Originally Posted by
philbob57
Just note that phones have limited power sources, so you'd have to do short rides (2-3 hours?) or get an external battery. Also, the phone GPSes aren't as good as, say the Lezyne, Garmin, Polar, Wahoo versions, so your speed and distance numbers are like to be off by what I consider non-trivial amounts. You can get good speed data by using a sensor, but that won't help much with distance.
Depends. I can do a full metric listening to music with my old Note 4, and the 8s it was about 10% of battery to do 30 miles last night.