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From: Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com>
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Subject: Re: Steps counting apps
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 22:41:14 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
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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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