Polar's Bluetooth heart rate monitor (for Nokia?) gets FCC approval

by Chris Ziegler posted Jan 13th 2009 at 6:47PM

Huh, wonder what's under that white sticker! Don't suppose it could be a "Polar for Nokia" logo, could it? We're betting it is, which means fitness freaks with Finnish phones banded to their arms should be able to start tracking their grueling 20-mile jogs through San Francisco before too long. We know it's Bluetooth, we know it straps to your chest, and we know the all-too-sparse draft manual identifies the pod as the WearLink+, but that's about all we know. Anyone stoked about this?

Filed under: Nokia, Accessories

Tags: bluetooth, fcc, heart rate, heart rate monitor, HeartRate, HeartRateMonitor, hrm, nokia, polar

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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farhan @ Jan 13th 2009 7:49PM

yeah! the latest version of run.gps supports some bluetooth heart rate monitors. with this and any gps enabled windows mobile phone, you could leave your t6/forerunner/ipod/nikeplus at home

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Eric @ Jan 13th 2009 11:32PM

Wow! That makes Nokia Sports tracker (beta) just as useful as the Garmin Edge 705!

OK not really, but for those of us who aren't training for the tour, it makes a nice solution. And now the whole world can know my HR in real time!

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The Drain @ Jan 14th 2009 10:13AM

Polar lost me with their piss poor Mac support. Next time I'm going Garmin.

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lauralemay @ Jan 14th 2009 2:25PM

I used nothing but Polar for years and years but the Garmin I got last year blew me away. The hardware is more reliable -- no HRM dropouts at all -- and the software is just way way above and beyond anything Polar is doing. I just can't see ever buying another Polar at this point.

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John @ Jan 14th 2009 3:34PM

Hi. Zephyr Technology sell a great BT HRM and HxM (does speed & distance as well) now. The devices work with RunGPS, and come with an SDK if any developers want to port the devices data to their mobile apps.

Check the products out at
http://www.zephyrtech.co.nz/products/consumer/hrm and
http://www.zephyrtech.co.nz/products/consumer/hxm

Also of note - there is an open source project using these devices - access it through "Latest news" on http://www.zephyrtech.co.nz/

Cheers!

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brad zdanivsky @ Jan 15th 2009 7:40PM

Good to see. I like Nokia phones for the usability (button design really matters to use quadriplegics) and of course the Java environment. But.. deploy over air or bluetooth? Having to unlock phones is a headache for even savvy users.

See Open Source project for Hear Rate Monitoring here:
http://code.google.com/p/zephyropen/