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Subject: Re: Steps counting apps
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 19:14:04 +0200
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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.

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