Heart Rate Monitoring

A conjunction of mobile phone (with mp3-player and good camera), gps device and decent hear rate monitoring system has yet to be seen. Currently the only one available is NOKIA N79 ACTIVE EDITION. With that edition, Nokia teamed up with the pioneers of heart rate monitor technology, Polar, to create a monitor that works in harmony with the Nokia N79 and the Nokia Sports Tracker application.

The Polar for Nokia transmitter straps to your chest and monitors your heart activity to a resolution of one millisecond. The information collected is continuously transmitted to the Nokia N79 and analyzed by the Nokia Sports Tracker application. The good thing about the strap is that it is lightweight, soft material that is very comfortable to use. You can keep track of the most important part of your body and integrate its progress into the rest of your training program, along with all the standard Nokia Sports Tracker metrics. N79 comes with a good music player and 5 mpx camera as well.

Nokia N79 Active promo video with some cool parkour:



The N79 Active Edition package comes with:

  • Nokia N79 with Nokia Sports Tracker installed
  • Polar for Nokia Bluetooth transmitter
  • Comfortable and ergonomically designed textile belt which is fully removable and machine washable
  • 3.5mm headphone socket to fit any standard set of headphones

Polar for Nokia Bluetooth transmitter

  • Battery type: CR 2025
  • Battery life: 150 hours
  • Operating temperature: 32 °F to 122 °F/ 0 °C to +50°C
  • Connector material: Polyamide
  • Strap material: 35% Polyester, 35% Polyamide, 30% Polyurethane

Nokia N79

Size

  • Dimensions: 110 x 49 x 15 mm
  • Weight: 97g

Power

  • BL-6F 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery
  • Talk time (maximum): - 5 h 30 min
  • Standby time (maximum): - 372 h


Memory

  • microSD memory card slot, hot swappable, max. 8 GB
  • Up to 50 MB internal dynamic memory


GPS and navigation

  • Integrated A-GPS
  • Nokia Maps application

Photography

  • 5 megapixel camera (2584 x 1938 pixels)
  • 20 x digital zoom

Video

  • Up to 640 x 480 pixels (VGA) and up to 30fps
  • Up to 8 x digital video zoom

Music and audio playback

  • Nokia Nseries digital music
  • 3D sound effect stereo speakers


Sony Ericsson offers their own tracker software with phones such us C902.

Here's a video explaining how that works: