Sportline 360 Total Fitness Pedometer
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Ideal for walking, hiking or jogging, the Sportline® Fitness Pro pedometer accurately measures your distance, steps, calories, speed, and elapsed exercise time. A 7-day memory keeps your activity stored for quick recall, while a scan feature instantly displays all of your information. APD™ (Advanced Pendulum Design), a unique, patented, state-of-the-art pedometer counting engine, ensures accurate step and/or distance measurement. more info
Inaccurate
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I went outside and walked 200 steps with this on. It reported 102. Simply is not accurate. Do not buy.
Not bad – 5 years later needs a new battery
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I had to get it replaced once (free!) due to a few falls (but shouldn’t that be a requirement? – ability to withstand a few falls). It seems to be accurate and is discreet enough to wear on my waist without drawing a lot of attention. The 7-day memory is awesome. I need a new battery now – but it’s 5 years old, so seems due.
No Longer a Good Value
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
The Sportline 360 Fitness Pedometer is an easy to use hip-clip pedometer with a flip-down interface. While it should be a great little unit, various flaws keep it from being useful.
First, the basics. The unit is very small, about the size of a marshmallow. It clips easily at your hip. The face of the unit is protected by a plastic shell that you flip down, so you don’t have to worry about it scratching or being damaged by general activity. Then you flip it open and it tells you all the stats.
It keeps track of the steps you’ve walked since last reset, steps per minute, calories, and so on. However, for it to know how far you’ve walked, you have to enter your stride length. While you might say this is tricky to determine, it’s something you’re going to need for any pedometer, since the only thing it can count is your steps
So I don’t ding it for needing that information – however the method for entering it could certainly be easier.
However, the real problem here seems to be with how it counts your strides. Or doesn’t count your strides. It goes into “sleep mode” if it senses no activity, to save battery power I imagine. Then it wakes up if it senses movement. It doesn’t seem to do these transitions very well. So if you are really hoping for accuracy, you’re not going to get it with this unit.
Also, while the plastic clip works fine for me on my thin sweatpants I wear, I can easily see that this would be less fine on thick jeans or other thick fabrics. You probably want to get some sort of a loop to hook on a belt loop, and then clip this unit securely to that.
But really, I bought this unit maybe in 2003 or 2004 and paid probably the current list price for it. In current times you can buy a MUCH superior pedometer for half the price. So while it might have been “rather good” for its time, other units have by far surpassed it now and would be a far better value.
Shop around and look at the alternatives.
Don’t waste your money
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
It’s not very accurate because the sleep function sometimes takes some time to wake up. But what was worse was that after I owned it for two weeks, the thing stopped working! It was never dropped or damaged in anyway, it just stopped. The display just faded away and wouldn’t work again even with a new battery. This one was such a waste of money, I’ll definately buy a different brand next time.
Kind of complicated to setup.
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
The goods: Inexpensive, very light when you wear it and tracks seven days of your walking activities after you learn how it works. The best thing is the auto start and shut off.
The bads: Couldn’t read the setup instructions even with my glasses on. I had to scan and reprint a readable instructive
manual.