Burn calories with this phone

Ahmad Jamaluddin | Jun 23, 2008

People around the world are starting to jog (including my mom) to stay healthy. Currently, only Apple’s iPod nano has come out with the idea to count those calories burned and the distance covered. Unfortunately, there are people out there who can't separate themselves from their mobile phone. It can be troublesome to bring your handset along with your iPod nano.

Toshiba and KDDI, the second-largest mobile operator in Japan, have acknowledged that problem and teamed up to squeeze a calories counter and distance measurement feature into a mobile phone.

The result? An unusual-looking mobile phone called Sportia. Not only does this mobile looks "fat", its weird-looking buttons are so small, I don't think I can press them. Furthermore, the directional buttons are placed on the left side of the phone instead of the usual top central position. The overall design of the phone is simple and unattractive, not what one would expect of Japanese phones which are usually glamorous.

According to softpedia.com, Toshiba Sportia will be available in mid-June, but only in Japan. The price is yet to be known. I'll hoping the phone will hit the international market one day, though that's pretty unlikely given that Toshiba phones are still very much Japan-only.

Via SoftPedia

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