Cycling App for Google Phone... kinda cool
 

http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-10299291-251.html

It does a lot but the only part I used the last two days was the GPS tracking to & from work. It calcs total calories burned, mph for each part of the commute, elevation climbed, etc. Plus it saves all your commutes online for a history.

kinda cool... but maybe not for folks that have compters on their bikes and stuff.

Just in case someone's wondering, what's your connection with this app or its manufacturer?

--Juha, a Forum Mod

I would doubt any. My friend d/l the app for her I-phone. It is quite cool. I believe it is just a Google side project. Unless you work for google, I would doubt the connection to the app is anything more than excitement. Mostly because it is like 3 or 4 dollars.

Ha ha... I work in corporate finance for a fortune 50 company (not google; not tech). I just happened to buy a google phone 2 days ago.

Oh, and the app is actually free unless you buy the add-ons that I don't need.

"Free" if you don't include the cost of the phone...

pharasz, so there's another GPS receiver out there that is free? That's good news. Glad to hear that.

I've been using My Tracks on the handset and sending data over to SportTracks on the PC. Works pretty well.

So I used a few of them: MapMyRide, GPS Tracker, and Trail something or another all weren't very good. ActiveX's GPS app was pretty good but it was designed like a kitchen sink sort of PC app, trying to be everything to everyone. It was trying to be just like a GPS unit, with other stuff bolted on. That and a few bugs. Very full featured, but not the best designed IMO. Then I found Cyclemeter, and I'm really happy with it. It's at http://www.abvio.com/cyclemeter/ . Well designed for the road rider or just the interested commuter. I have it set to sent updates to a Twitter account so my wife knows when I'm getting home. :) ActiveX's program could do this too in its defense, but it would insist on sending updates right when I launched the program, when I wasn't recording a route. Annoying, among other things.