The cellular phones industry has advanced allot in the past few years.
Starting with just a piece of portable parts, it had the ability to provide wireless communications.
SMS ( Short Messaging Service ) came after that which was very much like the E-Mail( Electronic Mail ), but much shorter.
Music players started being built into cell phones then along with MMS( MultiMedia Messaging Service ) facilities, internet browsing
capabilities and they went to the extent of pushing in Cameras into cell phones.
You can do just about anything with a modern cell phone today, just about anything.
However, Samsung has now accomplished it all!
Samsung is all set to launch its new Fitness Focused phone. It has been named the miCoach (F110), the
quad band slider handset boasts of an inbuilt dedicated fitness button that once connected to a step
counter and a heart rate monitor will give you detailed information about your heart beat, distance
covered and time spent, while you’re out on a jog. It does not end at that, apart from allowing you to
record the information for future reference and also send it to a computer, it can give you real time
updates through the headphones, simply by tapping the screen!
This phone has an inbuilt function of measuring and judging whether you’re running too fast or
too slow according to the fitness programme selected by you.
The miCoach is expected to have over 200 different training programmes, accessible via a fitness
website ranging from programmes to help you lose weight or to train you and help you practice for
running a marathon. It will have the ability to measure your running speed within 4 zones to best suit
your training according to information collected through an initial assessment run.
Racing ahead of the Nike - Apple iPod partnership, Samsung Mobile has gone in with Adidas for this
offering. Users will get a heart rate monitor and step counter (called a footpod), upon purchasing the
handset.
The miCoach also boasts of 1 GB Memory for storing your songs to be played when you’re out exercising.
Just as if this wasn’t enough, the 2 mega pixel camera can help you record your whole work out for you to
see later, and judge how good it was.
Supporting this cause, Samsung mobile will be launching a website dedicated to miCoach users to help
them plan their jogs, track their progress and maintain a permanent diary of their work outs by entering
information into their online account and updating it regularly.
The miCoach is expected to hit the markets later next month, it is difficult to wait that long, but
well, do we have a choice?
However, fitness freaks looking for a similar technology like that in the miCoach, without the “phone”
element, will be extremely disappointed. A representative of Samsung Mobile said that they did not have
any plans of releasing the miCoach system without the phone element, at least not in the near future.
