I walked 5,000 steps with the $600 Polar Vantage V3 and $80 Amazfit Bip 5 — and this was more accurate

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Pricey vs affordable. Circle vs square. Who will win this epic fight of the fitness trackers?

I walked 5,000 steps with the $600 Polar Vantage V3 and $80 Amazfit Bip 5 — and this was more accurate : Read more

 

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Dear Tom,
Polar doesn't count real steps, it is an estimate from your activities. During swimming it also counts 'steps'. 'Steps' is just an easy to interpret data set. It is recording lots of other (for most athletes more important) data .

See chapter 3.5 https://www.polar.com/en/img/static/whitepapers/pdf/polar-activity-tracking-white-paper.pdf