Nokia Step Counter beta launched: track how much you walk or run during the day
Guest blogger: Ole Kirkeby, Nokia Step Counter team
Nokia Step Counter does what it says on the tin: it counts the number of steps you take by analyzing how you ’shake’ your phone. Since most people have their phone with them everywhere they go, it is natural to use the accelerometer in an S60 product to track your daily activity.
Most commercial step counters require you to attach the measuring device to your belt. We have made an effort to ensure that Nokia Step Counter is accurate regardless of how you carry your phone. It should work fine if you have it in a pocket of your clothing, or a handbag you wear over your shoulder. The most challenging case we are aware of is when you have the phone in your hand while walking because then you ’shake’ it in a way that is not representative of how your body’s center of gravity move!
We are particularly interested in feedback on two topics. The first is the accuracy of the step counter. Can you fool it so that it picks up false steps, for example while you are driving a car with an unforgiving suspension, or can you make it ignore real steps, for example while you are shifting sideways along the shelves in your local supermarket? The second is the feature set of the application. Would you like to see more statistics in graphical format? Or perhaps a more profound summary which goes beyond the obvious steps/calories/distance numbers?
Last, but not least, we would like to hear from women! How do you carry your phone around with you during the day? If you don’t have any pockets in your clothing, or a belt, is it an inconvenience to use a mobile phone as a step counter?
- Ole
Known issues: (don’t worry, we’ll fix these)
- If you have the Activity Monitor from research.nokia.com on your phone, remove it before installing the Nokia Step Counter (added 12.05.2008)
- Height and weight must be entered in cm and kg regardless of whether Metric Units is chosen in Settings -> User
- If the scheduler is disabled and the Step Counter is run past midnight statistics might be incorrectly allocated to different days
That’s neat, nothing odd happened yet.
But why it isn’t included in Sports Tracker? Or is that the plan?
Comment by Fernando — May 9, 2008 @ 6:55 pm
I’ve installed it on my E60 and when i try to start it i get the message: “unable to start engine. exiting”
why????
Comment by yaron — May 9, 2008 @ 7:01 pm
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait never mind my last comment.
Comment by Fernando — May 9, 2008 @ 7:20 pm
Ole,
I have been looking to buy a pedometer somewhere this month but I bought N82 before that and I knew I won’t be sorry for the purchase. Now I have a great, intelligent pedometer on my belt whereever I go. There are few suggestions I want to make after my first 5 minutes testing the application.
1. Please allow the application to show the daily number of steps and whether I’ve met my goal on the front desktop page of the phone. This should be optional, not to anger purists or people who have enough ticker publishing apps.
2. Please add options to erase the total step counter history or the current history only. This is good in cases where I’d give the pedometer a try, test it whether its fool proof, but then I don’t want that test to mar my true step counting history.
3. Can’t you guys calculate an average step size based on weight and height so I have to actually measure it? I know you can’t have perfect data based on perfect body shape calculations, but it’d help people who aren’t gonna measure their step.
I hope this app gets few feature releases before you guys move on better application ideas. Thanks for the great work!
Comment by Apostol Apostolov — May 9, 2008 @ 7:30 pm
@ Yaron
The step counter is for the Nokia N95, N95 8GB, and N82 only. These have the built in accelerometer. I’m not sure if your Nokia has one of those…
Comment by Solitaire — May 9, 2008 @ 8:11 pm
Is this a new version of “Activity Monitor?” Does it have the same feature set?
Comment by Jeremy — May 9, 2008 @ 8:57 pm
Isn’t it the same like Activity Monitor???
Comment by Oli — May 9, 2008 @ 9:07 pm
I have Activity Monitor installed, v 0.11 and when try to install Step Counter, I have an error. “Update Error”
Comment by Fedelosa — May 9, 2008 @ 9:12 pm
It is the same as Activity Monitor, I can’t understand why can’t update it. I uninstall Activity Monitor and the installation of Step Counter was OK.
Sorry for my english.
Comment by Fedelosa — May 9, 2008 @ 9:17 pm
@ Jeremy, Oli and Fedelosa - the Nokia Step Counter is indeed a new version of the Activity Monitor that was published on research.nokia.com in December 2007. You need to remove the Activity Monitor before installing the Step Counter (you won’t loose your workouts, they are read by the new version). This problem will soon be listed in Known Issues on the main page but I forgot to do it at the launch this afternoon. My mistake, sorry.
