Customer Rating:  
Summary: The best on the market, unfortunately.
Comment: The Bad:
I've owned a BD digital thermometer for the last 8 years. My first one stopped working after 5 years. The replacement only lasted 2 years and was inconsistent from the day I got it. I actually bought 2 this time around to save on shipping, since I expect to replace it again.
The flaw in the product is that randomly it just stops working. Typically it takes between 90 seconds and 2 minutes to take a temperature, beeping every 4 seconds or so, ending with a string of beeps to let you know that it's done. Every 10 or 15 uses, the beeping begins to slow. Sometimes it takes 3 or 4 minutes and finally gives the ending beep. Sometimes it just doesn't ever stop. I timed it once out to 10 minutes with the last beep being at 7 1/2 minutes before I turned it off and tried it again. It does this more often when used to measure an actual fever.
The Good:
It's the best basal thermometer on the market. Perhaps that's because it's getting harder and harder to find one made by anyone else. But, when it actually works, it's an appropriately sensitive thermometer. And after all, the main reason to but a basal thermometer is for its sensitivity to 0.01 degrees. It does that, so I put up with its "idiosyncrasies"
Customer Rating:
Summary: Does its job
Comment: works as described - only flaw: since i use it in bed, before getting up (as instructed) it is often too dark to read the results...the screen is backlight only when being turned on or off - not when the temp reading is given.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Can't stand the incessant beeping!
Comment: This thermometer has a feature called "accubeep." It beeps loudly every 4 seconds during the minute or so that it takes to take your temperature. According to the manufacturer, this is supposed to assure you that the thermometer is correctly positioned in your mouth. At 6am, this is horribly annoying. Plus, being a basal thermometer, it is obviously intended for adult use, on a daily basis, I might add. What adult who takes her temperature every day would need help figuring out how to put the thermometer in her mouth? I had to stop using the thing, it was just too annoying.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Slow and obnoxious
Comment: This is a slow slow SLOW thermometer that only has one decimal place (typically basal thermometers have two). However, the real killer is the beeping that it does while it's taking your temperature. Most people using this probably do so early in the mornings with with a partner in their bed and there is no way to quietly use this thing without disturbing him. Beeping when it's done would be one thing, but beeping repeatedly is just stupid. Moreover, it does have a light-up screen but it doesn't light up automatically! You have to press the button fast before the read-out disappears.
On the plus side, it has a memory feature, which is useful when you don't hit the button fast enough to light up the screen and have to check it later.
All in all, I would rather have just gotten a cheap regular thermometer from a drug store.
Customer Rating:
Summary: good thermometer
Comment: This basal thermometer is good. It takes awhile to get the reading, but is accurate and allows great prediction of ovulation.
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