Originally Posted by
seajaye
I initially wanted to get a Wahoo, but after reading a lot of the reviews, it seems like it needs to be tethered with your phone. Even if not needs, then maybe it's just simply designed to heavily lean on your phone. One of the things I love(d) about Garmin is that they can be totally stand-alone units. I don't want navigation to fail because I went out of cellular range or something silly like that.
No you don't need your phone or a cell signal to rely on navigation. That is misinformation by people who have never used one (or to be more precise, don't understand how it works). The phone app is there to make setup easy and to link all your data to other apps like Strava, RideWithGPS, etc... This is done one time, after that it's all automatic. The phone app has zero to do with using the Bolt or with navigation.