Nokia intros 5140i fitness phone
All right, fitness geeks, Nokia's got sumthin' for you. The 5140i is a tri-band handset designed for "active-minded consumers" (as opposed to the rest of us sluggishly-minded folk) that offers dust and splash resistance and "durability," which is apparently not a feature found in other phones. The deal with this mobile is it pairs up with special fitness-related software on Polar wrist computers (yeah, that means they're watches) to download training data to your phone after a workout. The software keeps track of stats you fitness-types need to know, like heartrate and other various sundries (we wouldn't have any idea — they never let us out of Engadget HQ). It's also got a built-in Fitness Coach application to spur you on during that last mile, so you can fire your insanely expensive personal trainer as well as stop begging your friends to call you up at 27:32 into your daily run. Beyond whipping you into shape for the next Olympics, the Nokia 5140i also packs a built-in FM radio, Push-to-Talk, and the Nokia Xpress audio messaging functionality, which lets you send voice messages to others over GPRS (which for some reason is more advantageous than leaving them voicemail, or just talking to them in person for crissakes).
