Which GPS

[marinyork]

You're saying here the mount broke... not the GPS

The mount didn't break, it worked after, it just came off. The GPS did break in the sense that the SD card came flying out and was lost forever. The rest of the unit somehow survived and still works to this day. Just saying that things come off handlebars, garmins are no different.

 

[DrSquirrel]

The mount didn't break, it worked after, it just came off. The GPS did break in the sense that the SD card came flying out and was lost forever. The rest of the unit somehow survived and still works to this day. Just saying that things come off handlebars, garmins are no different.

I'm not suggesting it(the mount) is infallible.

SD cards often come flying out of objects - this happens with mini cams and the like - stupid SD slots, really need a better door over the top.

If we compare this to the mounts avaliable for phones - both bespoke and generic - garmin mounts win hands down.

If it came off, maybe it wasn't put on properly at first? The clip might not have been engaged, granted I agree it could bounce open. You could stop this but its not worth the hassle for a rarity. If the unit had the strap holes (like mobiles do) I would loop a small lanyard around the bar as a backup but alas it doesn't have one.

 

[lpjr]

705 is £280 +HR +CAD



You know - if our phones were as rugged as our garmin(etc) units (and maybe as small) I'd probably use it. Although most runners would have it on their arm and less likely to crash, bike... well, don't crash

Then I'd realise how rubbish the GPS in it pretty much is, without a barometer and then wish I had the Garmin

And imo 0.06 miles is a lot (96 metres), 60m per 1km is poor. Considering I do 17km inward daily that is 1.02km - and being GPS it can differ wildly.

Fair point. But the 0.06 is the difference between my phone and a Garmin 405. We are assuming the 405 is truely accurate. The inaccuracy could be greater or lesser than 0.06. The only way to find out would be to measure it against a known distance. A 10km run was ran last week near me, I will make attempts to copy the route to get an idea of its accuracy (assuming they measured the distance correctly). One thing I have noticed where my phone is inaccurate is on corners. If I do a road route with many sharp corners GPS will take a couple of meters of each corner. That could be the 0.06 difference to the Garmin. However, I can correct that when I refer to the web support later.

With regards crashing, I have just got back in to biking so will try not to. I have not tried attaching to bike as yet. I am more concerned about the mount failing than crashing, will have to research that carefully.

PS I am fighting the phone corner, but if someone gave me a new garmin I think I would use that over my phone.

 

[DrSquirrel]

Fair point. But the 0.06 is the difference between my phone and a Garmin 405. We are assuming the 405 is truely accurate. The inaccuracy could be greater or lesser than 0.06. The only way to find out would be to measure it against a known distance. A 10km run was ran last week near me, I will make attempts to copy the route to get an idea of its accuracy (assuming they measured the distance correctly). One thing I have noticed where my phone is inaccurate is on corners. If I do a road route with many sharp corners GPS will take a couple of meters of each corner. That could be the 0.06 difference to the Garmin. However, I can correct that when I refer to the web support later.

With regards crashing, I have just got back in to biking so will try not to. I have not tried attaching to bike as yet. I am more concerned about the mount failing than crashing, will have to research that carefully.

PS I am fighting the phone corner, but if someone gave me a new garmin I think I would use that over my phone.

Sorry I thought you already knew the distances (OS map or something) though you do have to include the incline and even then if you didn't follow a path or road the distance would be higher.

I'd say the Garmin is going to be more accurate than the software, I would assume Garmin uses better distance calculations than phone software - in which a lot of people still (as ive mentioned before) use the spherical models.

GPS only updates every second thus sharp corners will get straight lined, though if you have "smart mode" on the garmin it will cut them even more.

 

[BenScoobert]

today I got my OLD pda to work with some newer software, so now I'll have a free, big speedo on my bars which is worthless, which means i can keep my phone safe :-)

Im using GPS cycle computer on it, I'll post a review after a ride, see how reliable it is.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=377609&d=1281478789

As per another thread, Ill try this too, later
http://www.veloxgps.de/velox/index.html#

 

[rh100]

today I got my OLD pda to work with some newer software, so now I'll have a free, big speedo on my bars which is worthless, which means i can keep my phone safe :-)

Im using GPS cycle computer on it, I'll post a review after a ride, see how reliable it is.
http://forum.xda-dev...09&d=1281478789

As per another thread, Ill try this too, later
http://www.veloxgps....lox/index.html#

I used to use that on my old Win Mobile pda and a bluetooth gps - worked ok but got some spurious results sometimes, I think i had it on the experia phone also.

 

[rh100]

This http://gpsgate.com/products/gpsgate_client might be of use to someone.

i got a free windows mobile licence a while back for doing a survey for them. It sits between the gps port and the software that uses it - it creates several virtual com ports that the gps data can be made available on for multiple applications. On the windows mobile device I had a gps tracker and tom tom at the same time.

 

[BenScoobert]

This http://gpsgate.com/p.../gpsgate_client might be of use to someone.

i got a free windows mobile licence a while back for doing a survey for them. It sits between the gps port and the software that uses it - it creates several virtual com ports that the gps data can be made available on for multiple applications. On the windows mobile device I had a gps tracker and tom tom at the same time.

I got a new HTC 2 months ago, seems the new stuff has something like this built in to win6.5, dunno about android but I guess that too.

 

[benb]

My Android (HTC Desire) can have multiple apps running, all using GPS at the same time. It does this by default, nothing extra to be installed.

TBH though, you might as well use something that records a gpx track and then upload it to whichever services you want.

I use Endomondo, and although it doesn't save gpx files straight on the phone, it automatically uploads the routes to Endomondo.com and from there you can export the gpx file.

 

[rh100]

Didn't know that, thanks

I have a HTC Android phone now, I will have to check if it does the same.

 

[HLaB]

I don't think either are indestructible. I've seen someone's Garmin Edge come off the mount down a steep hill before my eyes. It survived miraculously enough.

I had mine in a small Topeak Stem Bag on my old hybrid, I'd only be doing around 28mph down Dundas St when I hit a pothole and both went flying; amazingly the rush our traffic disappeared and I was able to run back up the road and claim it before it was run over. Its still fine