Aushiker wrote:RonK wrote:Strava compatibility rates a big fat zero with me...If the battery life is indeed 16 hours then being able to charge on the go is not important either.
That is fine Ron for you, (a) I am not you and (b) I shared from my perspective and I suspect given the large Strava user base, a lot of other cyclists who would probably not bother jumping over from Garmin for this reason alone and a camera which is well a gimmick more than anything else. Also going by the video you linked to this is all about training ... very much the Strava market.
They need to sell more than one unit to you to survive you know
As to the battery if I am running a dynamo for example, being able charge on the go is a feature which is good to have and probably also for riders such as those on Audax rides and the like. Not everyone wants to carry battery packs or for that matter may have more than one item to charge overnight so again being able to charge on the go is handy. Given you can do this with the Garmin, it is simply another reason not to jump the fence.
Magellan's units have it seems to have been market flops; has anyone here for example beside you brought one or use one? Would be curious to know if they are in fact anything close to the size of the Garmin market. Acer needs to do better and be smarter than Magellan.
The choice of OSM maps is differently a start; the possible lack of ANT+ (only mentions Bluetooth HRM) is not.
I don't see this device being all about training at all - in fact it appears to have only basic training features ala the Cyclo 505, and no mention of the advanced training features most Garmin users are looking for. The video makes it pretty clear to me at least that the features are aimed at social networking. However, this is the
touring forum we are posting in and my post and comments are made in the touring context.
Whatever, gpx is the standard output format so even is Strava support is not fully integrated it is most likely you'll be able to upload the data.
Yes, there are quite a few Cyclo users on the forum, you don't see them post much about it here because there is another forum dedicated to the Cyclo. But it has been allowed to die a slow death due to apparent indifference and a complete lack of support from Magellan, which is a shame because its navigation leaves Garmin's for dead.
So far as charging on the fly goes, this might work for you but I tried it on tour last year and it didn't work very well without some sort of cache battery, particularly in hillier terrain where it's difficult to maintain sufficient speed. Charging an auxiliary battery such as the Anker Zolo is not so much affected by voltage fluctuations and does not require the device to be open to the elements either. The Zolo has ports to recharge two devices at the same time.
Oh, and the web page and the video makes it clear that Ant+ is supported.
Certainly Acer need to do better than Magellan, but they won't do it by creating a Garmin clone.