Comments on ‘Samsung Adidas F110 miCoach personal trainer phone’

A nice idea... 

..sadly, without GPS this thing appears next to useless once you've used a Garmin Forerunner. You can get a 305 for a little over a ton nowadays.

Nothing like seeing your routes in Google Earth, along with speed and HR data overlaid in a on-map 3d graph detailing HR , speed and elevation at whatever point.

Once you've used that, this phone appears little more than a nice HR watch.

What? 

Joke

No scripted-motion bespectacled black dude in flourescent yellow lycra cycle shorts and wife-beater?

I DON'T WANT ONE WITHOUT MY HOMOEROTICISM!

Running 

There is no other training than running. If you want to get fit, you start to run. And when you run, you'll get fit. Or injured.

@Joe K 

I have been skeptical of such products. However your description of mapping a route with HR data has changed my mind. I don't know that I'd drop a ton for it but it is an excellent idea.

Looks Smart 

As an all in one device that looks impressive, the heart rate monitor etc is very good.... i wonder what it does if you get a call whilst running though :D

I agree it's not going to be up there with the Garmin products (though i think the 305 must add 30lbs to your wrist, it's a brick!!!), but by the looks of it it moves the game on a little from the Nike+ system.... it won't be quite as accurate without GPS (neither is the Nike+) but it's all one place.

Shame neither of them have bloody Mac software though. Grrrrrrrr

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