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Whilst looking for replacement BT headphones...

May 9, 2008

Take headphones AND speakers with you into the train carriage? Not me, I just wear and go!

Yep, the above are headphones AND speakers. Oh, and look ma, no wires! The only thing that could make this combo any better would be GPS built-in to the top - best personal navigation ever! Would be ideal for Nokia Sports Tracker.

Now the important questions about the Jabra BT8030 speaker/headphones:

Do these sound any good as headphones?
Do these sound any good as speakers?
Is there a safety mechanism that prevents accidentally activating speakers whilst on head?
How long do the batteries last?
Do they have the stupid flashing lights that my previous two headsets have/had?
Are they heavy?
And exactly how stupid will I look wearing these? (I can handle 'a bit' and 'a little' but nothing more!)

I found these on Mobile Fun but they didn't have a price, on Google Product Seach US they're around $150/£75. There's a bit about them on Ubergizmo (from September)

I've walked a 1000 miles in a year!

Apr 8, 2008
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Thanks to Sports Tracker I know that I've walked at least a thousand miles in just over a year! There's been some running involved to but certainly not as fast as you can see here in the pic! There's been quite a few times I've been on my plates of meat and not used it, so I imagine you could add maybe even a couple of hundred to that!

...and I would walk 1000 miles

Free GPS activity app for Skypephone

Apr 6, 2008
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Not the catchiest of titles, I know! But anyway...

There's now a free rival to Nokia's also free, Sports Tracker. It's Wayfinder's er, Wayfinder Active! It works on more phones than Sports Tracker which is the underlying reason for this here post. Yes, that's right, it work's on the 3 Skypephone!

As I'm posting this on an N800, I'm gonna keep it short and sweet. I'll post an indepth look (well slightly indepth!) when I get a chance on my PC. There's a couple of pics in the gallery, if you want to peruse them in the meantime.

Nokia Activity Monitor

Mar 25, 2008
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Steppin' out

Whilst in New York I forgot to use a whole bunch of stuff I'd uploaded to the N95 8GB in the days before. One of the things I really meant to try out was Nokia's Activity Monitor. I figured it'd be a good way to keep check on how much, well, activity I was partaking in.

In the end I completely forgot I had it and never used it! A bit of a shame as I like keeping tabs on any exercise I do and Nokia's Sports Tracker (what I normally use to keep tabs) wasn't really working that well with the GPS.

Anyway, I went for a ~~run~~, er, walk yesterday and decided to give it a go. I'm not sure how accurate it was as the phone was in my pocket one minute and in my hand the next. I presume the application uses accelerometers to tell how many steps have been taken so possibly got a bit confused along the way.

I did have Sports Tracker running at the same time so I have some idea as to the distance I covered (although saying that, using the built-in GPS causes a few inaccurate readings ...more on that in another post!)

Wish I could bottle that energy

Sports Tracker concluded that I'd ~~run~~ walked 4.09 miles at an average speed of 4 mph and a maximum of 15.6 mph! Yeah, um, er, no. I can safely say I was not approaching speeds of anywhere near 15 mph! As laughable as that was the day before I believe it tracked me doing a maximum of 35 mph. If only I could walk that fast. Who would need a car?

Activity Monitor says I did 4.46 km which is 2.77 miles. Sports Tracker says just over 4 miles. Conclusion? Neither is entirely accurate but they're better than nothing. By that I mean I need all the help I can get to remain motivated to exercise. Having stats, and having stats that you can add to or beat gives me encouragement. Which reminds me, I better start using Nokia's Wellness Diary again...

Nokia - my health is in your hands.

Somewhere between Iceland and Ireland. Nokia Sports Tracker in flight.

Mar 22, 2008
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Whoa that's fast!

How long does a mile take in a jumbo?

This is a messy post as I can't figure out a decent way of formatting this many pictures in these shapes and with the text I'm about to write...

I previously gave the Nokia N95 8GB's built-in GPS a bit of a hard time. In New York, even in areas with few, if any, tall buildings it was an almost impossible task to get a fix. The phone just didn't seem up to it. I figured this was because I wasn't able to use A-GPS (for fear of expensive data costs) and the location of the receiver on the

Sports Tracker graph (Speed vs Distance)

phone (it's obscured if the slider

Sports Tracker graph (Altitude vs Distance)

covers the keypad.

My Holux Bluetooth GPS worked great though - so I just used that instead. For the last couple of days I couldn't use it though as it was, like my Eee and my glasses, M.I.A.! Not to worry, I knew where I was going by then and didn't have the crazy mish mash of streets in Lower Manhattan to worry about any more.

Enough of the waffle, here's the goods...

The N95 8GB getting a fix at nearly 600 miles per hour through a cabin window on a Delta Airlines jet flying between New York's Kennedy and London's Gatwick! Yeah it took a while to get a fix and yeah it kept losing it but hats off to the little box of wonders. My old Bluetooth GPS unit couldn't get a fix unless stationary. Walk at an average pace of between 2-3 mph and it just wouldn't lock on. At nearly 600 mph it'd stand no chance.

Delta JFK to LGW - Highest Point

Delta JFK to LGW - Fastest Point

Delta JFK to LGW - Lowest Point

It would've been great to have merged the last three pictures into one. Or, even better, having the option in Google Earth to open more than one info bubble at a time but, well, there you go!

Battery Park: Ironic that my N95 8GB's battery should die there...

Mar 17, 2008
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My (er, loaned) N95 8GB's battery conked out earlier and it just dawned on me where it happened... Battery Park in Lower Manhattan!

To be fair it did get a lot of use today. I used it for music and navigation from East 27th Street down to the World Financial Center's Winter Gardens. Once there I used the excellent free WiFi offered by The Downtown Alliance. Listened to a bit of internet radio, downloaded more satellite 'tiles' of the area with Nokia Maps and used Nokia Maps, Sports Tracker and Location Tagger all (fairly successfully) for the first time*

Oh and almost forgot, I took pictures (that's why I was using tagger!) and video. I should also point out that I used Bluetooth GPS to get here (with TomTom) as the built-in GPS just isn't suitable.

*I say first time but I really mean: first time that lasted longer than a couple of minutes.

24 hrs with an N95 8GB (well nearly... 22 hrs doesn't have the same ring)

Mar 8, 2008
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I now have in my possession the rather nice N95 8GB (cheers to the also rather nice Siobhan at WOM World for said ~~phone~~ device).

I'm now nearly 24 hours into my two week trial and it's been er, interesting. The phone is great, the screen is big and bright, nice and clear. Navigating the menus is lightening quick (at least compared to my N73) and it's a pleasure being able to have so many applications running at the same time without the phone slowing to a halt or shutting down a bunch of them. I could go on, and will, later.

There are some bad points though and these include the frustrating and confusing variety of download sources on the device. Having everything available from one place might be a bit easier. Getting Nokia Internet Radio was unbelievably difficult and will be the subject of a future post. And, Nokia Sports Tracker kept crashing yesterday for no apparent reason.