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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
Have a great workout!
August 31st, 2010
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!
August 2nd, 2010
The Versus channel has developed an iPhone app that provides live video from the 2010 Tour de France. At $14.99, it’s not the cheapest iPhone app in the App Store, but by all accounts it is well worth it for cycling and Tour de France fans.
Let us know what you think!
iPhone App:
July 8th, 2010
Three short years ago, we posted details about how to get NCAA scores on your cell phone. As we gear up for another round of March Madness in 2010, we did a quick review of that article and it made us realize how much has changed since then.
One of our recommendations in 2007 was to get text message alerts from CSTV. Coincidentally, about 11 months later, CBS announced is was acquiring CSTV, and it then became part of the newly named “CBS College Sports Network.” (We will assume from this sequence of events that maybe, just maybe, the CBS execs read MobileMammoth.)
Today, of course, it goes without saying that you can get NCAA scoring updates via text message alerts, mobile websites, and through mobile apps for your iPhone, Android, or BlackBerry devices. The best we’ve seen in 2010 so far have come from, well, CBS Sports.
Test out the links below and try them for yourself.
iPhone App:
(Updated to CBS Sports Mobile, Free on iTunes)
BlackBerry App:
Visit www.polarmobile.com/mobileapps/cbsmm2010 from your BlackBerry device (Not available on BlackBerry App World yet).
Mobile Website:
m.cbssports.com
March 11th, 2010
The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver are just a few days away, and NBC has launched some interesting mobile services to let folks follow the action from wherever they are.
The Vancouver Olympics will clearly be the most mobile accessible Olympics in history, with NBC’s mobile website and apps (2 apps, to be exact) providing the following content:
- Top Stories
- Medal Counts
- Athlete Profiles
- Video
- Polls & Trivia
- Live Results & Schedules
- TV Online & Listings
- Vancouver Information
- Photos
NBC is also offering text message and email alerts, and you can sign up here to receive them. The nice thing is that you can select which winter olympic events you want to follow, so you’re phone is not getting a text message after every oh-so-exciting curling match (still not sure how curling is considered an olympic event, a sport, or even a hobby).
Now if only Vancouver could get some snow… Enjoy!
Mobile Website:
m.NBCOlympics.com
OR, text the word Olympics to 51515
February 4th, 2010
The MLB division races are about to be decided, and October means it’s playoff time for baseball in America. The problem is, you will need to get the scores when you’re waiting in line at the pumpkin patch, the costume store, or wherever you’ll be when your not in front of a screen.
Not to worry. We’ve highlighted a few baseball-related mobile websites in the past that will get the job done. The mobile site from MLB offers baseball scores on your mobile phone, as well as highlights and stories. (A quick look today shows that the Toronto Blue Jays just axed their GM).
For World Series Scores to your mobile, check out the review we did on the CBS Sports Mobile Baseball GameCenter application. Note this is currently available for AT&T and Sprint customers only, and there is a monthly subscription fee. Go here for more details.
Alas, my favorite mobile website for baseball scores, stats, and news is still the one at SportsTap MLB. It’s got the best user interface, and scores are updated close to real-time.
So take your pick. Just don’t forget to save them to your favorites in your mobile browser before you head out!
October 3rd, 2009
In a move to broaden exposure of its wildly popular athletic programs, The Southeastern Conference (SEC) recently launched a new mobile website.
The new mobile website displays recent scores, upcoming game schedules, and sports-related news from around the conference. In browsing the site today, I now know that 4th ranked Mississippi plays at USC this Thursday night on ESPN2 in what could be a very close game.
The site also goes a step further by offering instant alerts via cell phone. Users may elect to receive scores or news alerts for the entire conference, or for just a single school.
While this is nothing new in terms of technology, it is certainly exciting to see the SEC on the playing field of the mobile web.
Mobile Website:
m.secdn.com
NOTE: For those west of the Mississippi, USC refers to the University of South Carolina. SEC fans refer to that school near L.A. as Southern Cal.
September 22nd, 2009
Opening day for the 2009 major league baseball season was last week, and teams are now in full swing. If you were with us two years ago, you might recall our write-up covering how to get baseball scores on your mobile phone directly from MLB.com.
Unless you’re a Washington Nationals fan, you might be looking for other ways to get your teams scores. For the 2009 season, our pick for how to get baseball scores on the go is SportsTap MLB.
Once you get past the ad, this mobile site displays the day’s scores in an easy to read view, and is followed by headlines to the top stories. The site also include information that others don’t, including standings, recent transactions, season leaders, and schedules. This mobile website displays very nicely on the iPhone, which is a good thing for many of you out there.
SportsTap comes close to hitting it out of the park with this one. Take a look and let us know what you think!
Mobile Website:
http://sportstap.mobi/mlb/
April 15th, 2009
Not sure if you’ll be able to park yourself in front of your TV for 6 hours on February 1st? If you might miss any part of this year’s Super Bowl between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals, you may want to add this mobile website to your phone favorites now, just in case (as you can see, the URL is difficult to remember).
Use NFL.com to view the latest score, injury updates, and photos from the big game.
So who will win the Super Bowl? I’m assuming the odds makers are making the Steelers the favorite – anyone know the latest line?
Mobile Website:
www.nfl.com
To find out more, visit www.nfl.com/wireless.
January 21st, 2009
We’re in the midst of bowl week in college football, and the BCS National Championship game between Oklahoma and Florida is just days away. The links listed below to the ESPN mobile website and the Sporting News mobile site will keep you in tuned to the latest scores and highlights.
Bookmark these sites on your mobile browser now so you don’t have to fumble around for the URLs during game time. Enjoy the bowl games!
Sporting News Mobile Website:
mobile.sportingnews.com
m.espn.com or espn.mobi
January 2nd, 2009
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