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Nokia 5500 Sport

18 Jan, 2007, 3:58 pm IST | Aalaap Ghag | Smartphones

Sports
The phone has an accelerometer, a 3D sensor that allows the phone to track your physical activities like a pedometer. It lets you calculate steps taken, calories burnt and also has the mandatory stopwatch feature. It has a Quick Start mode, a diary and tests. It tracks and displays how far you’ve gone and at what speed, etc. The phone tracks the movements every time you run or so, and it vibrates at each movement. There’s also a bike test and a Cooper test to check how well you are doing. All this information is stored in the diary and can be used for statistical purposes on the PC via the free Nokia Sports Manager application.

The phone also speaks to you and gives you feedback if you tap the phone. More on this later.

I’m not so deep into fitness statistics - I just enjoy knowing the fact that walking up the stairs is good for me and that a brisk walk for half an hour should burn around 150 calories - so I didn’t really test out all these features in the phone. Maybe someone who gets out a little more often can post experiences in the comments below!

Tech
The phone is a tri-band GSM handset with GPRS and EDGE support. It has Bluetooth 2.0 (with faster EDR), Infrared and USB support. As mentioned before, the phone runs Series 60 3rd Edition, but the web browser isn’t as effective in showing the full web as the E50 or other phones.

The phone has a decent amount of built in memory at around 64, out of which around 10 is used up to store all your fitness statistics data. More memory can be added via a microSD card slot.

The pedometer in the phone is used not only for the sports functions, but also as an innovative method of controlling other applications on the phone. Take the music player for example. A triple-tap on the front switches to the music player if its running in the back, and triple-taps on the right or left side act as previous/next actions. This sensor also allows it to be used as a tilt sensor in games like the built-in Groove Labyrinth.

The 5500 also comes with multi-language text-to-speech capabilities and Push-To-Talk.

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Tags: Nokia , Series 60 , Sports , Smartphone

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