Originally Posted by
nerys
well at least you added the and having a new phone but failed to mention the $500 or more price tag for that new phone.
I suspect that ("soon")
every new phone, regardless of price, is going to support BT4. There's no reason not to (if they support BT at all).
Originally Posted by
nerys
and where do you keep getting this 5 hours CRAP from. why do you keep pulling that clean out of your butt?
From you (of course).
Originally Posted by
nerys
my mytrek armband HRM is regular bt (one of the few) sure it only goes for 5 hours but seriously. how many of us go more than 5 hours straight?
Originally Posted by
nerys
with the 8amp pack I suggested (wee larger than 2 AA batteries) you could run MONTHS AND MONTHS between charges. probably have to charge ONCE at the start of each season.
2 AA batteries is too large. Way, way too large. You can get months out of a single coin battery.
Originally Posted by
nerys
as for $60? I can show you a cadences speed sensor in bt4 for $40.
Even better (that makes my argument stronger)! Show me!
Originally Posted by
nerys
MOST droids have a ambient light sensor to auto adjust the display brightness based on the ambient light level.
Show me!
Originally Posted by
nerys
there is no real reason EXCEPT for aesthetics to NOT have "wires" on the bike.
It's
dopey to go through the effort of adding wires to a
wireless system (especially, when it's easy to avoid the wires).
Originally Posted by
nerys
do you really think I give a monkey butt if it has a few extra wires or a deck of cards sized little thing hanging on it somewhere?
You are
one person. You don't make a market.
Originally Posted by
nerys
you do realizes wires are cheap right? pennies? I can goto the dollars store and with $1.06 get enough wire to wire up 30 bikes.
So what? They are unnecessary.
Originally Posted by
nerys
its the independent transmitting calculating sensors that cost a lot of money. wires eliminates that. makes it CHEAP.
$40 eliminates all those silly wires
and the big-assed block.
Originally Posted by
nerys
guesses? sure but VERY educated guesses. I actually think this could be chinese built for $10 to $15 if the software task was taken up by the open source community.
Why would the "open source community" be interested in this crappy market?
Originally Posted by
nerys
now if you already HAVE this kind of phone and service GREAT but if you don't your talking about a potential $3000 or more in "costs" just to get bt4? or wait a couple years for cheaper phones to come out.
Do you really think that it's going to take
less time to have the "open source community" and the "Chinese" to get a product into your hands?
Originally Posted by
nerys
this kind of upgrade is "permanent" so thats around another $2500.
You can buy a phone outright for $600.
Originally Posted by
nerys
you could just buy the phone outright used without service but now your looking at $500 $400 if your lucky.
might as well buy the garmin at that point.
Go for it! (But it's going to be hard to make calls on the Garmin!)