Nokia Gets Health Conscious

For the health conscious mobile user, Nokia has decided to ‘Step’ up and join the other mobile manufacturers like Sony Ericsson and develop an application for the regular jogger/walker. The Nokia Activity Monitor is designed to display charts and statistics, in real-time, about your movements while walking or running. It’s currently applicable only with the N95 and N95 8GB.

What this application does is count the number of steps the user takes and then determines the distance covered and the energy spent. The application also stores a summary of your workouts for comparison. The steps are detected by analyzing the output from the accelerometer in a S60 smart phone. What Nokia recommends, to avoid registering false steps, is to have your mobile device either strapped to your belt or in your pocket. Preferably not in your bag or purse.

Your mobile device must have enough storage either in your device or a memory card. On the down side the Activity Monitor does make good use of the mobile’s battery so you will have to keep tabs on your battery meter.

More information and the application itself can be downloaded from here.