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@Wetrix Recently I've been looking for a sort of fitness tracking watch for heart rate and steps and it's a genuine fucking nightmare already. You either fork out an ungodly amount of cash for a bare bones watch that does the minimum possible or you sell your soul away to Google just to try to figure out how many steps you walked today. It's impossible. I can only hope that the next generation of wearables isn't too much worse.
@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat use your phone? I track my steps using a phone app. 🙃
@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat I have apps that measure my heart rate. So you can do that?
They are pretty accurate on iPhone. They work by the phone sensing motion for your steps so you don't need to be tracked by an app 😊
@Wetrix Apps cant do that, phones don't have heart rate sensors. I think whatever app you think is doing that is lying to you.
@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat it's the phone doing it, and yes that's how it works 😊
I've tried it, it's pretty cool actually.
@Wetrix Due to the physical lack of capable hardware to achieve that I'm certainly sceptical. Do you happen to have the link for the app?
@Wetrix I would use my phone but A; phones aren't that accurate when it comes to step tracking and B; they can't measure your heart rate. Other than those issues, tracking steps with your phone is fine