RunKeeper now supports the iPhone 5's M7 processor

We followed the arrival of the first
applications taking advantage of the coprocessorM7 in this
article, it's nowfor the big names in the App Store to take advantage
new possibilities offeredin terms of sports monitoring and
energy saving.

So, Nike releasedl’application
Nike+ Move vue icibut for now it unfortunately remains
restricted to the US store and today, it's the turn of
RunKeeperto propose a
updating its sports tracking appproposing to use the
M7 chip. He thus grilled the politeness of the great competitor
Runtastic!

This latest update adds to the already numerous possibilities of
this application:

• So-called "silent" tracking, therefore reserved for the iPhone 5s, which allows you to
  detect and measure walking phases in the background. This allows you to follow
  its activity without having to press “Start” and
  “Stop” within the application and… without consuming as much
  only with GPS and the app in the background.

• A stride rhythm monitoring table, also reserved for the iPhone 5s which
  allows you to visualize the change in stride rhythm during races or
  marches

And for all compatible iPhones, AirDrop appeared withiOS 7which is now supported allowing:

• training sharing with AirDrop allows you to exchange sessions
  individual workouts with friends nearby
• adding nearby friends to the RunKeeper friends list

• 
  RunKeeper is free here on the App Store

Also read:

• THE
  first apps to take advantage of the iPhone 5s' M7 processor

• 
  iPhone apps folder: 30 apps to get (back) into sport (GPS tracking,
  fitness, abs, cardio, yoga and daily monitoring…)

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founder of the site. Computer engineer and Internet specialist where he has held various positions of responsibility, Laurent has been passionate about mobility since the arrival of "PDAs" in the 90s. Journalist for 4 years for the magazine Team Palmtops (Posse Presse) and author of several books on the iPad published by Pearson.