http://www.viewpoints.com/Nike-Sportsband-reviews Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:16:03 GMT Latest reviews about Nike - Sportsband http://www.viewpoints.com/Nike-Sportsband-review-83ba2 <p>Love that nike sportsband has an option to calibrate. Over the years, my stride has changed and it's nice being able to re-calibrate it so it knows how far I'm running all the time. Also gives calories burned, pace, and total time (churn). I suppose a gps option would be nice too, but then again, that would make it a more expensive item.</p>&#13; <p> </p>&#13; <p>UPDATE:</p>&#13; <p>Ended up being a defective product (actually lasted me about a year and I use it atleast a few times a week). My boyfriend has the same device and his stopped charging. My screen went out. Luckily the product was recalled and we recieved store credit for the return of both the sport bands.</p>&#13; <p>Waiting on version 2.0...</p>... Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:16:03 GMT http://www.viewpoints.com/Nike-Sportsband-review-83ba2 d3324 4 http://www.viewpoints.com/Nike-Sportsband-review-387a2 <p>The Nike+ Sportsband is a watch-like device that monitors your pace, time, and mileage while you are running. There are three pieces that come with this device: the band, the chip (which goes in your Nike+ shoe), and the little USB device that plugs into your band. Using the device is simple. Charge it on your computer, plug it into your band, press the button, start running. While you are running, you can toggle between pace, mileage, total time, and calories burnt (it bases this on your distance and weight). When you are done with your run, you unplug the USB device from your band, plug it into your computer's USB port and it uploads the data to Nike's website, where you can see performance graphs on your run. Nike also exposes a webservice where you can get at this data from third party websites (like runnerplus.com).</p> <p>I have found that, at least for me, having my run data exposed publicly (it is private by default) forces me to run harder, which is one reason I really like the...</p>... Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:56:02 GMT http://www.viewpoints.com/Nike-Sportsband-review-387a2 aviolette 4