@ Apostol
1. We wanted to show some status data in the main screen but the Symbian OS does not allow the application to write there. The restriction is most likely intended to prevent applications to ‘fight for attention’
2. You can delete individual workouts by selecting a workout from the Diary, then go to Options -> Individual workouts, highlight the one you want, then select Options -> Delete
3. Step length: go to Settings -> User and enter your Height (in cm) and Weight (in kg), and a default Step Length is calculated for you. You can override it and enter your own value if you want. The Step Length is for moderate pace. The algorithm actually adjusts your step length according to the step rate, so if you walk fast, or run, the estimated distance and energy expenditure are updated accordingly
Comment by Ole Kirkeby — May 9, 2008 @ 9:34 pm
I just installed it on my N82, and am now counting my steps as I write this via my wireless keyboard. It’s also compatible with Symbian screen readers if one opts to use the “individual workouts” option as the graphs themselves aren’t readable.
Comment by Amir — May 9, 2008 @ 9:40 pm
Will this work on N78?
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Why don’t you integrate this to Sports Tracker ? Why 2 different products ?
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@Ludo — my guess as to the reason why this product is separate from Sports Tracker is that you need an accelerometer to run Step Counter and not all of the models that can run Sports Tracker have the accelerometer built-in.
Comment by Ted — May 10, 2008 @ 2:33 am
@ Ole
This is really bad restriction on Symbian OS. I think people should ultimately decide whether they want applications to show information on desktop or not. This is one reason why Android OS is going to kick Nokia’s ass, but then again competition is good and we’ll see more development on the very stale condition of Symbian.
Just my rant here, I know people will disagree.
Comment by Апостол Апостолов — May 10, 2008 @ 10:57 am
Really impressed… great stuff… would love to see more apps taking advantage of the accelerometer like this.
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Some more suggestions to Ole about this great application:
1. Sound notification. I want to know how many steps I have made and I want to know when I reach my goal, but I do not want to be constantly looking at the screen of my phone. Implement simple sound/notification when the user makes each X steps (where X is default 1000, but can be modified in options). Also, implement an option to have sound notification only when wearing a headset (wired or bluetooth) in order not to attract unwanted attention. Sounds can be either internal, voice synthesis (”You have made 5000 steps so far. Keep walking”) or chosen by the user. I prefer the second method, but I think the third would be easiest to code.
2. Intensity Mode. In order to lose weight and burn fat, a user must burn around 300 kcal or spend about 30-40 mins using intense activity - power walking (High Intensity) or running (Intense Intensity). Step Counter can help people do this activity with encouraging and monitoring fat-burning walking/running in Intensity mode. Intensity Mode is a mode where the phone constantly encourages the user to keep walking faster or to slow down in order to remain in an intensity group of his choice (Slow/Moderate/High/Intense). The program checks whether the last 5 (or whatever period you are using) minutes are in the required intensity window and notifies the user using sound (see 1) to walk faster or to slow down. Intensity mode can have optional timer - when the user-set time’s up, the application leaves Intensity Mode and notifies the user - or calories counter - once Intensity Mode starts, the application monitors all burned calories until they reach the required amount, at which point the application Intensity Mode. You can rename Intensity Mode into Fitness Mode, which is more appropriate.
3. Email to a friend or yourself or upload daily/weekly/monthly/total report in XML. It would be nice to have the results imported in a dedicated social network/social network application for Facebook/MySpace to allow sharing data. It would serve as a great viral advertising of Nokia accelerometer phones among the sports-aware active consumer base.
Comment by Apostol Apostolov — May 11, 2008 @ 5:18 pm
First off, great app and it actually helped me realise I was not getting enough ’steps’ in a day due to sitting a a desk all day.
As for can it be fooled, yes. I noticed it recording steps in my car when ever I went over a speed bump.
As for the discussion above about data on the main screen, could it not show data as a standby app like wifi/cal/etc?
Comment by Darren — May 12, 2008 @ 11:00 am
Many apps I have used, like Share Online, Ultimate Voice Recorder and MobiGenie, manage to show data on the front page of the phont. I do not understand why there’s limitation for Steps Counter.
I would like to ask Ole something: can we believe the calorie count of Step Counter? Does it take in account the intensity of the walking or it just multiplies each step nominal to the number of steps?
More feature requests:
Few additional views for the Step Counter main view. With Left/Right the user can switch from the standard step counter screen to alternative views showing additional data such as speed of walking, number of steps in reverse count (how many more to do), etc.
