Welcome to CardioTrainer by WorkSmart Labs! CardioTrainer is a next-generation mobile fitness application that can be your virtual training partner for running, biking, hiking, skiing or just about any outdoor activity you can imagine.

Just install CardioTrainer on your Android phone, start it, get outside and go! CardioTrainer will use GPS to show your real-time position on a map, and also save your exact route, so you can review it later in your Track History.

Additionally, CardioTrainer can upload your run to our servers, so that you can access it from anywhere in the world. We don't require any registration or account setup, and the tracks are uploaded completely anonymously with an automatically generated personal access code that you can find in the Settings menu on your phone.

CardioTrainer also features Facebook integration, so if you are a Facebook user, simply select "Install Facebook App" from the homepage, and your uploaded tracks will be automatically shown to your friends on Facebook. Commit to a goal, and let your friends and family track your training progress and encourage you to keep going!

CardioTrainer is currently in beta, and we are working hard to fix any bugs and add many more features.

Questions? Comments? Bug reports? We would love to hear from you.
E-mail us at about@worksmartlabs.com

The rare good-looking apps in Droid Marketplace. I knew about this from http://kommein.com/cardiotrainer-for-droid-geeky-fitness/. I want to try it but the thing is it needs data plan. I'm not sure if do I really need to pay just to record my exercise. But let me see.

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It's just now I learn about Picasaweb's upgrade pricing. I have a flickr pro at around $20/year. I know there's no price for the great community in flickr. But for my use, I believe I really do not need flickr since I'm really not into photography. I'm just a plain mommygraphy who needs storage for the pictures of kids who are clicked like every second.

What will it look like after 2010 is done? I see Nokia in the 35 to 40 percent market share range. RIM will grow to the 22 - 25 percent market share. Apple may hold onto about 15-18 percent share depending on how 'awesome' the next June 2010 version of their iPhone is. Samsung is likely to grow at least past the others with Bada to fourth place and will certainly eventually overtake the iPhone, but that I see happening more in an 18 month scale than this year. Still they will be a solid number 4. I'd put them around 10% give or take a few points.

HTC will be the biggest of the smaller players due in large part to Google's Nexus and its brand. It will help sell any HTCs. I would say HTC grows but to something like 6% or 7%. At worst they hold fifth place at about 5%. Toshiba is going to push abroad, expect them to battle HTC. LG is a dark horse, depending on if they go full steam suddenly into smartphones or are happy to do touch screen feature phones.

The other brands will be in the roughly 1 percent or less range including Motorola. SonyEricsson, Palm, some other Japanese makers, Google's own brand (double-counted in HTC above), and Dell. Should SonyEricsson do a PSP phone (most likely then as a smarpthone) that would give SE a big boost. And I'm pretty sure we'll see more PC makers rushing to a smartphone near you, like Lenovo, Acer, HP, Toshiba etc.

It will be a bloodbath in 2010 and we will be keeping score in the media often. The only thing I urge you to keep in mind - the US market is totally not symptomatic of the rest of the world. Only one in 12 phones sold in the world is in America, so don't think the biggest battlefield will be on those shores. No, the big battles at the high end of the price range will be in Western Europe and the low end of the smartphone battle will be in Asia. Those are the markets where this war will be won or lost. But it will be an interesting year in mobile.

My symbian Nokia E63 has turned 1 year. It may not have the aesthetic but it does the work. It is something I am very comfortable with. And, I'm sure to keep forever.

My iPhone-wannabe, ipod touch, also turned 1 year. It has all that feel-good, beautiful look. Hands-down to its usability design -- it really as smooth as Steve Jobs. But the smoothness of its touch technology can still not make up for a tactile 'keyboard.'

Then, this year, I experienced Nexus. Save for pandora, the rest of the apps I have tried are blahhh. Of course, maybe 2 years from now, some developers can make their apps right. But the best thing about it is its browser. You can play video within the browser. And, it is quite fast. But still, I don't fancy it much. Unless a mobile maker can make a QWERTY version of it (is there are a QWERTY handset using droid?), that I will be interested. I guess if you have experienced how an 'iphone' feels, it's hard to fall inlove with an android phone.

I fancy getting a RIM because I want to know what's the story behind it. But the good review of Samsung of the article makes me also think of trying the BADA OS. I always admire Samsung's design. I feel that google should have go for Samsung for producing the EVO instead of HTC. Samsung has way off better designs, though I never get to use one.

So RIM or BADA?

There were tons of so-called experts who claimed the smartphone app stores were earning tons of money last year. They were not. The world's most successful smartphone app store (there are over 30 of them already), ie Apple's iPhone App Store - earned about 715 Million dollars in calendar year 2009, of which Apple kept 215 million dollars, and paid out 500 million dollars to developers. This is not a significant money-making opportunity. Not now in 2010. Maybe in a few years down the line but not now. Just for contrast, the 'non-messsaging' mobile data 'services' revenues in 2009 were more than 100 Billion dollars. The real money is in mobile services, not in smartphone apps. As I have been saying for a long time, smartphone apps are a false promise now in mobile.

Of course, this can be flawed. The mobile app developers may not be indirectly earning from their apps but from the other projects they have where they earn more. But we can see clearly that with all the focus on mobile gadgets, it is the TelCos who earn the most from it. Since most mobile apps need data plan to work. =) iPhone, Android, China phone go through them.

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Interesting. Reminds me that there are others working on SMS-based apps from Mark's office:
@jjlumagbas -- expense tracker & @engwan -- google search.

Originally, John invited me to join him on his project to explore ways we could use communications technologies to the improve the marketing system for maize and soy bean farmers in western Cambodia. From our early workshops in Battambang, Cambodia, we identified poor communications as one of the key constraints to improving the marketing system. At that time I had been developing an interest in mobile communications, particularly the application of SMS, and was following closely the work of the Pinoy Internet Farmers project.

Wow, I'm happy to see Philippines mentioned. I really wish @tweetitow can get into other areas which have more 'value.'