Originally Posted by
dmanthree
All true, but when you have a phone in some sort of protection with the screen live for the whole ride, well, it dies too soon and overheats, as well. I have an iPhone 8 and even that didn't work for me on longer rides.
BTW, I'm one of the exceptions who only has one phone, provided by my company. And they take the old ones back...
Well you don't have to leave the screen on the whole time. Many phones have a feature where you tap the screen to turn it on. Use one of those and keep the screen off and just tap it to see the display. It'll last you for a week. And it'll record your route just fine with the screen off. The one I use lasts about 3 hours with the screen on constantly, and literally a week with the screen off.
Also you want to pick a phone with a good size battery in good working condition. Some phones have tiny batteries. Some phones have huge ones.
So any phone will work. But some phones work a little better than others depending on what you want to do.