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For all you Nokia S60 users out there, you can now track, upload, and share your progress on your exercise routine in very specific detail.
The Nokia Sports Tracker service, currently in Beta, uses GPS coordinates and timestamp information to provide detailed information about your latest run, bike, walk, or other exercise. After uploading a “track”, the Nokia website displays maximum and minimum speeds, start time and duration, distance, altitude, and a complete map of your route via Google maps.
Users will need to create an account before uploading tracks, and the service lets you upload as many track as you wish. The service is free of charge at the time of this writing.
Mobile Service:
http://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/main/index.do
August 27th, 2008
This week the Carnival has come home to where it was started in October 2005, where its founder and Papa Midway Master Russell Buckley is the host at MobHappy.
MobHappy always dishes up some great content on mobile technology in general. Be sure to check them out.
August 26th, 2008
If you live in Washington DC, or are visiting the nation’s capital for any length of time, you’ll want to know where to catch the nearest Metro station (DC’s version of the subway).
Now you can do that straight from your iPhone or other mobile device, thanks to the good folks at Meenster. This simple, but useful mobile website allows users to view Metro station address information, including a link to the location on Google Maps.
Users simply select the Metro line they’ll be riding on, then click on any station to view the street address. One suggestion we have is to let users select their destination (by landmark, address, etc.), then have the tool display the closest Metro Station. I’d imagine that type of functionality is on their list somewhere, so we’ll have to keep an eye on it.
What about your city? Do you know of any mobile websites focused on public transit in your area? If so, go ahead and share your insight in a comment.
Mobile Website:
www.meenster.com
August 25th, 2008
In case you missed it, mobilejones hosted this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists.
As one can imagine from the title, the articles in Carnival #137 were primarily focused on Twitter and the iPhone. But there is a healthy dose of other interesting topics as well, including two posts around lifehacking with your mobile, and a mobile wiki for international travelers.
Go check it out!
August 23rd, 2008
iGloo is a mobile community and directory of mobile websites where users can chat, use email, and find topics of interest across the mobile web. iGloo also includes a dating area and mobile social networking functions (”iGloo Friends”) so friends can keep in touch and meet up from wherever they are.
iGloo has some strong base functionality, but still has a long way to go. We noticed way too many errors (including html code displaying in plain text on the page) for it to be ready for prime time just yet. But we’ll keep an eye on them and we are rooting for a big improvement real soon.
If you think you can overlook the errors, go ahead and take it for a ride and let us know what you think!
Mobile Website:
igloo.mobi
August 21st, 2008
Plucker is an eBook reader for Palm OS and Windows Mobile devices. It’s an interesting project that seems to have quite a following in the development community.
Their own description of the project from their website says it best:
Plucker is an offline Web and free eBook reader for Palm OS® based handheld devices, Windows Mobile (PocketPC) devices and other handheld PDAs. Plucker contains POSIX tools, scripts and “conduits” which work on UNIX, Linux, Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X. These let you decide exactly what part of the World Wide Web you’d like to convert for reading on your PDA. These web pages are then processed, compressed, and transferred to the PDA for viewing by the Plucker viewer.
This would be ideal for long trips via plane, train, or automobiles. Want to see more? View the Plucker screenshots here.
Enjoy!
August 20th, 2008
As anticipated, the FCC has officially approved the first mobile phone to run on the Google Android platform. As we anticipated back in March, the Dream from Korean handset manufacturer HTC was just recently approved, and could be released by November 10, or possibly earlier. Wireless carrier T-Mobile will be the carrier for the phone in the U.S.
It will be very interesting to see how much momentum this first Android phone builds. There will be a good surge of early adopters for the holiday season, but it will take a bit of time before more Android apps become available and the platform is more stable. At that point though, watch out iPhone.
Find out more about the Android platform here.
August 19th, 2008
That’s right. The most often talked about iPhone feature, visual voicemail, is now available for any Windows Mobile phone. But that’s just the beginning. Continue to see how to enable visual voicemail on your Windows Mobile phone…
August 18th, 2008
There are a growing number of mobile websites vying to become the homepage or portal of mobile phones everywhere. Obviously, it can be a challenge for off-deck mobile websites to be that first thing folks will see when opening their mobile browser.
The folks at KeyToss are making a valiant effort. They just announced the beta release of version 2 of their smartphone portal, which adds newsfeeds, user accounts, and customized modules, among other features.
If anyone out there has given KeyToss a try, do let us know what you think!
Mobile Website:
http://m.keytoss.com/
August 14th, 2008
Our readers may recall a previous post where we talked about how to get FriendFeed, Yelp, Twitter, and LinkedIn messages to your mobile phone.
If you’d like to do more with Yelp on your phone, go check out their mobile website at mobile.yelp.com. Type in the kind of food you’re in the mood for, enter a zip code, and check out reviews and other details of your local restaurants.
Just don’t do it on an empty stomach.
Mobile Website:
mobile.yelp.com
August 13th, 2008
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