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Sports Tracker Coming to Real Phones Soon!

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March 30, 2011

The guys who inspired this blog made a quiet announcement last week about the future of Sports Tracker; She’s coming to Android and iPhone! Yes, perhaps the first app of its kind to be called Sports Tracker will finally make its way into the Android Marketplace and App Store “sometime” this Spring. “Sometime”, because these guys have a solid reputation for teasing and delays. However, this announcement is excellent news and I’m thrilled for what they could bring to the competition.

There was a time when it was called Nokia Sports Tracker Beta and its core dev team was affectionately known as the Sports Tracker Dudes. Ah, the memories! None finer for me than winning the grand prize in the n79 Active Edition Draw a Heart contest. But the Sports Tracker Dudes split from Nokia early last year, forming their own company in Sports More >

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Mobile World Congress 2011 Wrap-Up: Molt Excepcional!

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February 24, 2011

Well, after four days on a stationary bike at MWC 2011 for a total of 36,5 hours riden and an estimated 17.000 kcal burned, I’m back. I was able to squeeze in a couple runs, too. Hey, I couldn’t waste those gorgeous 16C (61F), snow-free roads of Barcelona! In fact, my flight home took me from a mild 16C in Barcelona to a frigid -25C (-13F) in Stockholm via a 3,5 hour flight to the north. Back to reality.

Mobile World Congress 2011 was a huge success from my perspective. The entire event I was surrounded with some of the most important and influential companies and individuals in mHealth today. Most notably were they who made up my partnering team from Qualcomm Health and Zephyr Technology. My role was simple: Demonstrate the “remote physiological monitoring” capabilities of Zephyr’s BioHarness for up to 10 hours a day while engaging in what More >

Zephyr’s BioHarness: The Ultimate Bluetooth Heart Rate Monitor -review

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January 11, 2011

ANNOUNCEMENT: Discuss your BioHarness at our new RunningDigital Forums

Zephyr Technology’s HxM heart rate and cadence sensor has been an important tool in my arsenal for several months now. It consistently provides the quality data I need and it proves mHealth (Mobile Health concept) works well in Android. Zephyr’s available HxM SDK is being used by more and more developers to add the HxM’s unique functionality into their apps, allowing developers to incorporate the HxM how they see fit while giving consumers the flexibility to use the HxM with any mobile/app combination they want. In fact, no two apps or consumers may use the HxM is exactly the same manner. One dev may decide that only heart rate data is enough, while another includes heart rate stats to a caloric expenditure algorithm. Not every app takes advantage of the HxM’s cadence data, yet some use it to approximate indoor training distances More >

SonyEricsson’s LiveView -Review

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November 23, 2010

I’ve had SonyEricsson’s LiveView notification module for a week now and it’s time to make my mind up about it. Having used it thoroughly both for it’s out-of-the-box features and for it’s plug in bonuses. The later being why I wanted to try LiveView in the first place, taking advantage of SportyPal Pro notifications integration. SportyPal Pro beta for Android 2.x+up was simultaneously released when LiveView went to market last week and is an important upgrade to CreationPal’s suite of sports apps as it now incorporates Zephyr’s HxM heart rate monitor information.

Before I proceed I want to applaud the innovative effort that LiveView is. I think a device like this has good potential that requires further development from SonyEricsson, and ideally from other manufacturers. LiveView is an early-adopter More >

First Look at LiveView from Sony Ericsson

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November 16, 2010

My first video review! YouTube Full review will post after some field testing this week.

-Update- My initial impressions of this little accessory include slight disappointment. It may partly come from the fact that my HTC Desire has set the bar high enough that using anything else feels like a compromise. No, I wasn’t expecting the LiveView to do anything more than advertised, but I had hoped such a tiny device would at least feel solid and durable. It’s just okay. For one, the screen resolution should be better for such a size. Also, the hard keys don’t always respond; Multiple presses with varying degrees of pressure gave inconsistent results. That made the device feel a bit cheap.

I’ve had it connected and receiving notifications all day reliably. However, after an hour or so I lost any desire to read my messages via the module, reaching for More >

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