Originally Posted by
chaadster
Yes, Garmin stinks. They're all buggy at some point, and have piss-poor user interfaces that are more akin to late '90s PDAs (remember those?) than modern smartphones, which absolutely make Garmins look ridiculous.
Engineering is a compromise.
Smart phones (modern "flagship" models) are much, much faster computers with more memory than the Garmin Edge units (even, I suspect, the 1000). That's great. Smart phones are also much bigger with worse battery life and screens that are hard to read in sunlight. That's no so great.
The bugginess is unfortunate (especially since the hardware doesn't seem that different between the models). I suspect part of the issue is that the Garmins are memory constrained (meaning Garmin has to work to cram new features into too-limited amount of memory).