Microsoft is the most current technologies company to jump on to the fitness-monitoring bandwagon – or much more suitably, the treadmill – with the launch of its Bing Overall health & Fitness Windows Mobile phone app.
Launched as a beta by way of the company’s Windows Mobile phone app retailer, the app is not very prepared for mainstream consumption but. “This is a pre-release, Beta model of the application meant for Microsoft testing purposes only,” explains its listing.
“As a result, the application may possibly have limited functionality or have recognized issues. Do not download this application for public use while in Beta testing.” Needless to say, this is unlikely to put keen Windows Cellphone owners off downloading the app to see what it is about.
What is it about? A combination of fitness, health and nutrition-tracking characteristics. Fitbit meets RunKeeper meets MyFitnessPal, you could say, synchronising users’ data across their Windows eight units.
“Set your day-to-day calorie goal, record what you eat and get nutritional details for more than 300,000 meals. Pick from hundreds of workouts and workouts with step-by-stage guidelines, pictures and video. Use the GPS tracker to record your time, distance, tempo and calories burned although you walk, run, bike and do other activities. Enter signs to get information on feasible health problems with the Interactive Symptom Checker.”
Bing Well being & Fitness is the newest Microsoft app to be branded below its Bing search engine. It follows the launch earlier in 2014 of Bing Foods & Drink Beta and Bing Travel Beta, which were both launched as merchandise for testing as well. They join Bing Weather, Bing Sports activities, Bing Finance and Bing News on the keep.
Fitness is an location of extreme curiosity for a quantity of huge technological innovation businesses apart from Microsoft. Apple’s M7 processor was created for its iPhone 5s smartphone with simpler, much less battery-sapping activity monitoring in thoughts. The company’s prolonged-rumoured smartwatch product is expected to have an emphasis on fitness and overall health tracking also.
Google, also, is considered to be contemplating difficult about how to incorporate well being-monitoring attributes into its Android operating technique. In January, references to an “Android Fitness API” had been identified in the code for the latest model of the Android computer software.
Google has also been tipped to develop a smartwatch, right after obtaining startup Wimm Labs in 2012. Meanwhile, this month overall health-monitoring view maker Basis Science has been reportedly speaking to Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft about a prospective acquisition also.
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