Nokia’s Sports Tracker is fine if you are into jogging about all over the place and want to build up to a marathon or something, but what if you prefer your exercise to a bit less high-impact? A pleasant walk in the country, for example.
Nokia Step Counter is fresh out of the Beta Labs and uses the same accelerometer technology as Sports Tracker. Rather than pushing you onwards and upwards like a digital, pocket-sized Nike advert, Step Counter just works like a pedometer and eschews GPS tomfoolery in favour of a bevy of stats about how far and fast you have been walking.
Using that data, plus info about your height and weight, Step Counter can tell you how many calories you have burnt off during your last promenade. Quite wht this isn’t just another version of Sports Tracker is unclear, but it could be that Nokia just want feedback on certain aspects of this kind of app.
Beta Labs have gone to great lengths to ensure the accuracy of the accelerometer reeadings and reckon that the app should be able to accurately report your pace regardless of how you carry your ophone. Nevertheless they would still appreciate feedback from users, particularly women.
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