Comment by Апостол Апостолов — May 12, 2008 @ 12:08 pm
Review so far…
Been using it over the weekend. So far I’ve spotted no bugs.
Next test is to run the step counter with the Sports tracker side by side. First to see if they both run together and to see if the distances match up over my journey. So I can check to see if my step length is correct…
I agree with a few of the posters that the step counter should be avalible in the Sports tracker. I’m not a programmer, but could the install not detect if there is the accelerometer in the device and then install / not install the step counter accordingly?
At worst there could be 2 versions 1 with the step counter for Accelerometer equipped phones and one without.
Comment by Solitaire — May 12, 2008 @ 4:34 pm
Ok Update..
you can run Sports Tracker + Step counter with no problems
Sports Tracker’s step count was 8166 while Step Counters count was 9179
There’s a 1013 difference probably due to either being inside a supermarket while they were running.. But it’s close.
also running Sports Tracker + Step counter + Music Player causes the phone to freeze after 13mins. I had to remove the battery to turn it off. Note MP3 playback had static bursts every 2 seconds or so only happened when all 3 were running…
my walk:
http://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/workoutdetail/index.do?id=182460
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Great to see some discussion here. I have divided my post into three parts according to topics.
1. STEP COUNTER VERSUS SPORTS TRACKER
- Why two separate applications? Practicalities aside, the Step Counter is not intended for the same user group as the Sports Tracker. The sports crowd is prepared to make a big effort to record their exercise as well as finding new gear that can help them improve their performance. With the Step Counter we want to reach a much larger group of people who, for whatever reasons, are not prepared to make such an effort. Let me ask you this: why are YOU reading this blog? What does a step counter mean to you? Do you want to improve your health through moderate exercise or are you a technology addict?
- Step count discrepancies. The algorithm in the Step Counter is slightly more sensitive than the one in the Sports Tracker, and that is why you don’t get the same results (thanks to Solitaire for reporting some numbers). As mentioned above the use cases are different. You wouldn’t use the Sports Tracker to record a trip to your local supermarket but the Step Counter is suitable for that.
2. NOTIFICATIONS FOR THE USER
- Sound. Yes, you can use sound to indicate how well you are doing during the day (suggestion by Apostol). For example, you can play some sort of triumphant tune for every 1000 steps. Personally, however, I would probably be more in favour of ‘nagging’ the user so that if you haven’t moved for, say, two hours you will hear a nasty beep that tells you to get out of your chair and walk around for a couple of minutes. We are treading a fine line here, though, because you could easily end up making this the most annoying feature ever.
- Main screen. This is slightly off-topic but anyway, it is of course possible for a phone manufacturerto put anything they want on the main screen. My point is that different applications have different priviliges, and if you make a downloadable application for research purposes, like our Step Counter, you are not automatically given priviliges to write to the main screen. If your application is shipped with the phone it can do absolutely anything but that is not the case here.
- Sharing of data (also from Apostol). Lots and lots of opportunities here. Just wait.
3. FEATURE SET
Plenty of good suggestions have been put forward on this blog but let me again state our basic belief: the Step Counter MUST be a simple application that is easy to set up, use, and understand, otherwise we are going to put off the majority of the people we are trying to reach. We are open to all suggestions but please realise we need to be very selective about which new features to implement.
Comment by Ole Kirkeby — May 13, 2008 @ 5:40 pm
I’m loving the app so far - couple things I’ve noticed.
The display doesn’t refresh when the keys are locked on my N95-4 while leaving the app running. I can also definitely tell that the step counter seems to count double when I’m holding it and walking. Otherwise, I’m quite impressed! Great app so far!
Comment by Jon — May 13, 2008 @ 11:59 pm
It looks like battery life is pretty seriously affected on my N95-3. The standby current is almost twice what it is without the application running. Have you considered powering down the accelerometer (and waking it for 1 second in 4 or so) if motion hasn’t been detected in a while?
Comment by Matthias Granberry — May 14, 2008 @ 10:30 am
Ole,
I think nagging the user to get out of the chair and walk around a little is just not practical. What if I am in a business meeting or I am taking a quick nap at home, or I am playing World of Warcraft (LOL, okay, you get the drift)? Sometimes we cannot be bothered to stand up and walk, and we don’t really benefit from walking a little all the day. People who are forced to turn ff step tracking in order to not be nagged will be the people who will eventually remove your application. I am still in big favor of sound notification and voice synthesis, and I am little sad that Fitness/Intensity Mode won’t find place in the Step Counter, but perhaps it’s better suited for Sport Tracker.
