15 March 2005

The Bike-o-Meter from Siemens

Posted by Mick under: Mountain Biking .

NOTE: this post is from the ExpeditionOz v2 site and was originally posted on March the 15th 2005

Siemens have released an add on for their M65 “ruggedized phone” specifically for mountain bikers, and its called…the Bike-o-Meter IBS-600.

The Bike-o-Meter has the following features:

• Cyclometer and mobile holder in one
• Display of distance, speed and time
• Navigation of predefined routes
• Route recording on the move

Now…of courses the unit doesn’t have a built in GPS, and its not doing your route navigation or logging via cell tower distance calculations…all its doing is plotting distance points based on the cyclometer… ie. how far you have travelled against pre-set distances you entered into the software before you got on your bike. The site is a little bit deceiving lacking in the way it describes what the unit does, so i would recommend checking out the downloadable manual if you interested in it.

The site also has a little section where you can download some pre-created tours to load onto the Bike-o-Meter if you are in Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom…hmm…no Australia, New Zealand or US..all big mountain biking countries.

Anyway…add the Bike-o-Meter to the M65, which (according to the Siemens site) handles extreme shock, dust and is splash water resistant, and you have a pretty interesting little package aimed at a market that no other phone manufacturer is really targeting.

Now…how do i get on the “beta list” to test things like this??? :)

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