Archive for May, 2010
The Latest Reason I Love My Eris
For those of you who don’t know, I got a Droid Eris at the end of last year. One of the reasons I bought it instead of its big brother the Droid was because I heard via the interwebs that there was going to be an upgrade to the Eris’ operating system. Recently that rumor became a reality and my phone’s OS is now the latest and the greatest.
One of the apps that is available for download with this operating system is WorkSmart Labs’ CardioTrainer. If you work out and want to track your workouts, distances traveled, calories burned, etc. this is a great app! It uses the Droid’s GPS capabilities to track where you walk or jog if you’re outside and if you’re on a treadmill or elliptical trainer, it will use the motion sensing technology to track your effort.
One of the coolest parts of the app for me, though, is the integration with the Droid’s music player. You can tell CardioTrainer which playlist from the muisc player to use while you work out. I’m trying to get up to jogging a 5K and using DJ Beatsmith’s PodRunner Intervals podcast. Each one of the 10 podcasts is supposed to be used for a week. I set up a playlist with the current poscast and then follow the cues.
It’s a great app and I look forward to using it more.
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