Sports Tracker is an application that has a history which is almost as interesting as the app itself. It started out as a hobby project made a few Nokia engineers in early 2007. They polished it up in their free time, released it as an application for Symbian devices, and it’s maintained a cult following; with good reason too. We’ve tried almost every sports application available, for nearly every platform, and Sports Tracker is simply the best due to ease of use, quick glanceable information, and it just plain looks pretty. After Nokia decided to let the Sports Tracker project die on a vine, the engineers who made it decided to leave the Finnish handset maker and start their own firm. Oddly enough, Nokia agreed to pay them to keep the Sports Tracker project living, and from what we hear the engineers are making more by having their own company than they were when they had 9 to 5 jobs. Anyway, many people who’ve been burned by Nokia’s latest flagships, mainly the N97 and N900, have switched to either the iPhone or something running Android, and in the process had to find a replacement to Sports Tracker.
If you’re one of those people who dumped Symbian and moved on to Android, then today’s your lucky day, because Sports Tracker has just become available for your device! Check out the video above for a walk through of the new and improved user interface. Note that if you’re an iPhone user you’re in luck as Sports Tracker came out for iOS in early June and they’re already up to version 1.0.3 [iTunes link] to address the initial bugs. We can’t say this enough, Sports Tracker is better than Run Keeper, Nike+, and whatever else you’re probably using. We’ve tried them all, trust us.
What are you waiting for, strap on your helmet and start tracking your epic mountain bike loop!