Comment by Апостол Апостолов — May 14, 2008 @ 12:17 pm
I agree with the nagging aspect..
But would it be possible to have something like having music played that match your walking / running pace?
I know that the Nokia media player had an option to calculate the b.p.m. could something like that be tied into either the sports tracker of the step counter? set it to play a random song from your library that closely matches your pace?..
just an idea…
Comment by Solitaire — May 14, 2008 @ 7:56 pm
Been using the application for a week and loving it! Only one bug I have so far managed to find though… using a Nokia N95-1 when you enter settings for the application auto start/stop - say, you enter a stop time of 22:00 as I have then the application seems to crash at that time. No data is lost so it’s no real problem and it auto starts again at 07:00 (as I have set to do) but it’s annoying to hear the error tone and message coming from your phone.
Comment by Neil Boothman — May 20, 2008 @ 3:03 pm
hi guys
I’ve been using the app on my N95 (with firmware recently updated to the latest version) and noticed that the battery drains faster during the day. is this supposed to happen?
regards
Comment by henrique — May 20, 2008 @ 4:48 pm
BUG REPORT (I think) AND Question …
… it seems that the timer does not keep accurate time — ESPECIALLY when the handset is locked (slider closed). FYI I use the N95-4 (NAM 8 Gb)
On a treadmill for 60 minutes, Step Tracker reported total time as 51 minutes.
QUESTION: Although I assume you use cm, how do you measure “stride”? Using short walking steps, it seems I have to calibrate the stride rate in Settings at 75 cm.
FYI as a benchmark I use a Nike+ iPod Sport Kit, calibrated to GPS readings from the US Track and Field Association.
Comment by Breeze — May 22, 2008 @ 12:29 am
@jon — display refresh
Strange things happen when the display updates. It is entirely beyond our control. And, yes, if you hold the phone in your hand while walking the step count might not be accurate. You say you get too many steps but we usually find that steps are missed. Perhaps we walk like penguins around here. What is your walking style?
@Matthias, henrique — power consumption
Having the accelerometer always on uses extra power. However, if our application is run at a lower level, which is possible if it is shipped with the phone, we can use hardware interrupts to wake up the algorithm only when it is required to do its thing. Unfortunately, the high-level implementation in the current version of the Step Counter has to run continuously, and the best we can do is to let the scheduler shut off the processing during the night.
@Solitaire — music
A lot of user studies have been done on matching steprate to bpm (beats per minute) in music. The bottom line is that people get annoyed if you force them to sync to a certain tempo (it is like a military march) but even so some types of music are more motivating than others. ‘Eye of the tiger’ is an all-time favourite of exercisers but in addition to picking a high-energy tune it is an advantage if you get the tempo roughly right.
@Апостол — nagging the user
If you are in a meeting you most likely have selected the profile ‘Meeting’ or ‘Silent’ so it would be easy to reset the ‘nagging counter’ under those conditions. Having said that, I think the logic behind a ‘nagging timer’ is non-trivial, and it would take some trial-and-error experiments to make it work well in practice.
@Neil Boothman — crash when application shuts down
That is news, and very bad news, to us. What is your firmware version? Do you have anything else running in the background on your phone?
@Breeze — Step time underestimated
More bad news. The step counter should not miss steps when you are running. How do you wear your phone on the treadmill?
Comment by Ole Kirkeby — May 22, 2008 @ 10:08 pm
You’re right, it does count fewer steps when you’re holding it. What threw me off was that it doesn’t always show each step (due to how it refreshes), so it looks like it skips quickly by two or three. When I counted in my head while walking, it was fairly accurate in my pocket, and it counted fewer when in my hand. Just seeing those numbers jump by quickly made me think it was counting more.
Comment by Jon — May 22, 2008 @ 11:26 pm
I was thinking to make a similar app to step counter in Python.
When I’m walking I use to be on the street, so I would like to change my profile automatically from normal to very loud, and hear incoming calls easily.
I think it could be great to use the ambient light sensor on the phone to detect if the device is inside the pocket or a handbag, to improve the situation detection.
Comment by Oscar B — May 23, 2008 @ 12:51 am
Hi,
Your software registers step counts only, correct?
But can this embedded 3D sensor works similar accelerometers in sport wrist monitors with speed/distance sensors (e.g. Suunto FootPod or Polar S1/S3).
