Long Tom

Yeah, but then you are stuck with a Galaxy!




I was responding to a post above that said short battery life on their iPhone with Strava. I did a Century with mine; considerably more than 4 hours. Still had ~25% battery left. Plus... then after that, it's still an iPhone, not some off-brand wanko copy.

RPK79

So your iPhone will give you about 5.33 hours on a charge. My Garmin will go 14+ hours and when I'm done riding I can still make phone calls and check facebook.

Long Tom

No, I think it'd run Strava for about 6-7 hours if started with a full charge and run all the way down, which I don't normally do. To know exactly I'd have to run highly technical experiments 'n stuff.

I was using Cyclometer on the Century, not Strava. We stopped for lunch and I stopped it at that time. It was on for at least 6 hours though.

Clearly, an iPhone is not a perfect cycling computer/GPS. However since it's also a phone, Internet browser, and iPod I forgive it.

Gramercy

Does the tree cover affect your current speed or routes? Are they ever blacked out due to no signal?

RPK79

Those are issues I've seen with phone based GPS and have not encountered with a Garmin. Most good road cycling routes will take you through dead zones.

dave1442397

I rarely see issues on the Garmin, but you can tell it has lost the signal every now and again because the speed reading will drop to single digits and slowly work back up to where it was before. I need to check the sending unit on the chainstay...I replaced the battery but I don't seem to be getting readings from it.

Seattle Forrest

I use a program that adjusts the time stamp in my Garmin's GPX files. I rode across America, it took me 20 minutes.

Chi_Z

Samsung S4 active. waterproof ftw

DXchulo

That's pretty fast. You should do RAAM this year.

shoota 

Garmin 500

mtalinm

this reminds me why I hate iPhone owners- dweebs.

I usually do the Garmin705, but when I don't have it I use Cyclometer on my windows phone.

Long Tom

This reminds me why non-iPhone users amuse me.... an inferiority complex makes them sooo easy to bait with comments that anyone (who's judgement wasn't clouded by the inferior wanko iphone copy in their pocket) would see right through.......

Element GT

Galaxy S3

It's been waterproof enough...so far

mtalinm

you're making my point.

there is no inferiority complex. you are welcome to enjoy your small screen.

I don't disagree that Android is a ripoff of the iPhone UI, but this is not at all true of winphone.

Long Tom

I was just playing around uup until now, but now I'm serious as a heart attack.

Nothing running Windows- nothing- will ever have a mission-critical part in my life again. Ever ever ever. **** Windows and the bloated buggy horse it rode in on.

Now back to goofing around. You've got, what, 44 odd little apps available for that.... thing?

idc

^ this

Mansram01

That comment may have made sense like a year old or so... When the copy surpasses the original and the iPhone starts copying features from Google, what does that say? New boss in town. Don't feel bad. Icons are cool to stare at...

Long Tom

My daughter's boyfriend had terrible luck with several Android phones, both hardware and software.

For all I know, you are old as I am and more computer-savvy. But speaking strictly for myself, I had my first PC in 1985 or so (Amiga), and was working in a computer store and studying CS at that time as well. I have a boatload of PC's since then. We have two laptops running Windows in the house that are borderline unusable. In fact the one with Vista IS unusable. My wife's HP is rapidly becoming unusable as the POS that is Windows bloats and clogs up and incessantly updates. Oh but we could be doing this and that and this.... gag me. The Vista on our Dell laptop is an absolute embarrassment of an OS. I get irate just thinking about it. The machine has been basically unusable for years. It won't even start up reliably- it goes into "recovery mode" about half the time on regular start ups after being shut down properly.... it flat sucks.

Contrast that with any Mac running OSX or above. Rock solid and it doesn't change. It doesn't let everyone and their brother into your OS and gradually degrade as everyone gets a piece of your computer. It just works.

I made my living for years on a G4 Mac running ProTools (very processor-intensive recording software). I'm talking 8, 10, 12 hour days. I can remember ONE ProTools crash. OSX contained the crash, stayed "alive", and in fact fixed the whole situation in a couple minutes. It was frankly astounding.

My iPhone 4 has been in my pocket for several years and still works great. It's my primary means of Internet interface. I'm typing this post on it. In that time I think it's crashed (software) once, maybe twice. To say I'm a fan is an understatement. The stability of the thing is amazing. The hardware is durable.

The wannabes can slap fancy gewgaws on their copies but they aren't Apple, not even in the same ballpark. Apple has a huge track record of providing me stable, high quality computing devices.

mtalinm

last I checked, we were talking about mobile devices (though I suppose you could install a GPS receiver in a desktop computer and drag it behind your bike in a trailer).

anyway, you are again making my point about how many macolytes have this insatiable need to tell the 90% of the world that doesn't use Crapple devices how stupid they are.

one reason I held off switching to winphone was all the tech reviewers groaning like you do about the lack of apps. I did not find it to be an issue. Strava was the only thing I couldn't find, but then Cyclometer does the job (and uploads to Strava nicely). so that's a workaround. I wouldn't expect Strava to ship a winphone version anytime soon (I know the CEO). as far as I can tell they are mostly focused on the U.S. market where iOS devices have a much larger share than is true worldwide (12-15% and dropping, last I saw; winphone is 4-5% and growing; Android is the juggernaut at 80ish%).

Long Tom

I'm not calling anyone stupid (not really I mean). It's all good.

But having used an iPhone since they came out I've got absolutely zero reason to switch, and if I did, I wouldn't use a "winphone" if they paid me. I've been ****ed by Microsoft for the last time. And as I said, the fact that my iPhone is a very stable, smart, device that takes care of it's business without drama is exactly in line with my experience with multiple Mac's running OSX. Simply excellent software and high-quality hardware.

If that makes me a fanboi, so be it. I prefer "more highly evolved being", but.....

YOJiMBO20

I use my Garmin 500. For hikes and (only when I'm desperate for exercise) runs I'll use my iPhone as I won't be out for hours on end.

I used to use a portable USB charger and my phone for rides, but got tired of it (the charger) not holding a full charge.

mtalinm

There you go again. I'm done here.

peaches123

Well, that escalated quickly.

RPK79

Well, we can't dispute solid anecdotes like this one.

Long Tom

I know the kid well; it's not anecdotal for me. He had numerous issues, both hardware and software, with several Android phones.

I DGAF what phone anyone uses. It is pretty funny that the dude coming after MY device, is using one that won't run Strava.

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