Customer Reviews:
 Maybe it's just me... June 26, 2007
LMD
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Unfortunately, this item doesn't actually count the steps correctly for me. There's a little switch to help calibrate the pedometer, but no matter how I set the calibration if I walk 50 steps it shows that I walked 4 or 5. It counts based on shaking, so maybe I'm just so smooth the pedometer can't tell I'm walking, but I doubt it. Honestly, I had pretty low expectations, so I'm not shocked.
Pedometer that fails in its main purpose June 1, 2007
S. Endsley
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This pedometer which can be found at Walmart in the pharmacy section of the store for about $10 is a real dud in my opinion. I will grant you that it does have several nice features: for example, it counts "aerobic steps" in addition to regular steps. Regular steps are counted any time you move with enough intensity for it to register on the machine. If you had the machine on your person, you could get up and go to the refrigerator and it would count each step you take. "Aerobic steps", on the other hand,are counted when you use the pedometer continuously over a set length of time-- like when you want to go for a walk. This way you can have the unit on your person all day and the time you spend in a continuous aerobic activity will be tallied by the "aerobic steps" feature. What this gives you is a tally of your actual "aerobic" activity. Nice feature but the problem with the unit is getting it to register accurately each time you take a step. My experience with this pedometer is that it is either way too sensitive to your movements or barely registers anything at all. In the instructions it says to walk 100 steps counting the total in your head and then comparing it with what the machine picks up. With this information you adjust the unit's intensity manually. The place you do this (in the lower left-hand corner) is so tiny that it's physically hard to adjust. Out of maybe 10 tries I could only get one occasion when it counted my movements accurately. Every other time was way off. Bottom line, I don't recommend this unit and I think I'm going to stay aways from Omron pedometers entirely. They have some more espensive models but they have lost my confidence. When you do buy any pedometer, save the receipt so you can return it if you have the same problem.
 Pedometer Rating February 23, 2007
Richard W. Critchlow (St. Petersburg, FL)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the best pedometer I've found. It has a steps function, arobic steps function and arobic time. br / br /Hard to find but the best.
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