Get your run on - Apple taking preorders for the Nike+iPod Sport Kit

Any news on when this will be available in the uk? I cant wait ti get my hands on this kit!

And I read the battery was about 1000 hours, so for me even if I ran every day it would still last almost 3 years!! Which is acceptible for a $29 piece of kit :)

i jog with my 3g iPod almost every day and i don't have any issues w/ my HDD.

I really hpoe that this can be used with non-iPod nano players.

Sigh. Why couldn't it have been Adidas?

I'm actually pretty sure that battery life was mentioned as being around 1000 hours for the chip. Like Jonathan I don't have a source though! Sorry!

Still, I'd second what others have already said: running with a hard drive-based music player is not recommended. Those drives aren't designed to take that kind of jostling. There are many who even question whether iPods should be in pockets when their users are walking around, and after plenty of my own iPods have failed over the years, I tend to agree.

So I just got off of the phone with Apple. They said it should work with other iPods if it will fit in the dock connector. They weren;t sure of the form factor yet.

Any idea how to use the transmitter with non-Nike shoes? I have just bought expensive shoes + I do not like the idea on tighing transmitter with the shoes when there seem to be no technical reason for that (at least Suunto and Polar allow to attach transmitter to laces [i.e. to most shoes].

i read somewhere that the battery life was rated at 1k hours. forget where though. if it works and is as nice as i hope it is, i'd drop the $30 on a new one when the battery died. I ordered back on may 23 from nike, sans shoes. think i'm going to rig up my own solution (don't know exactly what, though i'm reluctant to cut into the insoles of my sneakers). just have to decide what my "power" song will be now...

i read (i forget where online and don't feel like looking for the link, sorry.. haha, give me a job tuaw and i would...) that the battery life would be around 1k hours. like jonathan fingas, i wouldn't mind dropping $40 when it dies for a new one. maybe replace it every time i get new running shoes or something. dunno. i did not opt to buy the nike shoes (i pre-ordered from nike back on may 23). i'm going to try a variety of methods for attaching them to my current sneaks (nikes are good shoes, but there are better in similar price ranges).

I've heard that the battery life on the sensor is about 1200 hours, but I wouldn't have a source to quote on that. At any rate, it should last a few years before it needs to be replaced. I wouldn't object heavily to another $29 on that kind of frequency (assuming the kit is still being sold by then).