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Talking Tech 31st August 2021


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Some Fitness Ideas

 

Apple Watch

 

Rings

Activity

Breath

Blood Oxygen

ECG

Heart beat

Stand

Sleep

Workouts

Accessibility excellent with VoiceOver on watch as with iPhone.

 

Galaxy Watch

 

Heart Beat

Steps

Stress gage

Sleep

General accessibility with Voice Assistant that works with default apps, not 3rd party.

New Galaxy watch 4 will only work with Android.

 

Apple TV fitness

 

Apple Watch and Apple TV come together with Fitness Plus subscription from Apple.

Walk workouts excellent for treadmill users.

Both watch and Apple TV accessibility excellent with VoiceOver on both devices.

 

Smart Phones

 

Health apps both on iPhone and Samsung Phones.

Many 3rd party apps.

Excellent accessibility for iPhone with VoiceOver.

Talkback now on Samsung rather than Voice Assistant, still lagging behind iPhone with Braille support.

My fav Treadmill app, Zomby Run, run away from the Zomby’s on the treadmill.

 

Fitbit

 

Steps

Heart beat

Sleep

Yep still around, Fitbit app still works well with my Charge 2.

Need to use accessibility on iPhone or Android, not accessible in its own wright.

Future versions of Fitbit rumoured to only work with Android.

 

Alexa Skill exercise Review Demos  via Dot To Dot

 

As with all the demos on Dot 2 Dot, excellent quick 5 min demos on some excellent exercise skills.

 

Gradual Workout EP1445 

Desk workout EP1595

The Body Coach EP1117

 

Blind Alive Still available 

 

Blind Alive Eyes Free Fitness workouts are still available but now on Youtube as the website was closed back in June.

 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQYzhBhCuK1GoK3CBp0S2c9LivvhasOK0

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