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Article: Nokia creates personal fitness applications for smartphones.(Brief article)
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- New Media Age
- Article date:
- December 7, 2006
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Mobile handset manufacturer Nokia has developed Personal Best, a GPS and sensor-based sports monitoring application to run on its S60 smartphones.
It allows running enthusiasts to enter speed, distance, heart rate and time, which are stored in a training diary. Users can share their performance data with each other, phone-to-phone or via phone-to-web browsers.
Personal Best works with integrated or Bluetooth-enabled sensors, such as GPS, a heart rate monitor, accelerometer or altimeter/barometer. It also supports multiple map content such as satellite and street maps.
The demonstration version seen by NMA used Google Maps, but when the ...