Helsinki, Finland 1.11.2011
The millions strong Sports Tracker community expands to Windows Phone
The Nokia-born and now startup-based hit app Sports Tracker will launch on Windows Phone in November.
The much-anticipated Windows Phone version of Sports Tracker comes with the category-leading tracking features familiar from the Symbian, Android and iPhone versions. In addition to tracking the app comes with a comprehensive training diary, ability to share workouts to Facebook, Twitter and the Sports Tracker online community as well as cloud backup of tracked activities to sports-tracker.com.
"We are extremely thrilled to bring Sports Tracker to Windows Phone. We see Windows as a very exciting platform especially now with the advent of Nokia's amazing new Lumia -series of Windows Phone devices." says Mr. Ykä Huhtala, CTO and one of the founders of Sports Tracker.
App features
· Full tracking features as in the award-winning Symbian app and iPhone / Android
◦ Distance
◦ Duration
◦ Speed
◦ Average speed and pace
◦ Max speed
◦ Energy spent (kCal)
• Training Diary for workout data analysis
• Diary sync to sports-tracker.com service for further analysis
• Sharing of workouts to Facebook, Twitter and the Sports Tracker community
Sports Tracker for Windows Phone will launch in November 2011.
Download screenshots
> Sports Tracker on Windows Phone (ZIP / 2.2Mb)
Sports Tracker now available for Nokia N9
To further celebrate "Nokia week" Sports Tracker for Nokia N9 is now available as a free download from the Nokia Store. The app comes with the familiar great tracking features and support for the new Sports Tracker Bluetooth Heart Rate Monitor enabling you to get more out of your tracked workouts.
App features
· Full tracking features as in the award-winning Symbian app and iPhone / Android
◦ Distance
◦ Duration
◦ Speed
◦ Average speed and pace
◦ Max speed
◦ Energy spent (kCal)
◦ Training Diary for workout data analysis
◦ Diary sync to sports-tracker.com service for further analysis
• Sharing of workouts to Facebook, Twitter and the Sports Tracker community
• Support for the Sports Tracker Bluetooth Heart Rate Monitor (available from shop.sports-tracker.com)
> Download Sports Tracker for Nokia N9
Download screenshots
> Sports Tracker on Nokia N9 (ZIP / 2.2Mb)
About Sports Tracker
Track and analyze your performance, share workoutdata and photos with your friends, and mostof all – get fit and stayhealthier.Whether cycling, running or walking, Sports Tracker makes training more social and fun and helps its users live healthier andhappier lives.
The Symbian version of Sports Tracker has dominated the download charts of Nokias’ Ovi Store and made a big splash when it launched on the iPhone and Android earlier this summer. It’s among the highest rated tracking apps on Android and iPhone and has been a TOP5 Health & Fitness app in more than 25 markets in the iPhone App Store. Apple also featured Sports Tracker as the #1 Health & Fitness app in their iPhone 4S launch.
Together with thefull-featured online service at www.sports-tracker.com – with detailed maps andan enhanced experience –and an active community of millions of users around the world in over 200 countries,Sports Tracker has been used to track more than 86 million training miles (140 million kilometers) in the past year alone.
Sports Tracker online service:
www.sports-tracker.com
Sports Tracker blo
www.sports-tracker.com/blog
About Sports Tracking Technologies Ltd
Our mission is to help peopleconnect through sports, train better and live healthier, happier lives. We do this by creating innovativetools for outdoor activity tracking and analyzing. Our products provide informative on-line training dataand the possibility to share workouts and experiences with other trackers across the globe.
The Sports Tracker mobile application was originally createdin 2004, when the founding team worked at Nokia Research Center. The founders hada vision of an easy and fun training application that would help people trainbetter and connectwith each other. The Nokia Sports Tracker Beta was launched in 2007 gathering a huge global following as the first application of it's kind to hit smart phones. The current companySports Tracking Technologies was founded in 2009 after a successful spin-off from Nokia.
The application is the brainchild of Ykä Huhtala, Jussi Kaasinen and Antti Sorvari, who together hold over 25years of experience from R&D, marketing and developing new mobile products and online services.
Media Contact
For more information, interview requests or a casual chat on all things Sports Tracker please contact:
Mr. Jussi Solja
+358 45 8830199
Skype: jussisolja