Customer Reviews

MOBI Digital Ultra Thermometer

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(26)

 

 

I love that you can use this product on the forehead or in the ear. It's true that it gives varying readings, but any thermometer will do that depending on where it's placed on the forehead or angled in the ear canal. I always take 3 readings and go from there.

You are not supposed to take readings in the ear on infants less than 6 months old (their ear canals are not angled right), so the forehead/temporal setting is way cool.

I work in a pediatrician's office and use a popular competing ear-only thermometer, I've found it gives varying readings as well. It just depends on placement.

My 21 month old was wary of this at first, but after a few times of using it, he loves it. He WANTS me to take his temperature whenever he sees it.

I also like the other features: backlit display, talking readout, 30 reading memory with date/time, flashlight, room temperature reading, and that it needs no probe covers.

I received one of these digital ultra thermometers as a gift when my daughter was released from the NICU. I was happy to have a high-quality, easy to use thermometer for when she got sick again. Imagine my surprise when now, 4 months later, she gets her first illness and I find this thermometer to be completely useless! I check her temperature 3-5 times in a row, alternating between temple, forehead, and ear and get readings between 94 and 100 degrees! This tells me nothing! I don't know if this is a defective thermometer or just a terrible product.

It reads from 97 to 102 1/4 inch apart..get a different reading every time..Horrible thermometer and I'm only using it on adults..I'm an RN..if we had variables like this we wouldnt have this product in our hopital..would have done 0 stars if could,,it did come in timely fashion..but 3 times in 6 mos I've used it, it was useless and a guessing game

This looked like an excellent product - just what we needed for our preemie twins, but we could never get verifiable results. Check their temp 3 times, get three different results. I even tried it on myself several times. In the ear seemed to possibly work, but their ears are too tiny to that, plus they tend to move a lot.

The features are great and it's a good size/shape for easy usage. I just can't use a product for my kids I can't trust.

I got this thermometer when my son was a month old. It was great; I loved it. But then this past week my son was sick and I was using it. I knew it wasn't right because it said my son was 99.4, but he felt ALOT hotter than that. I got him into the clinic and packed my thermometer with me. When I got to the clinic he was 104.5. I used mine again right after the nurse left the room and it read 99.3. NOT GOOD! My son ended up in the hospital and I think we could have caught it sooner if this darn thing had worked. I'm gonna try to find something else that is hopefully reliable.

Bought one and tried and tried and cannot get any kind of consistent reading with it. I seem to read as 97 or 104 degrees with readings taken a minute apart. We read all the directions and followed instructions and nothing seemed to improve accuracy. It doesn't seem to be better on the forehead or the ear. It just doesn't work reliably at all. I would never trust this to take my infant's temperature.

In my experience ear thermometers generally read a little high, but this one was ridiculous: it repeatedly spat out temperatures in the 105 degree range, and we tested it against other thermometers that were giving us normal temperatures in the 98-99 degree range. That's some bad calibration, and there is no way to reset it.

Also, the "talk" feature is really annoying. The voice has an odd New York accent, which is fine but it scared the heck out of my nine-month-old daughter. You can turn the "talk" function off, but it resets itself for each use and defaults to being on. That's the last thing you want when you go to take a baby's temperature in the middle of the night.

We may have received a defective model, but we are returning it and replacing it with the Mabis Healthcare Instant Ear Thermometer, which doesn't have the forehead option or the talk feature, but works just fine.

I tried to take the temperature of my son and this thing has gave me readings from 96.9 to 101.2 No reading is the same, and each stop is dramatically different. This thing is going strait into the trash.

This thermometer is about as good as not having one at all. On one reading it will say 102.7 (which nearly stops your heart) and the next reading (within seconds of the last) will say 95.3 - and the readings continue on like that. Each consecutive reading will have several degrees difference, so you have no idea what the true temperature is.

We bought this thermometer for our son not long after he was born and he's 2 now. It has never given us a reliable reading. Today I was taking his temperature and it said 101, then 5 minutes later it said 98. We bought a new thermometer and it turns out he was at 103.6!! We tested the new one on ourselves and it's definitely accurate. So, if you want a thermometer that's going to be accurate (which I'm sure you do)...do not buy this one.