iPod Touch - Nike+ sensor, or Nike+ GPS app?

The iPOd does not have GPS. For location it uses the location of nearby wifi routers that are in Apples database. That type of location does not work with the Nike + app. Yu nedd to purchase tnd use the $19 sensor. It uses an accelometer to count steps and that together with the step distance is how distance and speed is determined by the iPPod.

The iPod touch does not have the sensor. That is why you have to purchase the $19 one. The new iPod Nano does have a built-in sensor.

It does appear that you can use the Nile+GPS sensor instead of the built-in app but you still need to purchase the $19 sensor.

I agree, they say you do not need the sensor. I just wonder hao accurate it is on the iPod since the acceleration is a long way form the foot.

Hi,

You are correct, not only do you not need a Sensor to use the Nike+ GPS App on the iPod Touch, the App itself doesn't support a Sensor. It uses the built-in accelerometer on a 2G and up iPod Touch (and the GPS on iPhones) for distance and speed data. My 2G iPod Touch came with the Original Nike+ Running App (not the GPS one) and that one does support the Sensor. I've used both and I prefer the Nike+ GPS App (without Sensor) The voice overs don't kill your eardrums and it gives you more info at your perset lap intervals not just the distance but pace and time. There's also the Tag feature which looks fun, and intergration with FaceBook which I don't use but it's there.

Hope this helps