use phone accelerometer for running metrics

Former Member
Former Member

Hi, I have a question.
Looking at all the various pods and various accelerometers I wondered if it was ever possible to use the motion sensor that we all have in our phone and that is often housed in our center of mass (very close to the place where the garmin running dynamic would hook) then using the phone's accelerometer to extrapolate the data for running metrics such as: stride length, ground contact time, vertical oscillation etc.
Do you think it's possible?