Nokia hooking up with Polar for fitness monitoring?
Filed under: Peripherals, Nokia
Nokia’s been pushing its exercise logging solution, Sports Tracker, for a while now — but compared to dedicated fitness computers from companies like Suunto, Garmin, and Polar, it’s not quite as useful since you can’t automatically record your heart rate. For serious health nuts, that’s a deal-breaker right there, but rumor has it that Nokia has now teamed up with Polar (another Finnish company, coincidentally) to deliver everything the average runner needs to start sending vital stats straight to their phones. It gets better: besides Bluetooth chest straps, we’re hearing there’ll be compatible cadence sensors (for bikers) and barometer / altimeters, too. The whole initiative is apparently in the final stages of development, so we wouldn’t be surprised to see it officially announced either at CES or MWC. Ugh, this means we no longer have an excuse not to get off our lazy asses and jog, doesn’t it?
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