Tested Nokia Body
Looking for app-connected smart scales on a skinny budget? You might want to weight a little longer…
The weigh to go for fitness fanatics?
Up until now, Nokia has only rebranded existing Withings scales since it gobbled up the French company – but these Body scales are completely new. They’re cheap too, sitting £30 below the Body+ and £90 below the heart-tracking Body Cardio. The Body scales have an attractive glass-fronted design. Step on them and they’ll flash up your weight, a graph of your recent entries, your BMI, and finally the day’s weather forecast. These scales only measure one thing: your weight, in kilos, pounds or old-school stones. Unlike pricier options, they can’t measure things like fat or muscle mass; but they can fling your data to the Health Mate app over Wi-fi or Bluetooth, which is useful for tracking your long-term progress. Once you’ve got the app and scales talking, the experience is sleek. But the setup process is way more fiddly than it should be – our scales initially wouldn’t connect to the app, and then they failed to recognise a new user. Early bugs have been fixed, but Health Mate is still crash-prone. These issues will no doubt be smoothed over in time; the bigger issue with the app is that, basic graphs aside, it doesn’t offer enough insight to complement the Body as well as it should.
Tech specs
Sensors Four weight sensors (5-180kg), body position sensor Units kg, lb, st Max users 8 Connectivity Wi-fi, Bluetooth Display 128x64 LCD Power 4x AAA batteries Dimensions 327x327x23mm, 2.6kg