Originally Posted by
njkayaker
A dedicated unit does what it does "easily" but what it does is much more limited than a smartphone (a smartphone is a really a fairly general-purpose computer, with the attendant complexity of options).
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Puzzled as to what exactly a smart phone does better then a dedicated unit ?. We are talking about the functions of a cycling computer in this thread, so a smart phone would have to have additional cycling specific functions that a dedicated cycling GPS unit doesn't have.
Never seen that.
What I've seen is that smart phone app's are typically free or very low cost, so there's the advantage of pricing, as well they then replicate what a lot of Garmin units provide.