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There are a lack of compatible Windows Phone 8 fitness trackers and apps at the moment, so Microsoft has chosen to roll out its very own health app today.
Bing Wellness & Fitness Beta is available to download totally free in the Windows Phone Establishment, and it really measures up to the M7 coprocessor-powered Fitbit and Nike Move apps on iOS.
Like its competitors, it makes use of a GPS tracker to tape-record time, range, pace and calories burned while strolling, running and cycling. But it goes an action further with nutritional calculations.
The Bing-themed app can assist you manually tape what you eat thanks to the 300,000 foods listed in its data source and it features hundreds of exercises and exercises with detailed guidelines, photos as well as videos.
Something we haven’t seen before is a distinct interactive signs checker.
Part of the Bing series of apps
The Bing Wellness & Fitness app is really part of a bigger slate of brand-new Microsoft apps including Bing Travel and Bing Food and Alcoholic beverage, both of which launched in beta type last month.
Even if health-focused gamers are not willing to bring Fitbit Force and Nike FuelBand SE trackers and their app counterparts to Windows Phone 8, Microsoft is managing to fill the ‘app gap.’
Of course, Microsoft’s name was mentioned in the possible sale of physical fitness tracker Basis, so its app-only physical fitness option could be supplemented with hardware one day for a price.