by Jay Garrett on September 8, 2010
I quite liked the idea of the original Nike fitness app for the iPhone but soon discovered you needed to buy the special sports kit that included a small accelerometer attached or embedded in a shoe. The company even had a recommended Nike+ trainer!
If you were going to get the lot it started to add up.
The whole package could set you back a fair amount.
Now, Nike has launched a new iPhone and iPod touch app that will let you keep track of your running jaunts using GPS, rather than a separate sensor shoved on your foorwear.
Just download the Nike+ GPS app from iTunes for £1.19 and you’re ready for the off! It uses GPS and the devices accelerometer to visually map runs, as well as track your pace, distance, time and calories burned. Nice 
It’ll play nice on the iPhone 4 and 3GS, and the second, third and fourth generation iPod touch.
You can even use the app when you’re not moving about outside. When you’re covering your milage on a treadmill as the app records data even when the GPS isn’t working.
However, when the GPS is doing its thing you’ll be able to see your location and use the challenge feature which will push you on to better your performance logged on previous runs.
You also get some feedback from those in the know. Paula Radcliffe and Tour de France victor Lance Armstrong will tell you where you should focus and will also pop up when you beat specified goals or personal bests to give you that virtual high five
You can get all social with other joggers, runners, sprinters and sporty-types from around the planet via the Nike+ website as well as hooking up on Facebook and Twitter.
Are you happier paying £1.19 for the new Nike+ app or could you get by quite nicely thank you using the free RunKeeper app?
Personally this all sounds a bit too much like hard work. TAXI!!!
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by Jay Garrett on September 6, 2010
Here comes an iPhone update!
iOS 4.1 which will be the first major update to iOS 4 since the operating system’s release for the iPhone 4, 3GS and 3G, should be out this Wednesday according to word on the street.
Version 4.1 of the operating system coincides with the arrival of the new iPod touch, which will run on iOS 4.1.
People still rocking first-generation iPod touches wont be able to join in with the upgrade – same goes for the first-gen iPhone.
The biggest deal, I reckon, is that this update will bring the Game Center.
Game Center will let iPhone and Touch gamers challenge and play each other; it will also kinda ‘Genius’ other players that have similar skills to you for a fairly matched game. You will be able to share your scores to other players, and find out what games other people are playing.
When the update hits the iPhone 4 it will actually get improved photo and video capture – which I think is already pretty good. This includes the “high-dynamic-range” setting which grabs a bunch of images taken at different exposures and puts them together to offer a better shot. You lot into moving pictures will be empowered to upload 720p, high-definition video to YouTube and MobileMe.
Ping will also appear but, so far, I see little to be excited about. Perhaps having it on the Apple handhelds will change my feeling but, to be honest, I’m not holding out much hope.
We subjects of the United Kingdom won’t be able to rent TV shows straight from their iPhone or iPod touch. Stevie J needs to start chatting nicely with broadcasters around these isles.
OK, so ‘the street’ in this case is gadgety blog Engadget who managed to grab a screenshot of Apple’s UK site which slipped out the September 8 release date of iOS 4.1.
The thing is that’s now been removed.
I wonder if they spotted a small glitch with it, decided to post-pone it or perhaps they gave the wrong date in the first place.
Do you think that Game Center is going to smash the live services from Microsoft Xbox and the Sony PlayStation?
I quite liked the idea of the original Nike fitness app for the iPhone but soon discovered you needed to buy the special sports kit that included a small accelerometer attached or embedded in a shoe. The company even had a recommended Nike+ trainer!
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