Workout app huge disappointment

[Julien]

If you bring your phone it uses gps. If I run with my phone on my precisely measured 2.0 mile run it registers 2.0 miles every time. When I leave the phone at home it measures 2.1 to 2.25.

It is dynamically calibrating as you run. It is not mapping. Also I have well over a 100 runs all with my iPhone, except for indoor. I have experienced accuracy from spot on to well over 10% off.

I also use a Garmin 620 and Nike+ on my iPhone on every run (3 recordings) and have supplemented with various other devices too.

 

[Johnno87]

It uses the phone's GPS.

At least, it's supposed to.

Runkeeper do have different distance then work out. While using the same iPhone. Looks like it's not using full GPS

 

[nicho]

Runkeeper do have different distance then work out. While using the same iPhone. Looks like it's not using full GPS

Couldn't that be a problem with the A-GPS on the phone which uses cell towers to "help" find a gps location... Runkeeper recently measured me at 0.2miles on an elliptical machine with my phone beside the machine (laying still) because I used gps instead of stopwatch mode and it thought I was a little distance away and realised I wasn't - and showed me going there and back on the map while clearly I hadn't gone anywhere.

 

[maxsix]

When you do your crossfit and trx session what do u choose?....other?

I am very active.
Run, Swim, Cycle, heavy training routine, triathlete, and much more. My SUUNTO Ambit 3 puts the AW to shame.

But in fairness AW is a gadget, not a precise instrument like the well engineered SUUNTO products.