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You also get summary data about the duration, traveling speed, and even elevation changes of your trip. I promise I was not staggering from side to side as I walked down Castro Street. Mountain View is no metropolis but walking near tallish buildings downtown did seem to throw it off a bit. ItвЂ™s fairly accurate, and you can even tell which side of the street I walked on most of the time.

HereвЂ™s my walk with my internet-famous firstborn:

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Multitasking is another advantage that Android has over the iPhone. You can put your phone in your pocket and forget about it while you hike or even surf the web and use other apps вЂ“ it will keep running in the background. Once you have it installed itвЂ™s just a matter of starting up and hitting the menu button and then Record Track.

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To use My Tracks youвЂ™ll need to download it for free from the Android Market. This is also an excuse to post more pictures of my cute kid on my supposedly technology-focused blog, since she came along for the walk. IвЂ™m not the first to write about it, and thereвЂ™s a pretty thorough review at AndroidGuys, but I thought IвЂ™d share my first experience. Google just released an app that makes the GPS really useful, called My Tracks. One of the main reasons I switched was because my older iPhone didnвЂ™t have a real GPS, and the cell-tower triangulation just didnвЂ™t cut it in many parts of the country. not bad.IвЂ™ve recently switched over from my iPhone to an HTC Dream phone running GoogleвЂ™s Android operating system, otherwise known as the G1. In the same vein although I checked pace rather than speed, no matter what I tried the verbal feedback (which worked quite well overall) would only give me speed and distance, never pace! Was a good test of my ability to convert say a 6mph (uphill) speed and 2.5 miles distance covered in 25 minutes to a 10 min/mile pace for that segment. 62 miles (or the metric 1K) and the voice even says for the last. BUT - what you really get is metric anyway! If you choose 1/2 mile the announcements come every. No choice by time (say every 2 minutes or 5 minutes). the only choice to have verbal feedback is every 1/2 mile or 1 mile or 2 miles etc. Sports Tracker shows its European roots in that even with the settings on Imperial (rather than Metric).

One thing I really like about My Tracks is the verbal feedback that can be set to announce ongoing results by time or by distance with many choices. Not without its (small) glitches however. Has the social network website where you can choose to upload your workouts for friends/everyone/only yourself to see them. Team then left Nokia and created a company around Sports Tracker. Sports Tracker measured my running distance correctly, kept my correct speed & pace per mile and never lost the Skyrocket's GPS signal.Д¬reated by a team from Nokia originally for Symbian OS. Kept the same settings I'd used (and which then failed with My Tracks & RunKeeper) as mentioned above. Sports Tracker worked, no problems at all! Given how new/hot the Skyrocket is, they may not even have any refurbs yet?Д¬lick to expand.Well. I'm waiting for a call from AT&T to see if they'll give me a replacement phone, but as it is 6 weeks old they may say it will be a refurb. My Tracks worked great on an Aria, Atrix and various Verizon Droid phones but on the SkyRocket it provides the correct overall time I've been running, draws the map of my route correctly but part-way through the run (and in different places) it suddenly jumps the distance run from say 1 mile to 3 miles or from 2 1/2 miles run to suddenly 5 miles run! Then it adjusts my pace from my normal 7-8 min per mile on the trail down to 5 min per mile with the new (false) distance covered!!! I've been running this same trail for over two years. But using MyTracks or RunKeeper (will try Sports Track this afternoon) generates crazy results. Maps finds my location quickly, GPS Status app finds satellites etc. I've done all the settings properly (I think) : All 3 items under My Location are set to 'on'.

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