Originally Posted by
chaadster
The Garmin 520 appears to be at the top of the heap right now, although I was hoping ELEMNT would deliver, but it doesn't. How, or why, they would release it without any nav is beyond me.
The navigation stuff is hard. Especially in a device that is supposed to be cheapish, small, and last a long time. Garmin is a leader in navigation and it's hard for them to get it completely right on the cycling units.
Originally Posted by
chaadster
I really don't get why phones do a better job of navigating than dedicated nav systems! Seriously, we have both Garmin and TomTom units at work, and they are so clumsy to use, usually I just pull out my iPhone and use that, either native Maps, or Waze, choosing one or the other depending on whether I want to get conditions alerts or not. Either is vastly superior to the dedicated units from a UI perspective.
The phones do better because they are much faster computers with much more memory.
Routes on google/waze/etc are not even calculated on the device.