Re: Steps counting apps

Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> Wrote in message:

In article <v25ess$1lp06$1@dont-email.me>, hugybear@gmx.net says...

 
On 16.05.24 19:05, Dave Royal wrote:

Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> Wrote in message:

I just set up 4 apps before going out. When I got back: they said I had
taken 305, or 476, or 210, or 558 steps!!!

 
You can't have been out for long! Or they grossly underestimate.
Why not do a test, count your steps, and see which one us best?

 
+1; even the 558 steps are at best 250 m.
 

I see there's an NHS app: have you got that? And there are - or
 were - pedometers - maybe on ebay.

 
The whole issue depends on the sensor quality of the phone and how/where
the phone is placed during the count.

 
all on the same phone at the same time

Looking at auctions of old pedometers on ebay I see that they
 often clipped to the waistband or a belt.

If I actually wanted to count my steps I might offer a few quid
 for this:
THE SUN WALKERS Walk-o-meter Step Counter Vintage Collectable.
(That's the Sun newspaper and Walkers as in crisps. )

Or maybe the wrist band made by Kelloggs.


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