The SportyPal mobile app helps you track and share your workouts, showing you and your friends how far and how fast you ran, biked, hiked, or just about anything else you did to get from point A to point B.

To see examples of what types of workouts people are tracking using the mobile application, take a look at the latest workouts on their Community Page. For example

The SportyPal fitness app is available on the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows Mobile platforms. To read more details and download the application for your phone, follow the links below.

SportyPal Platforms

• SportyPal for iPhone

• SportyPal Bike for iPhone (New!)

• SportyPal for Android

• SportyPal for BlackBerry

• SportyPal for Windows Mobile

Have a great workout!

Google announced this week they have updated Google Finance for mobile, which is available as a mobile website or an Android app.

Google Finance now provides more consistency across all its platforms in both functionality and in look and feel. There are still some complaints with it however, as evidenced by the user comments in their post.

What do you think? Has Google Finance overall finally surpassed Yahoo Finance in functionality and ease of use?

All week there have been news stories and prognostications about Apple’s upcoming product announcement in September, about how iPads cannot be made fast enough to keep up with demand, and rumors about a new TV delivery service. You’d have to look fairly hard to know that Dell also tried to make some noise this week.

On Tuesday, Dell released their Aero smartphone, which includes a 3.5-inch touchscreen and runs on Android. Some people are also aware that Dell released a tablet computer called the “Streak“. The Streak doubles as a smartphone, and also runs on the Google Android platform.

We all know about Cupertino. So does anyone care about what is coming out of Round Rock, Texas?

Foursquare, which is arguably the most popular location-based service (LBS) out there today, is seeing a recent surge of growth due to growing awareness of LBS applications overall.

For those who are new to Foursquare, here is the official company description:

Foursquare is a mobile application that makes cities easier to use and more interesting to explore. It is a friend-finder, a social city guide and a game that challenges users to experience new things, and rewards them for doing so. Foursquare lets users “check in” to a place when they’re there, tell friends where they are and track the history of where they’ve been and who they’ve been there with.

Foursquare is viral, it’s intuitive, and it gains more value as it’s use increases. It is seeing increased competition from Google Maps for Mobile, and recently announced Facebook Places, but so far that is only propelling it’s status on the location-based scene.

Foursquare is a web application, with mobile versions for the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm, and other mobile platforms. Go check it out and see what you think — Everybody’s doing it!

Google recently announced it’s Voice Actions app for the Android platform. (If you have an Android phone, and you drive, please continue reading…)

Using Voice Actions, users can send email and text messages, call contacts, surf the web, get directions, create a note to self, and even listen to music simply by speaking the commands into your Android 2.2 (Froyo) powered phone.

Of course, no Google app release is complete without a video from one of their engineers:

Google Voice Actions will come pre-installed on the Verizon/Motorola Droid 2 phone, and other phones running Android 2.2 can download it from Android Market.

Read all the details from their blog post here.

MobileMammoth strongly encourages any Android user who might occasionally text and drive to go download and use this app today. Please.

A small health services company in Sydney, Australia contacted us to let us know about their mobile website they launched recently.

While it is not quite finished yet, we were impressed by how well a small company clearly put the time and effort in to designing and building a mobile website for mobile users. They had identified that over 20% of their web visitors reach them through a mobile device, so they acted on that and implemented a helpful website that serves its audience well.

If you own a small business and do not yet have a mobile web presence, get ahead of the game and start thinking about one. The investment is minimal, and many companies still have time to get way ahead of their competition.

Mobile Website:

cityclinic.mobi/

If you have an iPhone 3G, do NOT upgrade to the iOS 4 without reading this first.

Issue:
One of our staff members recently upgraded the OS on his iPhone 3G to the new Apple iOS 4. It was at about that time when her battery began losing power faster than it could be charged. After hours of trial and error, we were finally able to determine that the phone was trying to constantly download email from the MS Exchange server. It was constantly polling the Exchange server even though she had not touched the email settings.

Solution:
Disable the ‘Push’ feature in your mail settings on your iPhone.

1. Using your iPhone, go to Settings.
2. Go to Mail, Contacts, Calendar.
3. Go to Fetch New Data.
4. Turn off the ‘Push’ feature. Then select an interval to fetch your email messages.

For those 3G users who have not upgraded yet, I’d highly recommend you keep the above information handy.

Has this issue bothered you before? Are there any better solutions? We want to hear from you – let us know by commenting below!

Sending out tweets to your Twitter followers can be tough to do when you’re not near an Internet connection. One solution to this dilemma is to send tweets from your mobile phone by text message.

Let’s take a look at how to add your phone to your Twitter account:

1. Text the word ‘Start’ to your country’s Twitter code. In the U.S., the code is 40404. Canada is 21212, the UK is 86444, and India is 53000.
2. After receiving the text message response from Twitter, reply with your Twitter username (nothing else – just your username!).
3. You will then be prompted (again, via text message) to reply with your Twitter password. So do it.
4. Finally, text ‘OK’ as a final response, and you’re done!

You can now send Tweets by simply texting your message to the same Twitter short code you used above. No special words or characters are needed – your text message will be published as your Tweet.

Happy Tweeting!

(by the way, if you’re not following us yet, what are you waiting for? Please follow us here!)

Looking for a way to stay ahead of your league in your fantasy football draft this year?

The 2010 RotoWire Fantasy Football Draft Kit (Mobile Version) is an iPhone app that creates rankings based on the league scoring settings that you enter. Using your league’s scoring settings, the iPhone app calculates rankings of players, and also provides other information including position depth charts and NFL schedules.

This iPhone app is available for $3.99 from the Apple App Store:

Good luck on your fantasy football draft this year!

Many of us have only heard about the upcoming impact of mobile coupons, but only recently are we actually seeing it happen.

I was again reminded of this by way of MobileMarketingWatch.com, where they higlighted the graphic below from PromotionalCodes.co.uk’s Money Saving Blog.

This is one of those cases where a picture tells a thousand words:

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