I hate to bad mouth something but this is useless as a pedometer. I counted 2000 steps (keeping track in units of 100), this so called pedometer counted 2796. An error of 39.8 percent. That is totally unacceptable.

In an effort to be fair and objective I tried using this again today. I counted 3000 steps using the same method. The pedometer counted 3930 steps. An error of 31 percent this time. I stand by my title "Don't Buy This One".

wow. cute unit. whoopie. got it programmed but like many other users, mine had me walking over 2 1/2 times the steps i was taking.no matter how many times i reset the programming. my friends did have a good laugh that a 57 y.o.is seemingly superhuman! finally have given up and am returning to amazon tonight. will try a model that isn't so fancy (again, as other users have suggested). it's like rolling the dice on any product sight unseen. read reviews, calculate the odds & hope you get a "good" one and not one of the defects. can't say they're all bad. just bad luck on the one i drew i guess.

I like this pedometer, but there are a couple of caveats. 1) Even though it is advertised to be a 3 axis pedometer (will work in any orientation), in my experience, I have to clip it upright to my belt or pants waistband in order for it to count my steps accurately, i.e., it does not count accurately when I just put it in my pants pocket, and 2) They include a strap and clip with this pedometer for a reason: it will often fall off if I do not attach it with the strap.

By the way, before I started using the strap, it fell off in the yard and was lost for a couple of days and got wet from rain and the yard sprinklers. It sort of still worked, but was questionable. So I looked on-line about repairing a wet cell phone, and one site recommended taking the phone apart and drying it out by hand as best you could, then putting it in front of a fan to dry it out completely. I tried this method with the wet pedometer (the pedometer comes with a tiny screwdriver that works great for the repair), and it worked like a champ. It has been 3 weeks since I dried the pedometer out, and it is working great.

I did not purchase the unit that I have from Amazon. However, I can say that I am very happy with my device. It has capped track of my steps since April 18, 2016, which is well over 30 days. I like the various modes that are displayed at the touch of a finger. As a result of the benefits of using this device to keep record of the number of steps walked daily, I purchase a device for a friend from Amazon which I will be giving to her very soon. It is my hope that she will use the device in order to become more active. I gave my daughter a device which was purchase from a health clinic and she has been using it for about 2 weeks with great success. I highly recommend this device as a tool to assist one in seeing how active they are on a daily basis. Walking does not cost anyone but time. Walking is a nature function, thus I would not consider it exercise. Back on topic, I recommend the use of the device, it is easy to use once you have inputted all the necessary information, such as your stride, etc.

For me the most important thing is that it be accurate. I've tested it several times by counting 100 or 200 steps during a walk, and it always is either right on the nose or else at most 1 or 2 off, which I attribute to maybe changing my stride at the end of the count by accident. By the way, my sense is that the accuracy is a bit better when I wear it on my belt than it is when I wear it on a shirt pocket, although the instructions seemed to say you can wear it anywhere. I have not really tested this, though, since I'm just happy that it's accurate, and the belt is fine; I have almost never worn it elsewhere when I walk.

I've seen reviews complaining that the "30 day" memory is actually only 7 days, but I've had mine for about 14 days now and it remembers the daily total (and other data) for each of the days I've had it. So I think the "30 days" is probably going to be accurate, and I'm glad the pedometer has this feature. I don't really care about the other data (miles, calories, minutes, total steps since purchase) so I have no comment about them. I'm glad they're there since I like numbers and occasionally glance at them, but that's about it. I know some people will pay more attention to those numbers. Occasionally I've been glad to have the time of day there, when I wasn't wearing my watch.

What I can definitely say is that I find myself literally going the extra mile to try to bump my daily totals, which I never did before I had a way of accurately counting my steps. (This would be true with any pedometer, as long as it's accurate.) I'm taking the "long way" to my office every day (almost double the distance), and taking extra walks. It's a little bit embarrassing that an inexpensive little toy can get me to change my habits when common sense and doctors couldn't, but there you have it.

By the way, I did not get any discount or incentive from Ozeri or Amazon to write this review.