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Sports Tracker Coming to Real Phones Soon!
5March 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 >
Give Your Sport Tracking App a Brand New Voice
2December 3, 2010
If you’re using an Android or iPhone sports tracking app with voice cues, then you know the built in text to speech (TTS) engine sounds a bit dull and robotic. Enter SVOX Classic Text To Speech (TTS) Engine, available in the Android Market and App Store. SVOX’s HQ voices are an enormous improvement over the stock TTS engines and are served up in 25 languages, some with more than one to choose from. Once installed and set up properly with your particular voice of choice, any application which uses TTS (sports tracking, navigation, ebook reader, etc.) will suddenly sound better, almost to the point of natural.
I’m using SportsTrackLive’s SportsTracker Pro for my daily running and no other Android sport-tracking app has as many convenient audio cue options. However, the more I rely upon current stats being fed to my head through earbuds, the more weary I grow of More >
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 >
Polar WearLink Transmitter for Nike+
5June 9, 2010
Polar officially (finally!) announced heart rate monitor support for iPod users through Nike+ software and accessories. I’ve been hearing rumors about this for the past year but got the official word last Sunday via @ChrisPolarUSA on Twitter.
A look over the WearLink for Nike+ spec sheet and pricing details reveals versatility and value. With a MSRP of $69.95, you’ll get a heart rate transmitter for your iPod Nike+ set-ups that’s compatible with existing Polar hardware using familiar coded 5 kHz transmissions.
No word yet on what impact, if any, this might have on Sports Tracking Technology’s popular Sports Tracker app. Many a Sports Tracker fan knows their app was the first to officially partner with Polar Electronics using a nearly identical Polar WearLink transmitter back in January 2009. It was an extremely limited offering in three international markets that sent unlucky but ardent Sports More >