| Reviews : Apple Nike + iPod Sport Kit for iPod nano 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G, iPod touch 1G, 2G |
Apple Nike + iPod Sport Kit for iPod nano 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G, iPod touch 1G, 2G Product By Apple Computer Available From 1 Sellers |
Technical Details
- Transforms your iPod nano into a personal workout coach--nano can provide real-time, spoken feedback that alerts you to workout milestones
- Lets your iPod nano track your running time, distance, pace, and calories burned
- Sync your iPod nano to transfer your workout data to iTunes and nikeplus.com for your performance history and more
- Kit includes wireless sensor for Nike+ shoes and wireless receiver for iPod nano
- Compatibility: iPod nano 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G; iPod touch 2G
Product Description
Now there's a way to upgrade your iPod into an interactive personal trainer! It's easy, simple, and completely wireless. Sync your info statistics (after your workout) with your PC or Mac computer at home. Now your iPod keeps you in tune while you listen to tunes. Thanks to a unique partnership between Nike and Apple, your iPod nano or iPod touch (2nd generation) becomes your coach, your personal trainer, and your favorite workout companion. Insert the wireless sensor inside the custom, built-in pocket beneath the insole of your Nike+ shoe, then plug the receiver into the Dock connector on your iPod nano. The iPod touch (2nd generation) includes built-in support for the system no receiver necessary. Now start your workout. As your run or walk, the sensor sends information to your iPod, tracking your time, distance, pace, and calories burned. If you choose, real-time, spoken feedback can even alert you to milestones throughout your workout. Back at your computer, sync your iPod to transfer your workout data to iTunes and nikeplus. There, you can evaluate your performance history, set goals, and even challenge other runners to a virtual race. So save money on physical instructors and take your Nike+ and iPod for a run outdoors or a workout at the gym. Then keep track on your progress. Your lifestyle really goes up a notch with the Apple MA365LL/C Nike + iPod Sport Kit.Amazon.com Product Description
Nike + iPod Sport KitTransform your iPod nano or iPod touch (2nd gen) into a personal workout coach with the Nike + iPod Sport Kit. This wireless sensor and receiver combination works exclusively with your Nike+ shoes and iPod nano or iPod touch to give you real-time feedback during workouts and let you track your performance on your Mac or PC.
Your personal trainer. Your favorite workout companion.
Thanks to a unique partnership between Nike and Apple, your iPod nano 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G; or iPod touch 2G becomes your coach.
Tune
Insert the wireless sensor inside the custom, built-in pocket beneath the insole of your Nike+ shoe, and then plug the receiver into the Dock connector on your iPod nano. The iPod touch (2nd generation) includes built-in support for the system--no receiver necessary.
Run
Now start your workout. As your run or walk, the sensor sends information to your iPod, tracking your time, distance, pace, and calories burned. If you choose, real-time, spoken feedback can even alert you to milestones throughout your workout.
Sync
Back at your computer, sync your iPod to transfer your workout data to iTunes and nikeplus.com. There, you can evaluate your performance history, set goals, and even challenge other runners to a virtual race.
What's in the Box?
Wireless sensor for Nike+ shoes, wireless receiver for iPod nano, printed documentation.
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Customer Reviews
By Dan M (Florida, USA)
I received this as a gift, and no where in the instructions does it tell you how to use it if you are not waering Nike Shoes. Having said that I used it with non-Nike Shoes and a holder, designed specifically for it. I ran for almost 10 minutes and it said I had only gone .10 miles! I'm not a fast runner, but thats even slower than me.
It also has no GPS, so if you want to calibrate it and don't live near a test track (the high schools near me are not safe and the tracks are not open to the public), you are SOL. I guess I will have to use both my iPod, with this, and my iPhone with the free Run Keeper program at the same time to figure out how far I am really going.
I haven't tried the website yet, but I can't imagine it being very helpful if it can't even get the distance correct.
By A. S. Prince (South Elgin, IL)
I was really surpised how easily it was to use. I just hooked it up, calibrated it and was able to use it immediately. The only thing was I didn't immediately know about the nikeplus.com linkup because it isn't mentioned at all in the insert that comes with the device. But I soon figured it out and it has become a huge part of my training.
By Elizandra Cruz (NYC,NY)
I got this product a year ago and I was using few days good and other days won't work because the sensor in my shoes won't be recognized by the ipod sensor so it's a pain in the neck to get it to work for one or 2 days and then won't work at all. This is the bad thing about sensors!!! Other thing is the battery life of the sensor is hard to tell when you need to replace it because it has nothing to take out not even a light so if you turn on or off the sensor or the battery needs replacement you can't tell because all it has is a button which you pressed in but you can't tell if it is on or off, if it's working, if the battery is wasted.. I hate now that I spent like $40 in this when I could have gotten a heart monitor watch or something like that, don't buy anything that has sensors specially if the sensor does not has anything to tell if it is still working....Waste of money!
By A teacher man
Like several reviewers here, I like the Nike+, but I've found that its accuracy is not great all the time. I usually run on a measured track, so I've tried to calibrate it to be more accurate without much luck. As I pass a mile, two miles, etc. I check the Nike+ measurement, and its always short even after calibration The strange thing is often it will be short most of the run, and then at the end (eg., 5 mile run) it will be pretty close. My pace is pretty consistent too, so I don't think that is the problem. The reason I use it on the track is so I can record the workouts on the web site, which is excellent. If you're running out on the street and you don't have the path measured, the Nike+ is a good way to get a general idea how far you're running. I would say it's usually off by about 10%. If you want true accuracy, better get a much more expensive GPS system.
By Carrie-anne M. Goodwin
Wonderful product - my second one (I lost my first). Helps me track my run times, distances and keeps it all in memory for me...hate to run w/out it.
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