[acb-diabetics] Solo V2: Was Re: Introducing myself

[Mike Freeman]

Dotty:

To my knowledge, only the SensoCard Plus allowed one to delete readings 
selectively.  I've always pushed for this feature in meters but, to be 
frank, some manufacturers are reluctant to implement this ability because 
they are afraid that diabetics will clean up their logs and delete all the 
"bad" readings.  I say if they do this, let 'em.  They're only hurting 
themselves.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dorothea Martin" <bestsinger at samobile.net>
To: <acb-diabetics at acb.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 6:18 AM
Subject: Re: [acb-diabetics] Solo V2: Was Re: Introducing myself


> Hello, Mike,
> Your statement about the deplorable situation of home blood glucose meters 
> is certainly something I can agree with. The situation of talking meters 
> is even worse.
> We have the Prodigy Voice, it speaks everything except "Insufficient 
> blood," and includes the low reading in the average. And it talks and 
> talks, in your purse, pocket and everywhere else.
> We have the Solo V2. It has corrected the nonstop talking problems with 
> buttons that are not very sensitive, so they don't activate inadvertently. 
> It doesn't speak the time of previous readings and only speaks the last 
> ten readings. I have a Windows Vista computer and haven't been able to 
> install its software without getting an error report. Neither the Prodigy 
> Voice nor the Solo V2 is sold in Europe, by the way.
> There is the SensoCard Plus, made in Ireland. Everything speaks but RNIB 
> and Cobolt have discontinued it in favor of--guess what? The Clever Chek.
> Now, the Clever Chek, or Clever Choice, as i9t's now called, has its 
> setting button in the battery case. All, right, we could put up with that, 
> but, it never speaks when there is sufficient blood and the testing 
> begins. And The UK has to put up with this? Oh, my God! Somebody should 
> open a Prodigy office in Europe.
> Then there is the GlukiPlus and its successor, the GlukiDoc, both sold by 
> Caretec of Austria. I imagine they work well; everything made by Caretec 
> does. And they use Ascensia test strips. But has anyone got megabucks? The 
> GlukiPlus costs some 700 euros and the GlukiDoc nearly one thousand.
> Then we have the Fora V20. The American Foundation for the BGlind says 
> that this meter is fully accessible, and a close reading of its 
> instruction manual bears this out. But try to find one! Maxi Aids sells it 
> for $67, I believe, but try to find one in Europe. It appears to be pretty 
> much a copy of the Prodigy Voice with the difference that a reading less 
> than 20 milligrams per deciliter is not averaged in.
> I guess that blind diabetics in the States should be a bit happy with 
> their Prodigy Autocodes (which American Diabetes Wholesale is giving away 
> free with 200 test strips), the Prodigy Voice, the Solo V2 and the Fora 
> V20, if you want to buy from Maxi Aids. These are all under a hundred 
> dollars, even if you don't have insurance. But pity the European blind! No 
> good options here.
> If anyone knows of options which I haven't found, I would be thrilled to 
> be corrected.
> Dotty Martin
>
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