Actually, these accelerometers measure accelerations (gets an integral of they to calculates speed) 1000 times per second + define vector of move direction. And calculates speed of foot (these sensors are attached on lace of shoe) based on trajectory of foot of runner.
If creating of similar processing data from nokia 3d sensor is possible, in any case - attaching the phone on shoe is absurdity. But actually, in one of running computer I see this move-measuring sensor is combined with heartrate sensor and works correctly there too - it means that accelerometer is placed on the chest, that is more potentially realistic place for phone.
Thus, my question is - can 3D sensor in Nokia phones defines acceleration and direction of movement for more exact measuring of distance and speed?
Rgds,
Ernst
Comment by Ernst — May 24, 2008 @ 7:55 pm
Ole:
The problem does not SEEM to be “missed steps”, but the clock not recording time properly.
On the same treadmill workout, the Nike+ iPod Sport Kit registered a workout time of 60 minutes, 1 second.
The Nokia Step Counter registered a workout of ONLY 51 minutes. NOT registering the proper time WILL result in incorrect page and average speed.
FYI I have Step Counter running in the FOREgroud … but the keypad is locked (slider of N95-4 is shut).
On a treadmill, I wear the N95-4 in my right fromt pants pocket of a pair of track pants, screen face down against the thigh. Also be aware that I WALK, not run.
While I know that missed steps is important, you must remember that time is an ABSOLUTE measurement. To lose NINE minutes out of a given hour doesn’t make sense. Time passes regardless!
Comment by Breeze — May 25, 2008 @ 10:53 pm
Its good but there is problem:
when I use car or taxi during a day it include in my step.
that mean is I walk 500 step but program show 500+5000
is there a way to ixclude it.
for example it can auto stop when step rate is more than 100 per min.
Comment by Behnam — May 30, 2008 @ 8:33 pm
I love it. I simply love it. It is very accurate and useful. It’s want I wanted to have since I was 10.
BUT. Yes, there is a but.
I upgraded to newest firmware on Wednesday (N95-3 now with 20.2.011) and had to reinstall step counter. When the N95 restarted the first time it asked for the time and I entered 2:30AM instead of 2:30PM. That mistake seemed to make NSC a bit crazy. I corrected the time later and lost that day’s activity. Later, I reinstall step Counter.
Now it’s not autostarting, and yesterday’s count was added to thursday’s, so I “walked” 10.000 steps on TH and about 10 steps yesterday. And sometimes it simply dissappear, i think it’s crashing as one day I found a message mentioning something about a step counter crash. I just re-installed but the problem seems to be still present. I wonder if there is a way to make a “clean” install, I don’t mind losing these past day’s count.
Also, I noticed that before new firmware the histogram was activity (from sparse to intense) vs time of day. Now it seems to be activity vs exercise time, since yesterday’s has more than 40:00 … but it could be that it recorded that day as a 40 hrs day too, I’m not sure.
I hope you can understand better what happened here
As you can see, I need some help here.
Comment by Patton — June 1, 2008 @ 1:06 am
I use the step counter on my N82, and i have noticed that the time is not accurate when I lock the keypad from within the application, if I tab out to the homescreen during the workout and then tab back when done, the time seems to be correct. Also, i ran 5 km the other day, and the step counter calculated the distance as 7,95 km. I wear the phone on my upper arm in a Ipod jogging strap thingy, no other applications running in the background. I hope this information is useful for you. Thanks for a great app.
Comment by Cunni — June 3, 2008 @ 11:43 am
@Oscar B — context recognition
A phone such as the N95 can do an awful lot if you start to combine the information from the different sensors but it is out of the scope of our little application.
@Ernst — speed and distance from raw accelerometer data
In our step counter we calculate the distance and speed from detected steps, and as you point out it is in principle possible to obtain similar estimates by integrating the raw accelerometer data. However, this assumes a completely clean signal. In practice, the low-frequency noise blows up in the integrated signal, and even if we didn’t have the gravity component to struggle with I doubt you can make it work any better than the primitive method based on detected steps.
@Breeze — step time underestimated
The step time clock runs when steps are detected sufficiently often. If the step time is underestimated then the number of steps is also underestimated. My guess is that if you have your N95 in the right pocket of your tracksuit trousers then the phone moves with your right leg, and in that case we have the same problem as when you hold your phone in your hand while walking. The best advice I can give you is to try to carry the phone so that it moves in sync with your torso rather than one of your limbs.
