Ahead of our time? Maybe. Part of a growing trend, certainly!One member of Team GummyBear attended the epic trade show: Barcelona Mobile World Congress. It is huge - 72,000 delegates. 8 enormous halls. Lots of walking around!
Qualcomm had one of the more impressive stands there. The part I particularly liked was looking at many of our smaller projects, and meeting the people behind them. One of the stands was looking at our various mobile health initiatives, including the launch of the Wireless Walking Challenge - challenging delegates to track their steps around the Congress, and compete for who walked the most!
Bonus. Two competitions in one! And more Qualcomm colleagues joining in the fitness campaing!
The super cool bit: Using some Qualcomm APIs they have set up a cool online system that collects steps from all sorts of different gadgets and apps. FitBit. Runkeeper., Noom, MapMyFitness.
The less cool bit: My Nike Fuelband isn't supported yet. (It will as soon as Nike opens their API, due later this year)
I spent one day tracking my steps with RunKeeper, which was a disaster. (I love runkeeper, and log all my runs with it. But it relies on GPS on my phone, which was useless inside the conference halls) . I then had the loan of a FitBit which went really well, and had me up in the top 5 of the leaderboard for a few days!
The setup - simple. Comparison with Nike Fuelband - too early to say, but it does seem a lot more generous on counting steps. I was getting 5% more steps on the FitBit. But either way - more walking :-)
Go Gummies!
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