“Marathoner Paul Whitehead goes on training runs with a few necessities: identification, house keys, a digital radio, gel packs of the energy supplement Lucozade–and his Blackberry.
Though Whitehead, the 38-year-old head of business development for Channel 4 television in the U.K., could use the phone for work purposes, he actually deploys it to track his speed, distance and pace with an application known as AllSport GPS. The program, which is downloadable for $5.99 a month for most major carriers, uses the phone’s built-in Global Positioning System to monitor his location and movement.”
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Rebecca Ruiz, Forbes, 14 September 2009