@Behnam — rejecting false steps
The algorithm is deliberately made slightly oversensitive so that it doesn’t miss real steps. If you know that you are going to drive or cycle, then just before you start that activity go to the main screen and stop step counting. You then have to remember to start it again later, though, which is something I easily forget.
@Patton — timing information wrong
You have been bitten by the ’round midnight bug’ which appears to be a lot nastier than we thought. There are some things you can try. 1) Change something in your settings since this should overwrite the old information. 2) Delete the config.dat file from the StepCounter directory on the memory card (NOT in the phone memory). That makes the settings go back to default so you have to enter your personal data again. 3) Delete the most recent workouts by using the procedure I described in post 10 (@Apostol, 2) in this thread.
@Cunni — distance significantly overestimated
Have you entered your Height in User Settings? If yes, reduce the pre-calculated step length (last field). The step length assumes you are walking at a slow pace. The algorithm automatically increases the step length internally if you walk fast or start running.
Comment by Ole Kirkeby — June 3, 2008 @ 2:22 pm
Not sure if this is related to Step Counter but since turning off ‘autorun’ on step counter I seem to get ‘invalid access point’ messages 2-3 times a day. I’m running it on a N95 8GB, v20 firmware.
Comment by Ben — June 7, 2008 @ 11:45 am
I accidentaly renamed some DAT files but now sportstracker application doesn’t recongise them any more. Does somebody know how to rename them back (where to get the info it uses in the name from) or what can I do to retrieve information from the files.
G
Comment by adnroutar — June 10, 2008 @ 5:08 pm
How do I reset the count when I want to?
Comment by Ghazan — June 13, 2008 @ 6:10 pm
Will you make it work with N96?
It has accelerometer but I get the ‘unable to start engine’ error. Is some API different on S60 3.2?
Comment by amnipar — June 22, 2008 @ 1:37 pm
Hi!I haveinstalled step counter on my n95.but it does not work.should i turn on the accelerometer or something?
Comment by BENJAMIN — June 22, 2008 @ 5:03 pm
So, I’m into my 7th week of using Step Counter. A couple of feature requests/observations:
1) Can we have a memo field for each day and/or workout? It’d be nice if I could make a note about my activity for the day, etc. (Why didn’t I hit my goal today? Why so many steps today?)
2) Would it be possible to have a separate schedule for autostarting for weekend days? Or not have it start at all on weekends?
3) When using a certain theme on my N95-4 (Silver, by Taieb, available here: http://www.symbian-freeware.com/download-silver-leather-by-taieb.html), there’s a graphical glitch on the Diary view where moving between days will not clear the highlight on the day squares. It’s kinda hard to describe, but it’s obvious if you try it. Other themes don’t have this issue, so it may just be a bug w/ the theme.
Other than that, I’m still very happy with the app, and not only is it useful to me, but it’s a cool app to show off to my friends!
Comment by Jon — June 25, 2008 @ 10:27 pm
I am sure I saw a note that you can get step counter to automatically update wellness diary but I cannot find the link now, anyone know where the setup instructions are
Comment by mscomms — June 26, 2008 @ 6:04 pm
Hola,
I am working for a Non for profit Research Company that functions for the improvement of Navigation for the visually impaired and I have tried out your beta version of the Step counter and it totally blew me off. This software very efficiently in using the accelerometer as a pedometer as is very accurate in doing so .The “Step Counter” has a very high potential of being useful in the future.
But there are a few important suggestions that I want to make
1) Make the software’s display of the data accessible to talking softwares such as “Nuance Talks”. I tried the “Step counter” in my Nokia N82 and its text to speech system does not read out the data from the screen.
2) Could you make this software accessible the Nokia 6210 Navigator? {It is not out on the market yet, but I have got a prototype of the cell phone given by nokia for the purpose of accessibility research}
I would really appreciate it if you can look into these two matters
Comment by Heiko — June 27, 2008 @ 5:11 am
Nice application! I installed it and tried it for few days; it seems to work very well, it is full of nice features and easy to use. Yes, sometimes I noticed the fact that it can be “fooled”, but in general its behavior looks reliable enough to me.
I just have a concern: is that just my impression, or it affects quite much the energy consumption of the phone??! I realize that keeping an application contantly running in background affects for sure the duration of the battery, but this seems to drain it much faster than I expected…
Comment by Claudio — July 2, 2008 @ 4:24 pm
It makes my phone battery running out so quickly!!!!!!
Comment by jAi — July 3, 2008 @ 9:35 am