Get Your Shorts On, Step Counter Will Handle The Rest
In my recent journey trying to get back in shape, after having neglected sports for a couple of months due to a hectic schedule, I wanted something that could motivate me, work by itself and give me some decent information regarding my performance. That’s why while chatting with a friend of mine, he mentioned using Nokia’s Step Counter and I immediately knew I had to try it.
So last week, I downloaded Step Counter, launched it on my N95 when I started my morning walk, moved it to the background, launched the music player and threw the N95 in my shorts’ pocket. That’s about it. I gave it the whole walk time to do its job, then when I was back home, I took it out of my pocket, stopped it and looked at what it had recorded. And to say I was astonished is an understatement.
Not only did it count my steps, but it also timed my walk and gave me an estimate of the distance I walked, the calories I burned, my average pace, and it even drew a couple of nice graphics showing me my activity and step evolution. Compared with my old simplistic look-at-the-watch-and-time-my-whole-walk method, Sports Tracker brings more information than I would’ve ever dreamed to have.
It has become basically invaluable to me in the last week. Suffering from a ligament inflammation in my left foot for over 2 years now (that seems like it’s not going away anytime soon), it is of major importance for me to not stop exercising, but also to know which pace I can go at without feeling too much pain. Step Counter has given me my motivation back, and allows me to monitor not only my exercise evolution, but also my foot pain evolution. I hope over the weeks I’ll notice that I picked up my pace but that my pain has diminished, I also hope one day I’ll be able to run for an hour again.
If you’re into walking or jogging, I definitely recommend giving Step Counter a go if you have an accelerometer capable handset. You won’t regret it.
Do you find your battery life has utterly disappeared since using it though?
I’m sure I was getting much better times from it before hand, either its stepcounter or the location tagger.
I would definitely give step counter a try! by the way, what are the main differences between step counter and sports tracker?
Do you think the application accurately counts your steps? I’m not sure if it does………. thoughts? I’m using a N95 as well.
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@Chirantan
The Step Counter is a slimmed down version of Sports Tracker as the latter have developed into a more advanced piece of software where you can now send video and so on.
Step Counter is just simply a step counter and nothing more.
Chris,
i haven’t found battery life to be a SERIOUS issue with Step Counter, so I would blame Location Tagger more. The other day, I woke up, surfed on WiFi for about 30 mins, then went for an 1h15min walk during which i had Step Counter AND the Music player on all the time, and I came home with 6 bars of battery, which is pretty decent.
RajenNZ,
Yep I actually think it does. I have tested it many times on my N95, starting it, walking a certain number of steps which I count, then stopping and looking. Try to do that. The error is very small.
Cheung Yuen Wong,
I strongly disagree with you. Step Counter is a different application from Sports Tracker. The first one is more focused on the activity itself, and offers calorie counting which is nowhere on Sports Tracker, as well as Activity and Step Count graphs. Sports Tracker is more focused on the Tracker part, with GPS positioning, media sharing,… and offers more information, but some that might not be very useful if you’re just into sports for sports.
I have to agree with you there about the tracking part on the Sports Tracker.
I was maybe too hasty when I commented about the Nokia Step Counter being “a step counter and nothing more”.
Isn’t the latter derived from the Activity Monitor from Nokia?
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I would go as far as say that Step Counter IS Activity Monitor. I used Activity Monitor for a few days but didn’t totally explore every function. When I uninstalled it and added Step Counter, it seemed to me much like the same.
I’ve been using sports tracker for a couple of weeks now, and i’ve found it more useful than just tracking me as it also gives me accurate read-outs of speed and pace, and hopefully in the future it’ll allow me to re-find routes i happen on accidentally.
as for battery life, the N95 hasn’t exactly got the best battery anyway, and in my experience with sports tracker it uses the battery up no more than any other app
hi,
does nokia step counter beta version is good or sports tracker?
what is a difference between this 2 software.
pls some one guide it.