Originally Posted by
Seattle Forrest
Pairing between my Android phone and my Garmin Fenix 3 watch is about 85 % reliable. When I look at the Garmin forums for the F3, it looks like some people have great luck with pairing and other people do not. For what it's worth, Bluetooth pairing between my phone and car isn't completely trouble free, either.
Yeah, pairing between my smartphone and bluetooth on my car gets buggy too. It seems to drop signal quite a bit.
Originally Posted by
Marcus_Ti
Turn-by-turn navigation on the E1K is still broken. Not fixed. In April,. Garmin pushed v3.0 firmware which broke their own HRM strap pairing-and it took them a whopping 2 months to fix their own hardware (v3.10). BT still iffy, especially iPhone users. And that is their flagship unit.
Smartphones do everything the Edges do, and do it better...aside from battery life screen on and durability. Once those two are put to bed Garmin is going the way of RadioShack. I say that as someone on his 3rd and hopefully last Edge.
I've seen a lot of issues with people using their phones and running the strava app. Usually, the gps sends them into a lake or just stops working and reconnects at the end of the ride, so they have all this data that doesn't make any sense. It just doesn't seem to work as well as the garmin units do. Smartphones don't do everything a garmin edge unit does better...at least not in my experience.