Nokia Wellness Diary (Challenge)
Nokia Research Center has developed a “Wellness Diary which is available as a free download from their website. Since living healthier was one of my three new year’s resolutions, I will give it a try.
Come rain, come shine, I will use it for thirty days and then report back. Is it good? Did it change my life(style)? I’m a healthier than I was before I started using it? Check back in 30 days and you’ll find out.
The application promises to make it easier to take an active role in managing your health by tracking and monitoring various aspects of your health and life.
Mark my words - I’ll be back in 30 days with a full review. In the meanwhile here are some more screenshots.
Thanks Roman!
February 1st, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Thank you nokia. This type of software is exactly what I wanted.
February 1st, 2007 at 4:50 pm
You’re right. I should also have thanked Nokia. I really like when they release innovative, free software.
February 1st, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Well, I’ve been looking for this kind of software for some time. All the credit to Nokia.
February 1st, 2007 at 9:53 pm
I want a bluetooth scale to synch with my phone. Weight and bodyfat percentage. That would rock.
February 1st, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Nokia should consider to port or create more software applications for their phones.
That’ll make a huge difference, add-on value, like Apple does to their product, or Palm did on their PDA.
I like to see, something similar to psiloc extensive recorder (free) from Nokia.
Or Handy expense like Palm Expense from Nokia as well.
February 2nd, 2007 at 1:18 am
I’ve using this product for 3 days now and I think it is nice.
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But it could be better if there would be a connection to a sportsdata base and food database. Now you can input how many calories you ate but how do you know how many you ate? I also use a program for my E61 called Diets. In this program you can calculate how many calories you ate and if you exercise, how many more calories you can eat (which is very important!
If these programs could be combined together is would be superb.
Wouter
February 2nd, 2007 at 6:08 am
Wow thx for this… its a nice tool, but like Wouter said how do you know how many calories u eat?… anywayz, ill keep “playing” with this app.
Also, i wanna thx you for taking time and blog about the E-series devices i found this place a couple months ago, since then is a daily read. Really helpful place.
Thx
Rob
February 2nd, 2007 at 7:31 am
Nokia + voice synthesis + nokia wellness + gps = “Get your rear out of Burger King! Don’t you dare pull over at Baskin Robins!”
February 2nd, 2007 at 7:46 am
Wonderful article and thanks for the heads up about this cool app! I’ve been using excel and OfficeSuite on my N73 to track several health parameters. Obviously this Nokia app is a much more elegant way to perform this tracking…. this app is exactly what I’ve been looking for.
Good luck with your 30 day trial, looking forward to hearing more of your thoughts about this software.
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:58 am
I also installed this software a while ago. Definitely a great effort, but still needs improving.
Ok, so I played some basketball. There’s no option for basketball (most probaby because CEOs are supposed to play golf or squash), but I also can’t seem to add it myself. So, I think football will do, pretty much the same energy consumption etc. Okay, so I fill in the data. Wait, distance? What the heck does distance have to do with football, golf or aerobics? They all share the same property. If you leave it blank, you will get a notice.
Well, I’ll be staying tuned for updates
February 2nd, 2007 at 7:26 pm
I kept a record of my blood pressure on a Worksheet, after two weeks the sheet just disappeared!!! Any body knows why this happened ?
February 4th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
This software sux. Get a real life and just do good healthy things for yourself. Stop hiding behind your technology htinking it will finally be the thing that motivates you to lose that nerd standard “spare tyre”.
February 5th, 2007 at 12:49 am
for previous post by nhv
so if you think this software sucks, then i assumed that you also:
1. rather to fly and drive thousands of km everyday just to meet up with families and friends, than using any IM to chat with them
2. rather to write and send letters, than to exchange emails
3. rather to take photos by film camera and develop them in dark room, than doing digital photography
4. etc.
please don’t use such cynism, some of us reading and posting this blog, do like these technologies (e.g. this software) and don’t care much if it has any significant impact in our REAL life.. we just like to talk about it.. share.. see some progress in symbian developments
please do not tell everybody to get a life or something
regards
February 5th, 2007 at 9:30 am
That is one of the things I really miss about my palm os pda is healthetech’s balance log software. It combined what Nokia has now done with an excellent calorie calculator (w/ food list). Healthetech is now in bankruptcy, and the future of balance log is uncertain.
February 11th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
[...] Nokia Wellness Diary Challenge is a nice piece of software , I am already tracking my blood pressure with it, as well as working time, but it is capable of much more! [...]
February 11th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
I would like to see a desktop support for this software. I use Nokia 5500 for my workout and the data syncs well with the diary.
Keep it up
Vishal
February 12th, 2007 at 1:24 am
Mobisystems just released “Diets” for s60 v3. This is almost identical to balance log made by healthetech. Check it out: http://nokia-e61.mobisystems.com/product.html?p=8&l=1&pid=23&i=1
March 3rd, 2007 at 11:31 pm
I gotta be honest. All this has done for me so far is to tell with a nice graph me that I’m not losing any weight.
March 11th, 2007 at 7:27 am
I am an Insulin dependant diabetic and have to control my health carefully and this is a good programme for the e61, now if Nokia could give me an insulin control programme, or if any one knows of one please let me know
March 13th, 2007 at 11:07 am
Here’s some more stuff to make you want to get out to the tack again and again:
http://research.nokia.com/research/projects/SportsTracker
May 19th, 2007 at 10:19 am
I downloaded the application in February, and since then I have lost 14 kgs, thanks guys and Nokia!!!!