Monday, November 23, 2009

Living Well

5 Great Health Applications for Your iPhone

And 1 lousy one

Posted July 29, 2008

Not every program in Apple's new software store is a winner. Our least favorite application in the healthcare and fitness category was Steps. This pedometer program uses the iPhone's built-in accelerometer to measure the number of steps a user takes. Unfortunately, it simply isn't accurate. In testing, it seemed to register only one of every two or three steps we took. It's a worthy idea that could be useful if its accuracy were improved, but at $1.99, save your money for Super Monkey Ball ($9.99).

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