The included bracket is also managed and should fit with the supplied spacers on each handlebar. They will not budge and the Quickfix bracket holds the Navi safe. One must note only the top and bottom, so that the holding tray snaps into place in the bracket. Unfortunately, I do not equal noticed so that my Navi is popped after only 500 meters on the street. Thus, the exchange had died, but otherwise it has to serve well survived - the Teasi looks so not only robust. The bracket has a ball joint, so that one can well orient the Navi in the line of sight.
Is supplied, the device has an internal battery. The holding lt. Manufacturer about 12 hours, but only if you set the lighting to 10 seconds, or 10 seconds after a turn, the lighting goes out again. However, this is very annoying if you want to see in between times, where you are. So probably rather stay 5 hours at continuous illumination. One major drawback is that the battery can not be changed. For longer trips without loading facility that's a real problem. Here replaceable AA rechargeable batteries and batteries as an alternative would have been much better.
Now the operation of Navis. The start up is quick and the satellites are also found quickly. The reception is consistently good and the way tears even in forest from.
In the display, I was very skeptical. In a first outdoor test, I could see something in the sun hardly what with color display is the way almost all outdoor Navi's a problem. The transreflective screen (you have to stop right in the sun, so that it lights up passive) helps bicycle not so much, because you can keep in the sunlight is not as easy when hiking. But in practice, the display was nevertheless easy to read, because I had not a single day throughout the trial period with a cloudless sky.
The resistive touch screen responds very well to finger pressure, but is not to be compared with a capacitive touch panel like the iPhone. For this, the display can be operated even when wearing gloves. Moving the card is a bit cruel: in this type display. The resolution of the display, the much more expensive competitors in the shade and provides detailed images. Zooming and sign the card is quite fast. Overall, the Vision has enough computing power for all necessary tasks.
The menu navigation is solved on the whole very clear. There is a home screen from which all important functions can be accessed. Unfortunately, the key to return to the home screen, mounted on the side of the Navi's, so that the key is the drive to push bad. Better it would be placed on the front page, as the home button on the iPhone.
The map display is in my opinion clearly. The paths are black on a light background, which is easier to read in direct sunlight. But there are few street names or city names, so you already need to know about where you are currently. A Profile of the distance traveled can be optionally extended to the map and hide. Unfortunately, the two information fields at the top of the map display Hide not permanent, so that the visible area of the map is reduced unnecessarily. Furthermore, it is only possible via the main menu to change from the map a trip computer and compass or speedometer. Here the forward used elsewhere and back buttons would have been much better to switch between map, trip computer, compass and speedometer at the bottom of the map display.
The navigation works well. The turn-offs are announced twice by sounds and marked on the map with a circle. If you go wrong, the routes will be calculated quickly new and can be adapted to different profiles such as road bike, mountain bike or pedestrian. The entry of destinations and addresses is also ideal solutions. For the car or motorcycle navigation the unit is not suitable, since the routes are limited to 200km distance and no matching profile is provided.
What at first was not working for me, was a pre-planned route on the PC (trip) reproduce long. To anticipate it, exactly, the Teasi but pretty good. What I did not at first know that you necessarily have to begin at the start of the route, since the Navi only want direct to the starting point a. This is in principle also comes in handy, but if you want to enter in the middle of the route, then it does not work. So the route so always plan that the starting point is a few meters away, in a pause, the navigation can not be turned off. Hereby I can live quite well. Otherwise the Teasi with matching profile adheres strictly to the route. If you leave the route, it performs a good back to track. Circular routes are also not a problem if start and end are right together. The distance traveled can also be recorded and stored. The trip information via traveled routes is very well resolved. It appears the height profile, and the most important training data.
The Navi offers two ways to plan new trips that are not to be compared with the comfort and possibilities of Bikemap.net, Naviki or Komoot.de. For one thing, you can specify starting from a starting point on how much time or KM you want to travel. Then a corresponding radius is shown on the map, where you can set individual waypoints. Although this works, is a bit fiddly on the pressure-sensitive display. The second variant is the free route planning. In addition, you can define a start and end point on the map. The Navi then calculates the route. The route can be changed by further intermediate targets according to your wishes. This corresponds exactly to the route planning on the PC. Only the tough moving the map and the inaccurate positioning of waypoints with the thick fingers do that for longer routes little sense. Here would like I said a Route Import much better. For a fast lap with the road bike but that is sufficient.
