Comment Re:They've been moving that way for a while (Score 2) 13
My wife's latest Omnipod pump comes with a controller which, if you were to dismantle it, would likely turn out to be an off-the-shelf unbranded smartphone running a customized Android. Presumably this device is a stopgap until that app gets approval.
I'm just guessing that your wife is using the dash model? I just got hooked up today. The off brand android model is called a PDM, and it has all of the cell phone bits turned off. To my knowledge, the us gov't didn't originally allow insulin delivery via smart phone until today - thus the cheap android/pdm device. There is an omnipod model 5 coming out is the very near future - it's my understanding that it should talk to smart phones then.