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Nokia’s N79 Active cell phone and Polar Bluetooth Wearlink heart rate measurement unit package provides a serious tool for monitoring your fitness when combined with Nokia’s Sports Tracker software application (free download). With the phone secured in an included arm band and your heart rate data collected by the N79 Active over a Bluetooth connection to the heart rate belt worn around your chest, you are set to train in an intelligent manner to raise your fitness.

The Nokia N79 Active phone is no different to other N79 phones with 3G network speeds, Wi-Fi, 5-megapixel camera (+ video), GPS and Symbian operating system. With the input from the N79s built-in GPS receiver, Nokia’s Sports Tracker application will display importants stats in real time and also log them for later uploading to Nokia’s Sports Tracker support site for review and perhaps sharing with team mates or a trainer. With the GPS data you can see an overlay of your route on a map.

Mikko Rieger on the N79 Active

Nokia’s Sports Tracker is a GPS enabled activity tracker software package that runs on Nokia smartphones. The software recently won the Best Mobile Internet Service award in GSMA Global Mobile Awards 2009. It has improved even further since than with its first significant update being issued in March. Sports Tracker is compatible with all Nokia devices based on S60 3rd Edition.

While users are training, Nokia’s Sports Tracker provides immediate performance feedback such as speed, distance and time and automatically stores the data in a training diary. At Nokia’s Sports Tracker support site users can share their workouts and routes. It’s a particularly useful tool for collaborative training through allowing coaches to monitor performance and team members to compare their training regime against their team mates. However, there are privacy settings for your training data and you decide what to share.
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Nokia’s Enhanced Ovi Maps Will Help Shape the Future of Social Location
Nokia’s latest version of Ovi Maps is now a unique, dynamic and personalized canvas which can be synchronized and shared between the mobile handsets and the web. It’s a canvas for people to add their own location-based content. The shift to dynamic vector-graphic maps looks impressive.

Nokia has also released the Ovi Maps Player API for simplified embedding of Ovi Maps into compatible websites. Lonely Planet is one of the first companies to be working with the Ovi Maps Player API. Just imagine the benefits of sites like lonelyplanet.com or social networking sites including Ovi Maps personalized with their users’ collections of content and available for synchronization to subscribers compatible mobile devices – an end to bulky travel guides.
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The Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition has an identical specification to the recently reviewed Nokia N810 Portable Internet Tablet with the addition of WiMAX connectivity. The Nokia N810 WiMAX edition is available in the US only. Outwardly there are cosmetic changes from light gray to black and there is a bulge in the back of the case to accommodate the WiMAX module.

WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is a new wireless Internet technology for providing broadband speed connections over large areas. You no longer need to find a hotspot.
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The Nokia N810 Internet Tablet was introduced by Nokia at the recent Web 2.0 2007 Summit and already it has been named as one of Wired’s Top Ten Gadgets of the Year. The unit embraces the concept of a Internet connected GPS navigation device which will allow instant access to current maps, user-updating of maps, access to current points of interest (POI) databases and online location based services. Connected personal navigation devices (PND) such as the N810 are going to provide the platform for far more accurate demographic targeting of POI in the future.

The Nokia N810 Internet Tablet is a powerful ultra mobile communication (VOIP) and software utilities platform driven by a Texas Instruments OMAP 2420 processor running at the same fast 400MHz as its Samsung rival. For an ultra portable device, the Nokia N810 has an attractively large and useful 4.13 inch WVGA (800 x 480 pixels) color touch screen display. Other hardware features include a SiRF Star III GPS receiver, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, twin speakers, microphone and VGA camera.
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Nokia Wireless GPS Module LD-3W adds GPS navigation functionality to your mobile phone. The LD-3W connects wirelessly to a compatible phone, PC, or PDA using Bluetooth wireless technology. Nokia is moving rapidly into the location based services market and the LD-3W is compatible with a number of location-based applications and services.

The unit is powered by a SiRF Star III receiver chip (20 channels) well regarded for its market leading sensitivity enabling it to establish and maintain GPS satellite fixes even in poor signal reception areas. The module comes with a Nokia DC-4 mobile charger.
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Nokia’s N95 GPS enabled cell phone has won a 2007/2008 EISA (European Imaging and Sound Association) award for the European Media Phone category. The award was made by EISA’s convergence panel which would be expected as the Nokia N95 is a convergence of technology and features including; GPS navigation, Google Earth, 5 Megapixel camera, MPEG4 video capture, HSDPA data access, web browser, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, infrared port, USB interface, microSD slot, multiple audio format playback (MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA/M4A) and more.

To quote EISA “It’s no mere mobile phone and no mere status symbol. Pick up a Nokia N95 and you hold in your hands a state-of-the-art communication tool – the ideal way to remain permanently in touch and on track with the world that surrounds you.”

You may wish to read GPS Technology Reviews recent detailed review of the Nokia N95 GPS enabled mobile phone.

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Nokia are taking GPS capabilities seriously and have GPS enabled mobile phones such as the N95 and Nokia 6110. However, it is not as widely known that they have the Nokia 330, a dedicated car or personal navigation system (no phone capabilities). It’s a device loyal Nokia customers will be able to use in making use of the considerable investments Nokia is making in mapping and GPS location based services.

The Nokia 330 is a comparatively small and light (205 g) compared to other automotive GPS navigation devices. It’s turn by turn directions are driven by a Route 66 Navigate 7 software application with maps by NAVTEQ. As somewhat of a surprise to many the underlying operating system is Windows supplied by Microsoft.
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The Nokia 6110 Navigator follows in the footsteps of the first handset with built-in GPS navigation, the N95, launched earlier this year. Nokia now even has the Nokia 330, a dedicated navigation system (no phone capabilities). The Nokia 6110 Navigator combines both GPS (Global Positioning System) and AGPS (Assisted Global Positioning System) functionality with the flexibility of mobile connectivity.

The trend towards a more pervasive presence of GPS in the mobile device market is continuing. Telecom TV One has reported Nokia representative David Watkins as saying “We see GPS as a key trend in the future. It isn’t just turn-by-turn navigation. It’s much more…. He also emphasized the considerable strategic investment Nokia is making in mapping. Nokia can definitely see the future profit flow from GPS location based services and would be correct to assume that profit growth will shift to these mobile services from hardware.

Nokia see the launch of the Nokia 6110 as a big deal to the extent that its navigation capabilities will be tested as it accompanies actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman as they undertake the “Long Way Down” journey to Cape Town on BMW motorcycles. It is reminiscent of their 2004 Long Way Round motorbike journey from London to New York in 115 days.
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Augmentra, a specialist in gps navigation software for smartphones, has announced a new version of its ViewRanger off-road mapping, navigation and information software which now includes support for the Nokia N95 with integrated GPS. Nokia named ViewRanger Best Location-Aware Service & Application in Nokia’s S60 Global Challenge 2006. ViewRanger has been designed specifically for the off-road users and offers a unique combination of 2D and 3D mapping, GPS navigation, sports performance analysis, content sharing, and buddy tracking - see video below.

ViewRanger runs on the Symbian S60 smartphone platform, and transforms a Nokia or other S60 handsets into a full-featured trail navigation system. While further international coverage will be announced soon, the ViewRanger is currently available to use internationally with no base-maps, and with Ordnance Survey mapping of Great Britain.

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