Eufy Smart Scales Review :
For over five years I have been using a set of Eufy Smart Scales (C1) – so this review is probably well overdue! But it also means that it earns the title of long term review!
However – they are still in use, still working exactly as they did on Day 1, and have only had the batteries replaced once!
And, for the review I will keep it pretty concise.
Price at time of Purchase : £239 for the seven piece set. If you are interested in Ring Devices read on for the TBNI Ring Alarm Review.
Ring are well know for their video doorbells that let you check on who is calling at your door from anywhere in the world in live time and even let you communicate with the caller. There are cheaper video doorbells but I think it is fair to say that Ring are the market leaders, but that is not all they do.
The Ring Security eco-system contains, indoor and outdoor cameras from simple what you see is what you get cameras to cameras with spotlights and even flood lights and sirens. They all work seamlessly with Smart Home Assistants such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home – however unfortunately they have not crossed over into Apple’s HomeKit yet despite promises and teasers for the last couple of years.
All Ring Devices are managed under the Ring App which does a pretty decent job of letting your organise your devices however you wish and letting you check the view from any of them with a few simple clicks. It all works well.
But this well working doesn’t come without a price, thankfully that price is pretty reasonable, for example an annual subscription for the Ring Video Door Bell is £25, and for £80 you get a year’s subscription for as many Ring Devices as you own. For me that £80 subscription covers the doorbell, an outdoor camera and the newly (end of 2019 in the UK) released Ring Alarm. (You can buy and use the alarm with no subscription but then there is no notifications sent outside of the app should the alarm be activated.
That is the question that is getting fired about everywhere at the moment! Just look on your Twitter Feed or Facebook Page and you will see it cropping up everywhere, from friends, from tech companies, from idiots, from Apple Haters, but one thing will be common amongst them all, they will be Android Users. From some reason Android Users are Apple Haters.
Period.
However not all Apple Users are Android Haters. I can testify to this first hand, as an absolute Apple fan I am also the proud owner of a 2nd Generation Nexus 7 – and a great device it is.
So what is it with Android Users and their exclusive hatred of Apple? It is weird, but it is definitely misguided. It is the sheep comment that I love, ‘I am not a sheep! I don’t just mindlessly follow Apple and buy what they tell me! I am an individual and I use Android because it doesn’t lock me down and allows me to be an individual!’
Oh Really – Let’s put it in figures – Android has in 2014 an 80% market share. Apple hovering about 15%. It seems that really you are indeed a sheep and one of a much bigger flock.
As for being locked down, what have you customised? What have you programmed? What have you hacked, installed, or written that Apple wouldn’t have let you? Pirate movies? Pirate TV, anything else? Probably not. Oh but you have a nice Incredible Hulk theme on your Home Screen! Ah now I see your point. I know, I apologise the sarcasm is hanging out of this post, but it will stop soon for some facts and figures, honestly.
Let’s stop being juvenile about it, some like Apple, some like Android, and you know what, thats ok. But lets be realistic a high end of the market Android phone isn’t exactly cheap either. A brand new Galaxy S5 is sitting at £409 delivered from Amazon, an iPhone 5s 16Gb is only £459 delivered, so the Galaxy S5 is cheaper than an iPhone but it is only £50 of a difference, and it ridiculous to be comparing an iPhone with for example a Moto G at £80, although a great phone we need to compare like for like.
Now down to the nitty gritty – the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. The cries of £1000 for a phone, are you mad ring across the planet! Well firstly :
– It is not £1000! The most expensive variant, the iPhone 6 Plus, 128 Gb will cost you £789, that is £211 less that £1000 or over 20% less, so it is a considerable enough difference to not be negligible.
So what do you get? You get an absolute bag full of tech compressed into a 5.5 inch screen and remember of course you can go smaller and take the iPhone 6 which will cost even less £££s, but lets stick with what you get, and the simplest way for me to put it is you get this…