Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?= Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Steps counting apps Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 16:16:07 +0200 Organization: Camembert Normand au Lait Cru Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 16:16:07 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="00b5ee684a5424ba98e6463ca6ba2140"; logging-data="1694303"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/YfLvHByWsTMzx+8P62Nsgqy86v9huFvc=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:115.0) Gecko/20100101 Betterbird/115.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ejMY/o/RrIeYkXqjTdvYIOzLc8E= Content-Language: de-CH, en-GB In-Reply-To: Bytes: 1959 On 16.05.24 14:54, Carlos E.R. wrote: > On 2024-05-16 11:43, Jim the Geordie wrote: >> Just out of curiosity I thought I might try a STEPS counter app. >> Many seem to come with all sorts of health monitoring extras, which I'm >> not bothered about, but happy to enter and not use. >> However there are massive differences between them on the numbers of >> steps they claim I have taken and some don't appear to work at all. >> I'm not wanting to start a thread about the health benefits, just to >> find the simplest, accurate, free one. > > A cheap smart watch will do it easily and accurately. Jim asked for an app on his *Android phone*. By far not everyone wants to wear one of these ugly and for all visible "watches". And btw they are not more accurate than a smartphone. -- "Alea iacta est." (Julius Caesar)