Originally Posted by
raqball
You will need phone with you if you want to see the tracked / mapped route of your ride. Without a phone, all you will get is speed and distance that is logged from the included sensor. If you have a compatible cadence and HR sensor then you will get that data as well without a phone.
Correct! There is no GPS receiver in the Mini so GPS route tracking is done with the phone app. Once you have set up your pages for the Mini using the Wahoo Elemnt app, you can use any BTLE compatible phone app you want to use. The only thing is that you will not be able to get text and phone call notifications on the Mini unless you are connected to the Wahoo Elemnt app, which can also do GPS tracking.
I'm thinking that folks are expecting this to be a small version of the Elemnt or Bolt but this isn't the case. As previously mentioned, it's nothing but an Ant+ cycling computer that does not require a phone for basic functions. But because the sensors are dual band, you can use the BTLE signals from the sensors to connect to your phone and use an app to do GPS tracking, live tracking, turn-by-turn, etc.