Originally Posted by
wipekitty
Three miles into today's ride...and I dropped my phone. It is dead. Bricked. A new one is on order, but will not be in until Friday. All the good backup smart phones have been donated to our teenager and her friends.
I think I'm more annoyed by not having my Strava app than not having a phone, which is sad. That said, it was nice to go for a road ride without a performance-tracking device. I might try it again sometime.
I swear I hit 45MPH on that descent, but I'll never know.
This is why I think a Garmin and a ~$99 snappy cam are better than using my $700 phone for as a bike computer.
I've landed on the Garmin so hard it popped off the mount and went skittering down the road. Outside of some scratches the thing really seems indestructible. And who cares if my Nikon A300 takes a bounce. I can replace it if needed.