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From: Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Steps counting apps
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 19:19:28 +0100
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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

-- 
Jim the Geordie