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Bluetooth and ANT+ Sensor Tech for Mobile Phones Today
42October 30, 2010
*NEWS: iPhone 4S includes Bluetooth v4.0. See latest posts for details. *
Today’s post will attempt to outline the available connectivity solutions for sports applications across the major mobile platforms including Android, iPhone and Symbian. When you add up the number of daily smartphone activations around the globe, we’re talking over a half-million new handsets every day. Hard to believe especially when you do the extensions for the next calendar year: 1,8 billion! While I have no statistics on the number of people using their handsets for fitness logging or sports tracking, I have read that nearly 30% of the general population are runners. Statistics…meh. Nevertheless, we can draw a conclusion that there might be a lot of folks willing, and wanting, to use their new phones to track their fitness. So before I break down our options, I want to address something that gives you an idea of More >
Google’s MyTracks app to Provide Real-Time Tour de France Data
13July 2, 2010
I’ll get to the headline news in just a moment, but first an announcement on Google’s MyTracks Android app:
Very soon, Google’s MyTracks sports tracking application will be updated to support both ANT+ and Bluetooth devices, making MyTracks one of the most versatile apps in its category.
Back to the headline… Exciting news surrounding Tour de France coverage! Google and High Road Sports have entered a collaboration, together with partnerships from HTC and SRM, to bring spectators of the Tour de France closer than ever seen before.
High Road Sports announces a new technology and marketing collaboration with Google Inc., supported by partners HTC and SRM, that brings a worldwide audience further inside the experience of racing in the Tour de France.
Fans and viewers will be able to follow Team HTC-Columbia riders in real time with speed, heart rate, power output and other data provided by SRM, More >