Garmin Edge 810 and Edge 510 released

[jabberwocky]

@rcannon100 44395 wrote:

And then there was this……

Garmin Shares Tumble As Q4 Results Miss Expectations

The interesting part (to me):

Automotive/Mobile segment decreased 25% to $437 million.
Outdoor decreased 2% to $119 million.
Fitness, the primary bright spot, increased 10% to $104 million.
Aviation fell 2% to $70 million.
Marine declined 9% to $39 million.

Maybe this means Garmin will put some more R&D into the fitness department…

[SDAyres]

I have the 810. (Didn’t have the 800). The cell phone integration is nice. I can invite my wife to “follow” me on the ride via her computer at home. She can tell where I’m at. This is a nice safety issue when I’m doing longer rides in the countryside. It’s also nice when I bike down my home street and she and the kids are already waiting for me because they tracked me on the map.

The weather alerts needs to be tweaked. During one ride, it kept warning me every five minutes that there was a tornado warning (which was for later in the day, if I remember correctly). After I ignore the weather notice once, it should stay ignored. I hope they fix this.

– Shannon

[mstone]

@jabberwocky 44398 wrote:

Maybe this means Garmin will put some more R&D into the fitness department…

The problem with big companies trying to downsize is that they have all the expenses (offices, layers of VPs, etc) of a big company, but the income of a little company. It’s unlikely that the extra $10M from fitness products can fill the gaping hole of the $150M reduction in car GPSs. So maybe they’ll pump money into fitness R&D to make a few more 10s of millions in that segment over the next few years, but the market would probably be happier if they simply milk the auto segment until it’s dead (cutting R&D costs to boost the margin) and then liquidate whatever’s left (sell the name to some company overseas).

[rcannon100]

Someone tweeted this. Have not used it yet. If it works – it would be sweet

Convert Google Maps directions into Garmin Courses

http://winthefight.org/cuegle/

[Jason B]

I wish the 510 was BT4, for i just can’t justify the extra price of the 810. I see all this stuff going BT eventually. I know it’s trivial but I hate connecting stuff. Might have to go with the Wahoo RFLKT for now, but I am not sure if I am going need all wahoo sensors for it ( cadence and heart). Would be nice if I could still use my garmin sensors. Also my pipe dream has me owning a power meter someday, and unfortunately they are all still ant+. Might have to sit back and see how this plays out in a year. I see wahoo poised to be making a BT power-something-or-other soon. Their Kickr is dreamy.

[Tim Kelley]

@Jason B 44849 wrote:

I wish the 510 was BT4, for i just can’t justify the extra price of the 810. I see all this stuff going BT eventually. I know it’s trivial but I hate connecting stuff. Might have to go with the Wahoo RFLKT for now, but I am not sure if I am going need all wahoo sensors for it ( cadence and heart). Would be nice if I could still use my garmin sensors. Also my pipe dream has me owning a power meter someday, and unfortunately they are all still ant+. Might have to sit back and see how this plays out in a year. I see wahoo poised to be making a BT power-something-or-other soon. Their Kickr is dreamy.

FYI–the new crank based Stages PM is ANT+ and BT Smart: http://www.stagescycling.com/stagespower-tech-specs

[Jason B]

^^^^^
Zionks!!! $699 for a power BT4 crank! Wow, that may need to be the next buy. That close to half the price of an ant crank.

[DaveK]

@Jason B 44926 wrote:

^^^^^
Zionks!!! $699 for a power BT4 crank! Wow, that may need to be the next buy. That close to half the price of an ant crank.

…for a crank that only measures power from your left leg.

[Tim Kelley]

Jury is still out. I’m close, but may just end up with another powertap.

[KLizotte]

I just bought my first Garmin GPS unit (the 800 no less).

Last night I downloaded the latest North American City Navigator map to the microSD card (which I bought separately).

Will the Garmin automatically start using the City Navigator information without me doing anything else? The unit came pre-bundled with a base map in the unit’s resident memory but I am unclear how it uses the two maps, esp given that one is in the unit’s memory and the other is on a micro-SD card.

Does the City Navigator info override the base map?

I’ve only gone on one ride with the GPS thus far. I didn’t try out it’s navaid features; was only focused on the basics for that ride. Was super easy to upload to Strava and have already created a new, untried route using MapMyRide and downloaded it to the GPS.

Thanks for your help!

[Tim Kelley]

@KLizotte 47300 wrote:

I just bought my first Garmin GPS unit (the 800 no less).

Last night I downloaded the latest North American City Navigator map to the microSD card (which I bought separately) in the Garmin unit.

Will the Garmin automatically start using the City Navigator information without me doing anything else? The unit came pre-bundled with a base map in the unit’s resident memory but am unclear how it uses the two maps, esp given that one is in the unit’s memory and the other is on a micro-SD card.

Does the City Navigator info override the base map?

I’ve only gone on one ride with the GPS thus far. I didn’t try out it’s navaid features; was only focused on the basics for that ride. Was super easy to upload to Strava and have already created a new, untried route using MapMyRide and downloaded it to the GPS.

Thanks for your help!

If you have added it correctly to the Garmin then it should automatically pick up the base map. Did you install it to the SD card? If it doesn’t work, or you don’t like it, there is the (free!) Open Street Map which I’ve heard has even better coverage of this area and even has a lot of unofficial trails and connector cut throughs. Might be worth checking that out as well…

[jabberwocky]

The more detailed map on the SD card will override the built in maps. The built in maps are pretty much useless (they only have major highways).

I hate to say it, but you should have foregone the Garmin maps and just downloaded the OpenStreetMap database for free. Its much more useful.

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