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Sports,Tracked by Phone

Japanese mobile operator KDDI/AU gently stretches, jogs and cycles its way further into the service space with its Smart Sports service - use your mobile phone to track your exercise route, sync your music etc. For most people I'd anticipate it being an aspirational purchase and ends up being used by commuters to count walking-from-the-station-to-the-office calories - not that there's anything wrong with that, eh, Hayashi san.

Punters with an N-Series phone can download the Sports Tracker beta which is well regarded, not that I've personally made the time to use it in anger.

Update: and reader Tom points to the alpha of Zyked (video but not much yet in the way of content).

Photos from Shibuya station - the chap running above no-doubt overwhelmed with his new mobile and taking the posters all to heart.

Writing from Shibuya | March 17, 2008 | Permalink