Withings Body Smart Review: A Connected Scale For the Masses that includes baby/pet weight

GadgeteerZA@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org – 11 points – Withings Body Smart Review: A Connected Scale For the Masses
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I like devices that are not locked into an OS ecosystem (Apple, I'm looking at you!) and although I already have a Fitbit Aria scale, it gets thrown out when my wife stands on the scale with a pet, to get the pet's weight (you weigh yourself, hold the pet, and then work out the difference). Having a built-in pet/baby mode is actually really useful.

But Withings also has some other interesting features like Eyes-Closed mode, Athlete mode, Pregnancy mode, etc apart from all the usual smart scale measurement features. And of course it will sync to Apple and Google/Samsung Health, and Strava or MyFitnessPal.

Thankfully the Withings+ subscription is not needed for any of the above functionality, so I may seriously consider buying this scale.

See the review at https://www.howtogeek.com/894214/withings-body-smart-review/

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I'm not a fan of buying hardware that relies on some third party service that could either shut down, or decide to charge for usage at any time. The hardware looks nice though.

Yes true. My existing Aria scale does at least show weight without any app or connectivity. But it is not showing the more advanced features without the connectivity.

I have the Withings and it works well as a digital scale. However, I think it's body composition measurements/calculations are bogus. It thinks I have a 3.8% bone mass, which would be 6.7 lbs. That's right it thinks I'm some kind of bird cryptid.

The Wii balance board had this feature too. Of course, one time my friends’ asked him to put down the baby or pet he was holding when he went to use it after a big dinner.