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Unsurprising, the application doesn't fit in with the new styles, doesn't behave correctly with less-than-perfect location data, doesn't understand multiple loc
by ElliotH 13y ago
Unsurprising, the application doesn't fit in with the new styles, doesn't behave correctly with less-than-perfect location data, doesn't understand multiple location sources.
I was quite a fan of finding how far I'd walked, but Google Now tells me that once a month now.
- snogglethorpe 13y ago> I was quite a fan of finding how far I'd walked, but Google Now tells me that once a month now. I compared the results of my phone's pedometer function (which seems to be quite accurate) to Google Now's walk reports, and the distances Google Now gave were wrong by an order of magnitude ... soooo, pretty much useless... >< [I've no idea how Google Now tries to calculate this, but whatever method it uses seems to be absolutely awful...]
- ElliotH 13y agoOh, that's a pity - what app do you use to do that?
- snogglethorpe 13y agoIt's one of the pre-installed (and undeletable etc) vendor apps on my Sharp 200SH (and doesn't seem to be in the play store)... unlike most vendor apps, this one is quite good (accurate, invisible, keeps a nice history, and seems to use no measurable power). I don't know exactly how it works, but I think it uses the accelerometer to count steps like a traditional pedometer. There seem to be a ton of other pedometer apps in the play store, though I don't know how well they work.