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Motorola has just released their all new ultimate fitness tracker app. It not only monitors your work out, but plays music as well. And you can even tie it as a watch. Ring a bell ?? Yes, its a lot like an iPod Nano in many ways. But, Motorola had added more features that really brings some interest to the device. First things first, you can add your favorite songs to the device by connecting it via micro USB cable and you can use the Motorola software to load music from iTunes or Windows Media Player.

It features a touch display to ease up navigation and its sweat proof, rain resistant and scratch resistant. The built in music player is intelligent enough to track songs with which you perform your workouts better and creates a playlist based on that. It also has a built in FM Radio just in case if your music library is not helping. The device can also connect to Wifi and smartphones. All your work out progress are uploaded to internet right from the device. You can track your performance at https://www.motoactv.com/ . The other features include:

• Ongoing tracking of fitness performance stats, including pace, distance, calories burned, and map of route covered, with automatic wireless syncing of workout data to MOTOACTV.com
• 8GB or 16GB of storage for endless playlists
• Sports a 1.6” full-color touch-screen display that is sweat-proof, rain-resistant and scratch-resistant Corning® Gorilla® Glass that auto-adjusts for indoor or outdoor lighting
• Option to sync with the latest Android-powered smartphone to receive incoming calls and texts
• FM radio capabilities for more song variety
• Up to five hours of battery life for outdoor workouts, 10 hours indoors, and nearly two weeks on standby
• Supports both Bluetooth® 4.0 and ANT+ wireless connectivity for your existing fitness sensors and your future ones
• Size: 46mm x 46mm x 9.6 mm
• Weight: 35 g

The pricing is not very competitive as expected. You can MOTOACTV 8GB at $249 and 16GB at $299. The Motorola SF700 and Motorola SF500 sports headphones are $149 and $99. The device will be launched exclusively with Verizon Wireless this November. And it will available in first quarter of 2012 in Latin America and Europe.

Android manufacturers aren’t the best when it comes product launches. They’re product secret some how turns to be the trending topics on Twitter and Facebook. Galaxy Nexus is no exception. Here we have all the hardware specifications of the phone from Phandroid.

Last Monday the Blackberry services were down in Europe, Africa, Middle East and India preventing users from accessing mail and their favorite messenger service. Within a day, the service outage expanded to USA adding another millions of users to the list.

The outage has had a real bad effect on RIM. With the roll out of services like iMessages from Apple, ever growing cross platform messenger Whatsapp, BBM is now facing real competition. The last incident was a wake up call to RIM that they may not be as strong as they think they are. Rumors have always been floating on the internet about a Blackberry Messenger for Android client. If thats true, its a good move from RIM to stand against the competition. The service outage also coincided with Apple iPhone 4S launch. It would be interesting to see if anyone left Blackberry for an iPhone 4S during this period.

To download the apps, visit Blackberry App World from your device.

Google introduced Google Wallet a few months ago. Initially, you were only able to just make payments using the embedded NFC chip and the app. But today, Google has added more features to it bringing convenience and more reasons to adopt the technology. Google has partnered with Container Store, Foot Locker, Guess, Jamba Juice, Macy’s, OfficeMax and Toys R Us and some of you may have already paid at these locations using Wallet. Today, Google also brings the ability to redeem coupons and earn reward points. All you have to do is continue to shop and the app does the rest. You can also find featured offers in the Offers tab in the app. Right now there are plenty of offers. These include 15% off at American Eagle Outfitters, 10% off at The Container Store, 15% off at Macy’s and an all-fruit smoothie for $2 at Jamba Juice. More are being added.

You can easily organize your loyalty cards. Footlocker, Guess, Office Max and American Eagle are giving loyalty cards to Google Wallet users. You can earn rewards point as you shop and use them when they can be redeemed.

Google has also made the transactions details for the prepaid card users in real time with all the information you want to know like Merchant name, Location, Dollar value and the time of transaction. The image above is how it may look like. Excited about Google Wallet ? Want to buy a Nexus 4G from Sprint with Google Wallet feature ?? Then hit this link.