it only to find a dead battery so you charge it 10 minutes later the phone finally comes on you pull out this thermometer and it’s giving you an error code so you look for the instruction manual some where in the babies draw finally you found it you read through it as fast as possible and it says make sure bluetooth is enabled ahh finally so you turn on bluetooth and start over again finally after 15 minutes of carrying a crying baby on your hands you got the thing working do you see where i’m going with this to me this thing is dangerous 15 minutes can mean life or death in an extreme case but why should is have to go through all this even if it’s not extreme i bought two digital thermometers one smart and one stupid the stupid one works as fast as i can grab it and the smart one even in a perfect situation takes many times longer i bought this to try and keep a record of my babies fevers that was a good idea for this app but the truth is using this thing has too high a time penalty i’d be better off manually tracking temperatures than using this so when i got this thermometer i wanted to see if the company cares about its clients to see of in a jam i could easily check temps without using a device or app i could not it it does it it’s not easy i couldn’t figure it out it’s like all over major makers of gizmos these days they can’t resist jamming you into their matrix  and using your data so when you first use the app to get the thermometer working first sign up using your email what then agree to the terms of service um ok then turn on location services what why do they need to know where i am to take a temperature reading then turn on notifications geez so it’s a 5 step sellout to take a temperature you can opt out of these things but the opt out button is so small and off to the side i almost missed it but you can’t opt out of terms or your email then using the app it self is tricky it’s not like simple where there is a big button that says check temperature no you have to push like 3 or 4 small buttons and go through a menu of junk each time this thing is so lame they just could not resist your data they have to have it whatever happened to an old school glass thermometer that’s way way way better in my opinion or just a stupid digital one none of this smart junk i wish the maker of this had a conscience and would fix these issues but you can be sure they won’t that data is just too juicy for them pass if you want to make a fast time stamp of your baby temp use any normal thermometer or a non smart digital one and write down the info in a book or snap a photo of the thermometers temp with your phone and it will log time date and temp doneupdate so i found out i was wrong about 1 big thing after you submit the and agree to terms of service you can use the thermometer without using the app thank god for that i will make it 3 stars