What appealed to me was the compact design, the possibility of HF via ANT + sensor to operate and especially BLUETOOTH!
After using the device, however, quickly made disillusionment:
1. The Bluetooth function: transferring the distance traveled directly over the iPhone works very well. However, I thought that one can also plan routes on iPad / iPhone and these can then be sent by BT on the Garmin Edge, as it followed the Garmin commercial 'Let the other you "(Youtube) is also shown. After a telephone conversation with Garmin Support, the mildly to it after 30 minutes of waiting in the queue was not very friendly, it is now clear that this is not going function and is also not provided. This is particularly unfortunate because I thought the holiday it is not because the Navi still have to carry a laptop, but trails on the Internet can load the device via the iPad. Too bad.
2. Base Camp: This is the software with which you can plan routes and tracks. You feel transported back to the software of the 90s. Ease of use is virtually non-existent and to plan a route or to change an existing is anything but intuitive. I thought that was also very disappointed with a Garmin software package. The customer commented that it was precisely for people who enjoy it, to deal with it. I am really very IT-savvy and not just ignorant, but actually I prefer to sit on your bike and drive off, as to waste my time with a complicated route planning on the computer at a machine, which is now not exactly cheap. And I must say, there are alternatives: strava just a route planner in the beta version, which is many times easier and more intuitive, as I came with GPSies cope better.
3. Navigation: must be that with a track start exactly at the start and can not begin on the track middle without having to be always navigates to the start, I have more or less accepted. When I let me navigate and a target had entered during the trip, the navigation was more than adventurous. I followed the Navi and had left a signposted bike trail, because I thought that maybe Navi calculates a better route. I was then a steep vineyard navigates through a residential area, which after all had a good training effect, as it was very exhausting. Once at the top it navigated me down again and I was back at the foot of the mountain. While driving the unit fell then also from yet.
So overall I'm especially at the high price but something very disappointed with the device. The Bluetooth functionality only for transmitting the distance traveled on Garmin connect I do not so important, as the inverse function routes to Garmin from iPhone / iPad to surpass. Basecamp should be ported in 2014 or radically reprogrammed and the navigation was in my test very much room for improvement. It seems to me that many people still buy Garmin devices, since there are hardly any (useful) alternatives. About Falk, Bryton, million one reads also different opinions. Perhaps there will soon be a company that recognizes the need and something innovative brings to the market.
