Study: Smartphones Just As Good As Fitness Trackers For Counting Steps

jfruh writes While dedicated fitness trackers that you wear around your wrist have any number of functions, many people are focused on a single metric: counting steps, which serves as a proxy for determining how active you are. But a recent study from the University of Pennsylvania showed that if that's mainly what you want out of a fitness tracker, then you almost certainly have a device in your pocket that can do the same thing as well if not better: your smartphone.

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Re:But the price...

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TFS

you almost certainly have a device in your pocket that can do the same thing as well if not better: your smartphone

implies that you already have a smartphone. So, use it instead of purchasing another device...