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GARMIN 010-00447-20 Edge 305HR Bicycle Monitor With GPS & Barometric Sensor | |||
  | 80% Recommended by our customers. Manufacturer: Garmin Catalog: CE Media: Electronics Includes batteries: 1 Model: 010-00447-20 Box size: Garmin Part #010-00447-20 Ean: 0846330000811 Upc: 053759051793 Native resolution: 128 x 160 Special Features: Distance, Elevation, Speed  Tip: compare prices with similar consumer electronics |
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 Written on November 17, 2007 Summary: Think twice about buying this product! I have the edge 305 and the forerunner 305! Both suffer from the same problem. They quit working! I bought the Forerunner first. I thought it was a nice product. It gave me all the readings I wanted. Then one day it just stopped working! In a couple of days it started again, but my lesson had been learned! Support was useless. I did not want to be with out my HRM so I bought the Edge 305. I was thinking it was a better product! True it has a few more viewable functions. I liked that! The screen is bigger! I liked that. The GPS is good! I like that! Soon I was using the Edge 305 all the time! It (the edge 305) has just quit on me for the second time! I am pissed! The features I like are nice but Garmin is not the only HRM out there that has GPS! Even though I was not that happy with my Polar HRM I plan on gong back to them because of the lack of relability of Garmins HRM! BEWARE BEFORE BUYING THIS PRODUCT! If you can not afford more than one unit you will be stuck when it stops working!  Written on November 12, 2007 Summary: Amazing piece The GPS gets a signal indoor ! I have two more GPS devices at home, none of them ever did it. My mio P350 sometimes even looses the signal outdoors. But this thing never lost a signal. The main drawback is that the HR strap must be really wet before it reads your BPM correctly. And I also don't like the attached PC software. But for the price, it's doing much more than I have expected. A friend just got his Polar for the same money, and he doesn't even have a GPS... Written on November 10, 2007 Summary: Accurate,User friendly and Fun I have been using the Garmin Edge 305 for the past month for mountain biking, riding 3-4 days a week on average and have used it on a gruelling 3 day 150 km trip. I find it a great training tool for mountain biking. Easy to set up and use. Accurate for all parameters except calories. The Motion Based software is simple to use, fun, and a great way to share workouts with riding buddies, borrow courses from others and review workouts visually and physiologically . It would be nice if it would be possible to share the info from Garmin Training Center software as well. My only regret is not having purchased the device earlier. Written on September 3, 2007 Summary: Nice unit, poor software [Roadie perspective] Despite a large number of user and site reviews to the contrary I believe this item is let down by poor software design and quality. The Edge products are something of a 'hook' item in that they are sufficiently crippled out of the box to require subscription to online services or other products. Having used the unit for about 3000km now I think I can offer some addition perspective to what is already out there... Don't get me wrong the concept of a GPS based cycle computer is great - I regularly and easily swap it between the bikes I frequently use without wires or calibration. The unit feature set is also pretty comprehensive, in fact one has to be quite judicious in display setup options so as not be overwhelmed by data. The GPS chip is plenty good for road, quick(ish) acquisition and tracking sufficient for speedo accuracy etc. With the good stuff out of the way... But - and for me this is considerable but - the unit firmware is flakey (you will have to figure out how to do a soft reset as the unit will freeze up on you), and the Training Center software is even worse. Here come the hooks, for me (in NZ) the basemaps included for course planning are practically useless (though there is a way to create your basemaps own if you have the time and data), the cost of correcting this the Garmin way is horrendous [h1]. A great alternative, however exists in MapMyRide (though you don't get to insert course waypoints). But you still have to resolve the following... Getting data in and out of the unit becomes more problematic over time, in fact I have installed Training Center on 3 separate PCs (all of the XP variety) and all of them stopped receiving data from the GPS with an error sooner or later. Sometimes they would receive sometimes they wouldn't - final resolution was a complete uninstall (AND manual user dir delete). The alternative is use of the MotionBased site, (2) though paid subscription is required [h2] for a full suite of services. An alternative exists again in the form of SportTracks, a great donorware piece of software (no affiliation). Other minor gripes include the usual - HRM interference, at times poor barometric related elevation performance - especially in the wet [don't even think about it in heavy rain]. GPS related gripes - the Course following option is a little flakey if created via software as opposed to ride history. Lapped or complex courses (retracing sections) also problematic - a moving snake option highlighting the current, say 1km, section of the course would alleviate this somewhat though. Finally you'd think you would be able to 1. insert an autolap point on a course *before* you rode it (like a lapping waypoint), and 2. insert more than one autolap points. But no, you cannot achieve either of these with the 305 Edge. In summary, yes the Edge 305 is full featured and bloody convenient for multiple bikes. After you get the unit turned on, the on bike features even work pretty well. The great letdown comes when you want to download, analyse and share all that data you collected out on the road, or heaven forbid do some planning before you hit the road to take advantage of a GPS platform. If you are prepared for multiple workarounds on the SW side of things the Edge 305 is still a great option, if not its power (and potential) is wasted and you'd be better off with a Polar or similar speedo. Edge 305 Firmware 3.20 Training Center Version 3.2.3 Hope this helps. Ron ps. I wouldn't even think of dropping money on an Edge 605/705 until these SW issues are sorted. More bug testers and actual cyclists involved in the next edition please Garmin. Written on August 23, 2007 Summary: Just Works! So far no problems with the unit after a month or so of use. No satellite drops, unit functions superbly. Here in New Mexico we do have more open space, so maybe that contributes to the stability of satellite connection. May add the cadence module at a later date, but for right now it's good. |
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| Our price | - | $14.24 | - | $250.97 | $177.09 | $15.00 |
| List price | $379.15 | $20.56 | $59.99 | $319.99 | $299.99 | $44.85 |
| Lowest used price | $263.14 | $10.73 | $40.50 | $300.56 | $243.00 | $23.49 |
| Refurbished price | - | - | - | $193.95 | $184.89 | - |
| Catalog | CE | CE | CE | CE | CE | CE |
| Color variation | - | Black | - | - | - | - |
| Media | Electronics | Accessory | Accessory | Electronics | Electronics | Accessory |
| Includes batteries | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Model | 010-00447-20 | 010-10725-00 | 010-10644-00 | 010-00447-30 | 010-00467-00 | 0101071800 |
| Box size | Garmin Part #010-00447-20 | - | Garmin Part #010-10644-00 | Garmin Part #010-00447-30 | - | - |
| Ean | 0846330000811 | 0753759054755 | 0653886002028 | 0753759053574 | 0753759051945 | 0753759054816 |
| Upc | 053759051793 | 753759054755 | 653886002028 | 753759053574 | 753759051945 | 753759054816 |
| Material type | - | Plastic | - | - | - | - |
| Native resolution | 128 x 160 | - | - | 128x160 | 160x100 | - |
| Special Features | Distance, Elevation, Speed | - | - | Distance, Speed, Elevation, Altimeter, Ascent/descent rate, Electronic compass, Time/date | Speed, Distance | - |
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