Apple and Nike surprised many last year when they teamed up to sell their products to the fitness freaks, the other big sportwear major’s like Adidas, Reebok and Puma couldn’t be far behind in this new race. Finally, after one long year, Korea based Samsung Electronics and the German sportwear maker Adidas have come out with their own challenger to Nike-Apple in the form of the ‘Samsung-Adidas miCoach handset’. Atleast on first glance, the phone looks worth the long wait. The very chic looking miCoach has a very sporty carbon fibre, fake though. The miCoach has a heart rate monitor and a stride sensor chip that can be clipped on to your Adidas trainers. That is not all, a motion sensor inside the miCoach will even vary the music tempo with your exercise tempo while the micoach logs your performance data.
I can’t imagine what super-quick techno beats will become with some vigorous exercising. The phone itself is a thin, at 14.5mm, slider which has Samsung and Adidas emblazoned prominently on the grippy front and back panels. It has all the normal features of a colour phone along with a 2 megapixel camera, 1 gb of internal memory and a 2 inch screen. Bluetooth and USB 2.0 provide connectivity. The colours in which the phone will be available range from a nice dark gray and tech silver to an obnoxious sweet pink and pink-red.
I really haven’t seen a pink-red in all my life. What is that? Fine, as most of the fitness crowd loves garish color, so maybe miCoach has just got it right. One more annoying feature is a voice that tells you to speed up or slow down and stuff like that. I, for one like my phone to shut up and listen to me rather than tell me what to do. Anyway, for all you fitness buffs out there, micoach will be available in Germany from the middle of march and other parts of Europe soon. The price though, is not out yet.
Via: PhoneMag, CellPhoneBeat
