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Tapping Your Smartphone to Stay Fit
Written by Patrick Nelson   
Thursday, 08 December 2011 06:00

Authors: Patrick Nelson

Tapping Your Smartphone to Stay Fit One of the most-used leisure-oriented apps on my Android smartphones has been Google's free My Tracks. The app brilliantly measures data related to hikes and bike rides via the GPS radio. It tracks distance, speed, time, elevation, grade and so on. Pressing "Start" when setting off, and remembering to press "Stop" when ending ultimately creates a library of pretty useless statistics that I can't stop collecting. The geek factor is probably somewhere near the postage stamp-collecting sphere. You can even get My Tracks to periodically announce data audibly -- and really annoy your companion.

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