Originally Posted by
RPK79
If you're not relying on sensors you can just slip the garmin in your pocket and capture the data like that. You can't see your speed and mileage as you ride, but you can't with your phone either.
Good point, makes Garmin less unattractive.
Originally Posted by
Hermes
1. A lot of talk with no experimental data.
2. Written from perspective of cars, not bikes.
3. Discusses tracking only (my phone usually can tell which side of the street I'm on - can't imagine needing more accuracy than that); doesn't discuss elevation data at all, which was my point of contention concerning relative accuracy. The issue is whether altimeters are better than whatever the phone uses in Strava... I presume some kind of data table for coordinates.
Got anything else?