I've been using a Fitbit for the last year or so and the step count has always been surprisingly accurate, and agreed with the phone in my pocket. I bought my wife one for Christmas but it recorded about 10,000 extra steps a day - the replacement did the same thing so I got her to wear both mine and the new one and then I wore them both. When she wore them they both hugely over-counted during day-to-day activities but were fairly accurate on a walk; both performed correctly when I wore them. Strange! She's "energetic" but doesn't fidget or do anything unusual except bite her fingers. We concluded that a Fitbit was not for her and returned it.
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6 years ago