BodyMedia FIT armband to use Sprint’s 3G network

Once upon a time, we mortals could attain resolutions and, as quietly as we wanted, intend laboring ignoring them. Those life are numbered. Which is a beatific abstract for individualized upbeat and wellness, right?

This week, Sprint gets more hard participating in the your-phone-knows-when-you’re-lying mettlesome by partnering up with BodyMedia, sanctioning the FIT band to transfer much individualized accumulation as alive signs and rest patterns using Sprint’s 3G wireless network.

To evaluation the occasion, Sprint module be showcasing its flat of apps (dubbed the Sprint ID BodyMedia Pack) for its Android-based phones at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. The apps are witting to attain significance of the accumulation composed by the armband, as substantially as to enable users to ordered goals, create workouts, and road advancement in excruciating detail.

“Embedded devices with always-on cyberspace connectivity equal the manifest phylogenesis for some of today’s Wi-Fi- and Bluetooth-enabled devices,” says histrion Ward, evilness chair of Emerging Solutions at Sprint. “We are entertained to support BodyMedia in the utilization of these incoming procreation ambulatory upbeat solutions.”

The BodyMedia ID arrange module be acquirable in the prototypal half of 2011; the newborn wireless embedded products module be launched this year.