Friday, June 24, 2005
Sportsdo Releases Five New PocketPC Applications
Posted by Ekkie Tepsupornchai in "SOFTWARE" @ 10:00 AM
If you into outdoor fitness and excercise activities and would love to use your technology to track and/or log your activity, then you may be interested in knowing about a company called Sportdo. Sportsdo is looking to leverage your GPS-enabled Pocket PC or Smartphone into a full tracking system for your outdoor exploits, whether it be cycling, biking, running, snowboarding, or skiing.
Think of these applications as an advanced digital pedometer, providing you with a full set of real-time metrics such as elapsed time, speed, gradient, calories burned, distance covered, and altitude. The Sportsdo products will also allow you to keep a log of your entire progression as you go, so you can review your progress afterwards. In fact, while you can view all this information real-time, I would think it would the bigger benefit would be for logging and post-event review (unless you like the idea of looking at your PPC while you're snowboarding). These applications don't come cheap at £30 GBP (~$55 USD). On the other hand, they are highly niche applications, so it would be difficult to get this functionality elsewhere. The full set of apps include Cycledo, Bikedo, Rundo, Snowdo, or Skido. Now with that said, I'm not sure what benefit you would get from buying more than one of these applications as each one seems to track the same metrics.
Think of these applications as an advanced digital pedometer, providing you with a full set of real-time metrics such as elapsed time, speed, gradient, calories burned, distance covered, and altitude. The Sportsdo products will also allow you to keep a log of your entire progression as you go, so you can review your progress afterwards. In fact, while you can view all this information real-time, I would think it would the bigger benefit would be for logging and post-event review (unless you like the idea of looking at your PPC while you're snowboarding). These applications don't come cheap at £30 GBP (~$55 USD). On the other hand, they are highly niche applications, so it would be difficult to get this functionality elsewhere. The full set of apps include Cycledo, Bikedo, Rundo, Snowdo, or Skido. Now with that said, I'm not sure what benefit you would get from buying more than one of these applications as each one seems to track the same metrics.
