New Phone Wants to be Your Personal Trainer

coondoggie writes to tell us that a new prototype "Wellness Phone" has been developed. Designed to help users with everything from staying in shape to checking your breath, the new phone can measure things like body fat, pulse, and even stress level through a series of questions. "The companies are reportedly still testing some of the phone's more advanced technology, including a function to keep track of meals and calculate calorific intake, as well as a network capacity to let users share data. The companies haven't said when nor how much they will sell the phones. Plus it doesn't look like they be sold in the US anytime soon either."

Comments

Keeping track of meals

[krog]

Are they going straight for Apple? Keeping track of meals is one of the flagship features of the iPhone.

Wanna know what you just ate? Look at the smudges on the screen...

Re:Keeping track of meals

[Ice Wewe]

They [the company that makes said nagging phone] has to wait for the price of high(er) resolution LCDs to come down before they can release it to the North American market. The test group thought that the cholesterol and body fat bars going off the top of the screen was a bug... sadly, none of the subjects who submitted the bug report thought that Fat Bastard actually died from heart failure, they just thought he choked on one too many pretzels.

Go ahead, mod this as a troll, you'll only be confirming what the sad truth of the matter is...

Stress?!?!

[iknownuttin]

Users can blow into a tiny hole on the side of the handset for about three seconds to get a reading on their and check their stress level through a series questions.

It sounds like having this phone would cause stress!

Also, if somebody near me was using that thing, I might be tempted to use their phone as a rectal thermometer.

I'll wait for Apple's version

[StressGuy]

Most likely called the "iNag"

This feature set is not limited to phones...

[russ1337]

the new phone can measure things like body fat, pulse, and even stress level through a series of questions.

My wife has a ring on her finger that does exactly the same thing. When she's feeling fat and her pulse is elevated with a high stress level, the ring leaves a big red dent on my forehead.

FTA:

[CaptainPatent]

I think that a phone that can:

take your pulse reading, check your body fat and tell you if you have bad breath. shouldn't be described as a

personal trainer, wellness coach and secretary but instead as a nagging girlfriend. After all, this is a typical day for me:

"are you angry?"
"you need to get off your ass and go running!"
"eeew... did you eat garlic?"

Why a phone?

[NorbMan]

Why do we keep putting crap in phones?

I don't need a tire pressure gauge, a fountain pen, blood pressure monitor, or a cigarette lighter in my phone. I'll use my phone for making phone calls.

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/New_%22voice_chat%22_feature_proposed_for_mobile_phones

Java Apps

[Doctor Sbaitso]

Using your mobile to help stay in shape is a good idea, but there's really no need to buy a separate phone to do so (unless you want additional hardware functionality, like being able to hook it up to your running shoes).

There are quite a few Java applications out there to do so that work on most new mobile phones, like GymTracker to track workouts and KCal to monitor calorie consumption.