Reviews for Nike + iPod Sensor

After 1 year you must throw the sensor away and buy a new one.... OK, can't replace the battery, so much for the environment: how are we supposed to dispose of the obsolete sensor? Nike and Apple obviously don't care. In the apple stores you can buy all sort of third party accessories, but not this original product, why would that be? To sell more kits, as they come at a higher price tag.

26 of 44 people found this useful

I used to be able to say I loved all things Apple. Now I have to say I love ALMOST everything. This product IS HORRIBLE. The battery life is dismal, and the support on the product is non-existant. I do understand the difficulty inherent in supporting this type of product, but without a proper system of identifying shelf-life of the batteries, and without even an option of a replacement sensor at a reasonable price... this all adds up to a product that you're better off without. Save the money you would have spent on this and buy a motivational CD or something. All this did was raise my blood pressure before I'd run... just thinking about how bad it is.

32 of 54 people found this useful

I'm sure this product is great for those people who only do a slow jog every once in a while, but for people like me who run more than 5 miles a day, this product is not worth the money.

I recieved the nike+ system for christmas and was very excited to test it out. it worked great for about 3 weeks. once track season started, and i began training more vigorously, i began to notice the recorded distance and time of my runs was a bit off.

finally, the battery completely died in the very beggining of february, after only about a month of using this product. i have yet to buy a replacement, and i'm still not sure whether the $20 is worth only a month of workouts.

23 of 33 people found this useful

After only 2 months and two weeks, and only 78 miles, my sensor died. I talked to the Genius at an Apple store and was told my sensor was out of warranty. How can that be? My husband bought this for me for Christmas and already no warranty. After talking to the customer service reps at a bunch of sporting goods stores I know I am not the only frustrated user. One shoe department manager told me she tells people not to waste their money on the product because she's had so many complaints. This is really a scam. I've bought another kit but, if this one dies quickly, I'm done. I'll spend my $30 on something else.

37 of 40 people found this useful

I was given this product as a BD gift. I thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread for tracking work outs. But that all ended after only 6 months of usage. It seems to me that the engineers for the battery life and those that design printer ink jet cartridges have to much in common. I suggest that someone go back to the drawing board and figure a redesign battery replacement for the end user.

20 of 27 people found this useful

Same situation - bought the kit and liked it. What I did not like was that I had to replace the battery in the sensor right after the warranty expired.. $20 is WAY TOO STEEP for such a small piece of technology.

That's a real scam and I'm done w/ this product. Apple and Nike should stand behind their products and make us feel good as customers..

$5 would have been reasonable, $20 is not.

101 of 138 people found this useful

After buying this product at the Nike Outlet Store, I realized it did not work with my new 80gB IPod, which was only 6 months old. So I ordered a refurbished Ipod Nano ($75) to use exclusively for running with this system. After waiting for the Nano to arrive, I finally got to try the Nike Run system- I registered my product and turned on the sensor to try it out. I shook it in my hand for 15 sec to simulate running, and to see how the thing worked, and got excited when it registered distance. But the screen said sensor battery low, which I thought was strange.
I then turned it to sleep mode, because I had read reviews that stressed saving the battery power, plus I had that strange low battery warning. The next day I turned it on to go running and it was not recognized by my IPod, even after attempting to locate it and repressing the sleep button, in case it was still asleep.
I tried it again the next day, and its officially dead. And the warranty is invalid, because I guess the outlet store had it for at least a year.

All in all, $29.99 for the kit + $75 for the required Nano + 2 days of frustration = one dissatisfied customer. However, now that I bought all the stuff I'll probably end up dishing out the $20 for a replacement, even though it makes me furious to think of it. I just hope I don't get another dud sensor.

23 of 39 people found this useful

I have bought two of these, one lasted 13 months the other lasted 3 months! My ipod is telling me the sensor battery is low and it needs replaced, I find it very hard to believe that Nike can't come up with a better sensor battery replacement process

54 of 60 people found this useful