Originally Posted by
Urthwhyte
An iPhone, Android, S60, or $smartphonePlatformOfChoice doesn't hold a candle to a dedicated device like the Edge or Forerunner series when it comes to serving as a bike computer. I personally use a Forerunner 305, and compared to carrying my 200+g phone strapped to my arm or in my rear pockets it's leaps and bounds better. Get the 705, you won't be dissapointed
this can't be said enough. I'm an iphone user (coming from a long, long, long line of winmo phones) and haven't found anything that holds a candle to my relatively pedestrian edge 305. os4 may let you idle a mapping application, but updates to support this are slow and not very common just yet. the ease of use, ease of datalogging, etc, just makes the garmin an easy choice. I love my convergent devices, but this is definitely a job for a dedicated device/unitasker
