I've had an older Kardia Mobile for several years now, which worked well with the phone I owned at the time I bought it (Samsung 4 mini). When that phone died, I got a used Motorola G5 (NOT 5G!), and it worked well with that. Later I got a used OnePlus 5T, and found it would not receive the signal from the Kardia, so I have hung on to the Moto just for the sake of the Kardia.
After five years of use, the battery of the OnePlus has become tired, and many modern things are not working well due to lack of upgrades being available. Today I replaced it with a nice new Google Pixel 8, and, to my great surprise, the Kardia works well with that phone provided I turn off the NFC facility (and remember to turn it back on afterwards!).
I thought I would share my happiness 😀
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NFC? More surprising to me is I thought you were going to say the battery had died in the Kardia. It happened to mine and Kardia told me that the battery couldn't be replaced. It can and I did. Happy me at that time too lol. I've upgraded but I kept the old one because you never know 😉
No. The old single lead Kardia uses very high frequency sound to communicate via the phone microphone, no Bluetooth in it. A large number of more modern phones have a some sort of noise cancelling on their microphones, which defeats the Kardia. Why NFC? I've no idea, but the Kardia app told me to switch it off, and also provided a button to do just that! Cool, but no reminder to put it back on again (I do use G-pay).
PS. Just a bit more. You say your Kardia is an "older" model? Is that the "older" model that used sound to communicate between the device and your phone, rather than the newer Bluetooth?
And re NFC, I have just read it's best, for security reasons, to keep it OFF and only turn it ON when you need to use it. But I might be talking "cow dung".🤔
Yes, I think all the single lead Kardias use that system, unless it's been upgraded in recent years. Mine dates back to the start of my AF seven years ago. Currently my last instance was in October last year, but never say 'never', or 'cured'.
As for the 'cow dung', my son lives in Stockholm and is still very unfamiliar with Swedish coins and notes as he's rarely seen any. Everything is done by NFC there, for buses, trams, coffees or anything else.
Yes, ubiquitous it seems, as well as the metaphorical "cow dung" I mentioned. I had read that scammers can "eavesdrop" on NFC signals if close enough.🤔
Perhaps I'm overly cautious because I was working in computer systems design and software back in the 1960's, before I found something more suitable. In those days 4000 (ie. 4K) of storage was a device about the size of a fridge. Try wearing that on your wrist!
A lot of my generation (77) prefer cash. Let's not encourage youngsters to make cash obsolete before us oldies die out.
I had some anxiety when I had to buy a new phone fearing my Kardia device wouldn't work with it. Kardia has a list on their web site of compatible phones but luckily enough even though my phone was recently removed from their list it remained compatible.
A lot of people on here seem to have Kardias.I have an EMay to take my heart readings. It’s cheaper than a Kardia. It takes heart readings and I can then put them on my phone, so I can show the Doctors.
You can do the same with Kardia as far as having it on your phone & can either send the readings to your doc in a pdf , print or just show your doc on your phone. I don't pay Kardia for their monthly service because I did initially til I realized it really isn't necessary. Nor was it helpful the one time I used their cardiologist service to read an unclassified tracing it was 24 hours before I got a reply...so basically useless in my opinion. So for the cost, if you pay the one time fee for the monitor & on sale you can catch it for $79, it's not bad. Just a side note , if you're not in a hurry you can also find new one's on eBay for $35 , I did that to have a back up
Does the eMay have a monthly charge ? And what services do you receive with that cost ?
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