Then there's the trip computer. He calculates the trip data during the tour only with activated recording. The available information can be nothing to be desired, and the display can be easily adapted to their own ideas. Here also used to switch to the compass and speedometer. Only the map is like saying unreachable.
Unfortunately, that does not have a Teasi electronic compass. That is, one has to move first, so that the direction is detected by the device. This is sometimes a bit problematic if you stop in the woods at a fork to see which way you have to take. Then, when the card in the state would turn in the direction of view, that would be very helpful in this situation.
The PC interface is super simple. You put the USB cable into the USB port and can then choose between "only Laden" and "PC". If you select "PC", then the appear a USB drive on the desktop. About two folders you can then upload or download trips Mileage trips. This is being used by the Mac. The update also takes place in the PC mode. Updates are free of charge, since the Teasi one data from the open source project "Open Street Map" used. Unfortunately the update software does not support MacOS.
Positives:
+ Super price
+ Valent housing
+ Secure and flexible mount
+ Just the right size bike's
+ Good GPS reception
+ Good route guidance
+ Precise navigation along planned trips
+ Sufficient computing power
+ High resolution display
+ Largely good operator guidance
+ Fast map display and zoom
+ Fast route calculation
+ Simple PC interface via USB drive
+ Good representation of the trip computer, compass and speedometer
+ Good representation of the trip information driven routes
+ Free map updates
Negatives:
- No removable battery
- Not ergonomically arranged menu button
- Display difficult to read in direct sunlight (reflected, almost no trans reflection)
- No entry in trips in the middle of the planned route
- Advisable on long trips no permanent backlight
- Call the Trip Computer, compass and speedometer not directly from the map display possible
- Information boxes on the map can not be permanently hidden
- No electronic compass
- Necessary for update Windows PC
Not suitable for car or motorcycle -
Conclusion:
For the money you get a very good bike-Navi, for you have to pay almost twice as much in the competition. The hardware is solid, the high-resolution display and user guidance largely solved well. Navigating along stored trips is working fine. If you still could start on a planned trip route in the middle, would remain nothing to complain about here. Bearing in mind that this device is the first litter of the manufacturer, so one can only express great praise. In future, a removable battery, a menu button on the front panel and an electronic compass would be desirable. Then the unit would be the perfect Fahrradnavi.
Additional first MTB trip in the forest:
So, I have the first mountain bike tour behind me. The first problem I had at the beginning. I had the starting point foolishly placed at a location that was close to a fence, which was not visible on the map. I had to jump almost a goal that the unit took up the pursuit of the route. When planning you have to watch from the fact that the starting point is easy to reach. Here, the software needs to be adapted necessarily so (so) that you can begin tracking the trips on the route.
If the starting point of the trip once found, then the navigation is but exemplary and detours or abbreviations are quickly taken into account in the route. The device calculates when leaving the trips a new route, in which the target again ends on the trip. If you reach this waypoint, automatically the navigation continues along the trip - as it should be. While navigating each trip point (breadcrumbs) is actuated, resulting in very frequent beeping of Navis. The bugged then pretty quickly and I have the navigation sounds off easy - you do not need really.
The card offers a very good orientation, since it is not overloaded with details (practically black / dismissed). But what is a disadvantage that is not in whether it is a single trial or well-maintained dirt road. So I once landed on a completely overgrown path where I would have used a machete.
It is rare, but during the tour actually the sun was shining! Here, however, the display showed significant weaknesses. The transflection does not practically. In addition, the surface reflects very strong. The display is then hardly read, and I had to stop so often. Here my old device from the market leader was significantly better, though not perfect. On shady trails but everything was ok, as long as the backlight was turned on (high power consumption). For the cheap price but the display is acceptable.
