Samsung, Adidas team on fitness phone

Samsung has teamed up with Adidas to launch a fitness phone, the SGH-F110, called miCoach. The handset features a heartbeat monitor, step counter, built-in MP3 player/FM tuner, 2 inch LCD screen and a 2MP camera. The phone will even alert you when you aren't running hard enough. It's like having a mini coach in your pocket. Check out the video on their website and you'll see why the hard-core running set might be intrigued by this device.

The handset is scheduled to launch
in the U.K. next month but no price points have been released yet.

Bad News for Motorola

According to newly released data, Motorola lost its second spot in the global mobile handset market to Samsung in the third quarter. Motorola ended the third quarter with a 13.1% share of the market, while Samsung garnered a 14.5% share, Gartner reported. Nokia increased its share to 38.1%.

Motorola’s share of the global mobile phone market fell to 13.1% in the three months to the end of September, compared with 20.7% a year ago and 14.6% in the second quarter of 2007, according to figures from Gartner, the research firm. Meanwhile Samsung edged up to 14.5% from 12.2% last year and 13.4% in the previous quarter.

Meanwhile, Nokia underlined its global dominance, increasing its share to 38.1% – its highest quarterly share to date – and up from 36.9% in the second quarter.

“Motorola today is a pale version of the company it was a year ago,” said Carolina Milanesi, research director at Gartner.

Motorola saw strong sales in 2005 and 2006 thanks to its ultra-slim Razr phone, which sold more than 50 million units, but has struggled to find new products with the same popularity.