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CES 2016: Mio Slice ditches step counting for Personal Activity Intelligence index

Mio Slice

Canada’s own Mio today announced a new activity tracker that aims to make fitness monitoring more personal. The Mio Slice focuses on a new Personal Activity Intelligence (PAI) index that focuses on maximizing your lifespan and reducing lifestyle-related diseases rather than the more usual daily goals like 10,000 steps. The Mio PAI algorithm is based on the Hunt Study, a long term health project that monitored more than 60,000 individuals were closely […]

Garmin Forerunner 225 with wrist-based heart rate monitor announced

Garmin Forerunner 225

Garmin today unveiled its latest GPS running watch. The Forerunner 225 is the first Garmin watch to include a wrist-based heart rate monitor. Partner Mio is providing the optical sensor that eliminates the need for a separate heart rate strap. “After more than 10 years of developing GPS running watches we are very excited to team up with Mio to introduce our first device […]

Mio announces 3.5G Explora K70 GPS mobile phone

The new Garmin-ASUS nüvifones suddenly have some competition from one of Garmin’s PND competitors. As expected, Mio announced its first 3.5G mobile phone today at the CeBIT tradeshow in Germany. The Mio Explora K70 is powered by a 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7201A processor and Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. It comes with quad-band (850/900/1800/1900MHz) GSM/GPRS/EDGE and tri-band (850/1900/2100MHz) connectivity, a 3.5-inch […]