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Originally Posted by Keezheekoni

It's disappointing to me to, Kevin. I talked with the Lifescan rep at the expo last weekend and he gave me the impression that it was a fully functioning UltraSmart, with the wireless capability for Paradigm pumps. As you noticed, it is basically just a big Ultra2.

My understanding was it was the Ultra 2 with the link. That's what I had been told. And basically that's what it is, but redesigned.

Originally Posted by shiftzor

It requires coding like the ultra2, I think they basically cut features to make it "economical" and rushed it to market, that is just a guess since they did drop their own meter. Still it is their first attempt at merging the ultra technology with their own, so hopefully new revisions of the model will improve. I do like the concept, now all I need is a pump .

Actually, if they took just the Ultra 2 or the Ultra Smart and added the RF technology to it with no other changes they could have had the product approved in less than 30 days. Minor changes to an item get fast approval. What they did here that took them so long is they essentially made an entirely new meter for use with the Link technology. And as you pointed out, it still requires coding. I still have not heard of Lifescan dropping coding anytime soon, which would be extremely nice since most other companies are now doing it or puttinga the coding technology in the strip to reduce innacuracies.