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Charge 2 vs. Samsung Health

justinejacksonm
justinejacksonm Posts: 75 Member
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
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I tend to believe my Samsung may be more accurate in terms of recording my distance than my Fitbit. I usually just use my Fitbit but have noticed recently that while my walks are progressively longer and more challenging, no matter what route I take my end distances are very similar which I find hard to believe. Today I decided to record my walk/jog with both and the discrepancy between them kinda confirms for me my suspicion.

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  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,103 Member
    Did you set the same custom stride length with both? I find the fitbit charge 2 to be rather close for me. When I walk about 20km then the fitbit is possibly 500m off. But as it massively overstates calorie burns for me anyway (it gave me ridiculous 1822 gross calories for a relaxing 18km walk!) I don't care.
  • justinejacksonm
    justinejacksonm Posts: 75 Member
    I don't know anything about stride length... Never saw an option for this. I honestly thought it just calculated based on actual distance. I've done the same walk more than once and one time it's just hitting 7 miles and the next, 6.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,103 Member
    justinejacksonm wrote: »
    I don't know anything about stride length... Never saw an option for this. I honestly thought it just calculated based on actual distance. I've done the same walk more than once and one time it's just hitting 7 miles and the next, 6.

    It depends. Do you use your phone's gps with the two trackers? If not then at least the Fitbit doesn't know how far you walk as it doesn't have a build-in GPS. Not sure if the other one has. and then there are different settings in your phone that increase and decrease GPS accuracy as well. For example energy saver on the iphone massively decreases GPS accuracy.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    justinejacksonm wrote: »
    I don't know anything about stride length... Never saw an option for this. I honestly thought it just calculated based on actual distance. I've done the same walk more than once and one time it's just hitting 7 miles and the next, 6.

    Your charge 2 is just estimating distance as per steps taken as it is not a GPS device. Presumably your phone would be using GPS to determine distance traveled.
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