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Item work just as promised, only problem is that you can't leave it in the shoe and wear the shoe or you will eventually run down the battery which can't be replaced. Once the battery is dead the item becomes useless. Manufacturer didn't provide a way for the customer to change the battery, thus the customer must purchase a full replacement to continue to utilize the product/software.

Although I love running with the Nike+ system, I have to agree with some of the people here that this system isn't the most environmentally friendly. It feels like a waste to replace the complete sensor just to be able to use your Nike+ again. Although there are ways to replace the battery in the sensor manually (just Google it and you'll find it) I wasn't sure if I would be able to do this without injuries. This could definitely be made easier. Not sure if this was a design decision by Nike or by Apple, but the motivation here is obviously to keep milking this so that instead of selling a product once they can continue to have you spend money every year when the battery dies.

This product includes just the shoe's sensor to get training information for Nike+.
I believe that's very useful, because before this you had to buy the sensor plus the iPod receiver, which is a waste of money if you just wanted to replace a worn out or lost sensor.
One thing that many people forgets, is that every sensor has a sleep button, you can set it to sleep when you know you're not going to use the sensor, so you can save battery life and making its life last longer, so in the long term you save money.

The Nike+ was the entire reason I bought by Nano over 2 years ago. The entire sport kit works great, so good that my wife bought an Ipod and sport kit 6 months later. So far I have over 800 miles on my original sensor and I am buying one to have on hand just in case it dies. My wife's sensor died after just over a year and 300+ miles.

I love the challenges on the NikePlus website. Since I primarily run alone, they help keep me motivated.

Flaws:
There is no speed work settings. It would seem like it would be easy to allow users to program in an interval program of some sort. Also there is a known flaw that after 500 kilometers, the voice of Paula keeps congratulating users on finsihing 500k.

I still give this 5 stars because the advantages greatly outweigh these drawbacks.

I bought this without having too high of expectations for it. I was very pleased with the product after using it for a couple weeks. I do not have the nike+ shoes that hold the sensor, I made a pouch to keep in in and attached it to the shoes with the laces. I went for a 1.5 mile run according to the mapmywalk website. When I uploaded my run to the nikeplus website it said it was a 1.7 mile run. I drove the route with my car and it was 1.5. There was an option to calibrate your sensor after the run. I knew it was 1.5 not 1.7 so I changed it. Ever since then it has been tracking very accurately. When you plug in your IPhone 3GS in my case, iTunes automatically sends your run information to the nikeplus site, which I had to create an account at earlier. That site is quite useful, it will graph your run time and distance, has a place to create goal or challenges for yourself and has an active community that you can interact with. I believe this product is well worth the price.