YiBi's Life|Live Log

As part of my effort to improve my physical fitness (and appearance), I have been getting into more activities. I’m jogging more regularly and bought a new mountain bike. And being a geek, naturally I would want to visualise the efforts in a geeky manner. So now I’m plotting my routes and paths with Nokia N95. Problem is, carrying my N95 while jogging is not that ideal. It’s relatively too thick and heavy. But I guess I found my solution.

Nokia is pairing up with Polar to provide a package which includes the Polar Heart Rate Monitor. The heart rate monitor will feed data to the N79 via Bluetooth and all the information gets recorded into the Nokia Sports Tracker software on the phone. This is cool, and really what I have been planning to do.

Watch this advertisement for the N79 Active. I do find it abit too cheesy at the ending though, too geeky..hehe..

Nokia N79 Active Advertisement

There’s only 1 problem now. Where can I get this from in Singapore?

Today I put Shozu to some serious use. I went around taking pictures for some work. And then I ran into 1 big problem. My battery went low in less than 1 hour. I specifically disable the sending of pictures immediately after capture, to prevent the data connection from consuming the battery, but I forgot about the AGPS. AGPS requires data connection for a quick GPS fix, which is crucial for the N95 because without the AGPS, it takes forever to get a fix. I used GPS primary for driving, so power’s not a problem, it’s always plugged in for charging.

I guess I need to use my Bluetooth GPS (Holux M1000) next time, but it’s a dread to bring another device, especially when I’m on foot and cycling. Guess this is a problem. Perhaps it’s time to change my phone. :P Any other phones out there with better GPS? :)

I have recently start geotagging on my N95 using Shozu. Although it is quite interesting, I still find Shozu’s integration with the N95 slightly incomplete. In a quick try at a specific location, there are discrepancies in the results. Out of 4 pics, 1 of them still ended up not being tagged with the GPS coordinate in the exif. I haven’t really done much trouble shooting, but I think one of the possible reasons could be that GPS fix was lost at that point of time. I guess I got to do some research on GPS and Shozu to see why this occurred. Are there alternatives to Shozu? Or a better way to use Shozu?