Posts Tagged ‘a490’

I agree with most everything that recent favorables reviews have said. A couple of additional things that I’ll emphasize.

1) Easy to use. Step on and get your reading immediately. Big clear display with blue backlighting makes it easy to read, even in the dark.
2) Stylish. Looks cool with the near transparent glass platform and sits elegantly in a corner of my bathroom.
3) The glass is nicer than some of the other scales that I have had where after a while water stains appear or water loosens the adhesive of the scale covering causing it to peel back and looking unsightly.

Only two minor things I’ll mention (probably because I’m picky):
a) The manual said that the default factory setting was in pounds, but the switch on the underside of the scale was set to kilograms. Not a big deal as the switch is easy to change; still it was a surprise.
b) One day I accidently stepped on the edge of the scale (it’s tempered transparent glass), and because of the positioning of the feet relative to the edge of the glass platform, the scale flipped up. I was afraid that I was about to break the glass, but I caught it in time. This hasn’t happened again as I’m more careful. The glass may be strong enough to handle flipping over, but I would not recommend this scale for a child’s bathroom because of the potential for glass breakage. I’m sure that’s why it is made of tempered glass to make it as safe as possible; no one would cut themselves, but it would be a mess.
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