Nokia 5500 Sport
A phone that can be your training buddy sounds like a great idea, and provided you don’t want to break any records the Nokia 5500 Sport could be handy. But if you get serious about your training, you’ll benefit from using far more sophisticated kit than this.
Nokia’s 5500 Sport might seem like a real oddity if you are not the sporty type. It has facilities for monitoring your sporting activity and you can even download some software for your PC that lets you analyse data gathered by the phone.
If you are a heavy-duty sports enthusiast you’ll definitely need to add a GPS unit if you want the 5500 Sport to track distance travelled during sporting activities properly, and even then the 5500 Sport might not meet your needs as it lacks things like a heart rate monitor, which would benefit those in serious training.
Design
The Nokia 5500 Sport is a small and tidy handset aimed at those who want to record and monitor their exercise but don’t fancy the idea of buying additional kit to do so.
To that end the handset is clad in a casing which makes it water, shock and dust resistant (we don’t suggest you go swimming while wearing it, but it should withstand the perspiration generated by activities like jogging).
The front part of the casing is made largely of rubber and the keys are built into this rather than being separate, presumably to keep dust as well as sweat out of the handset’s innards. The Call and End keys are not separate buttons, but are built into the styling of the phone — they look like small raised design features beneath each of the softmenu buttons.
Features
For this handset to work as a sports tool you need to use the provided belt clip and carry the Nokia 5500 around your waist. We found detaching it to make and answer voice calls a bind, preferring a pocket as the storage place for our phone.
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Posted on September 14th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Gps Navigator
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