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Mount the Nokia N82 on your handlebars, and you've access to the Sportstracker features.

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5 out of 5 stars

"Free GPS cycling computer, navigation and training diary! "

By Neil Pedoe

The latest Nokia GPS ‘smartphones’ running the latest Symbian operating system – like the N82 pictured here – come ready loaded with Nokia Maps and Nokia Sportstracker software. The N82 even comes with a bar mount. Both can also be downloaded for free and run on older handsets with the relevant OS.

The Maps program turns your phone into a navigation device, with virtual 3D or line art mapping, and you can add voice navigation too. With its searchable destination and points of interest menus, it will greatly enhance any ride. It looks and works almost exactly like the Route 66 Mobile 8 software. 

One tip though: to avoid hefty download charges as you ride along, use Nokia’s free Maps Loader to transfer the relevant maps to your phone via your PC before you go.

The Nokia Sportstracker, which you can run at the same time as the Maps program, switching back and forth as you like, is a GPS enabled activity tracker. It records and displays all the usual bike computer data and more – speed, distance, time, altitude, course, grid reference, even route cycled.

You also get on-screen graphs showing speed versus time, speed versus distance, and altitude versus distance.

Lay the N82 phone on its side, and the display switches automatically to landscape format, which is great for the graphs.

Each ride is then stored in a calendar-based training diary on the phone, which can display daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or total training summaries for speed, distance, pace and time.

Hook your phone up to your PC, or upload data via your phone’s internet connection, and the program also links to the free Nokia Sports Tracker website.

You can create your own account here, store and share your cycle routes, and even let people track your progress live via the site while you’re out riding!

All we need to go with this now is a Bluetooth heart-rate monitor, cadence sensor and power-measuring hub, please.

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  • User review of Nokia Sportstracker and Maps

    the on phone gps is not the most acurate, it does give a good ave speed and distance over a course of a ride. but sofar my highest speed was 70mph down some wooded single track. Now even my over inflated ego wont let me belive that. Other than that its a great application and mapping hte routes on to Google earth on the pc lets you keep a good diry of where you have been you can even tag pictures and vidos to hte locatuions on hte route and then send it to friends to show htem where you have been. Realy handy if you are trying to post new routes on the internet.

    0.3
  • User review of Nokia Sportstracker and Maps

    hmm.... tried this as an alternative to the Garmin Edge - alas the one I have shows incorrect speed and is woefully slow using the maps. Not as good as dedicated cycle GPS, but better than nothing, though nothing is better than a cheese and onion sandwich!

    0.3
  • User review of Nokia Sportstracker and Maps

    I've had one of these for a few months now, the Sports tracker application is good, not quite as accurate as a Garmin and is missing the Navigation/breadcrumb feature. (So it could be used with proprietary mapping software.) Also it doesn't come with a bike mount despite being advertised as being ideal for Cycling (By James Cracknel). Nor are any advertised on the Nokia site as an accessory. Any after market items are big and heavy and seem to be dedicated to motorcycles or sailing. However it works well as a data logger stuffed in a jersey pocket or top of a rucksack

    A specific problem I've had is that the Symbian software corrupts files easily and I have needed to re-format the phone (a factory feature) this however renders the free map licences useless and I'm forced to buy new licenses, which I'm loathed to do if they corrupt so easily. I've got round this by using the outstanding Google maps application for free...:o)

    0.3
  • User review of Nokia Sportstracker and Maps

    I have a Nokia 6220 Classic and have found Sportstracker excellent.

    If you ever have trouble it stopping recording data, then try paging down to a screen that doesn't show the map. This fixed the problem for me.

    Where can I get the bike mount shown? It looks exactly what I'm after! Bike mounts I've found seem like handlebar versions of the car dashboard mounts - not secure at all. The one in the photo looks like it has a velcro strap to secure the phone - ideal.

    0.3
  • User review of Nokia Sportstracker and Maps

    I bought my nokia 6220 for the gps/ sportstracker feature to replace my trusty cateye. I must say when the programme works it is excellent given that it is free on download form nokia.

    My main gripe with the set up is that it relies on a GPS signal which is a bit like trying to monaouver your TV ariel to get a picture. I found it 50/50 achieving getting a signal in the first place, it also took several minutes of waiting to get a signal by which time I often gave up and just used my normal computer. Another frustrating thing is that it would lose a signal during a ride. It would thus continue to tally your time but not record speed or distance resulting in inaccurate data.

    I have since stopped flaffing around with this unreliable device for recording my training. I have since returned to the faithfull and accurate bike computer that cost me £20 2 years ago which has never let me down.

    I believe I would award this system 5/5 if it could get and hold a gps signal 100% of the time but since it can't do this then I struggle to even give it 1 out of 5.

    ps all the other applications on the phone work brilliantly just not the GPS.

    0.3
  • User review of Nokia Sportstracker and Maps

    If you turn on AGPS (assisted GPS) then the lock is very quick and after the initial link up, the GPS is as good as you could hope for on a none-specific GPS device I think.

    The maps is a bit off sometimes, it calculated my last 60km rode as being 34km :(

    I would recommend Garmin on the N95 too, but not for cycling but in the car.

    I also concur with Fozzy that this is not something to strap to the bars and use to navigate, Garmin Edge would be much better (if you have the cash). It's good for sticking in the saddle bag and reviewing once the ride is over, stick to your run of the mill computer for speed and distance.

    0.3
  • User review of Nokia Sportstracker and Maps

    I think its a really nice free software, excluding its not really accurate.

    By the way, I cant find the mount and strap shown in photos. Does anyone know

    where to buy it?

    0.3
  • User review of Nokia Sportstracker and Maps

    I use the sports tracker on my N95 8Gb and find it very useful for reviewing rides.

    The initial GPS lock is sometimes a bit slow though.

    The Sportstracker website is very good too but you can also export your workouts and transfer to a PC and review them with Google Earth..nice touch!

    0.3
  • User review of Nokia Sportstracker and Maps

    Just a quick note to say the GPS on my new N96 is a great improvment over my old N95.

    0.3

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