Originally Posted by Seattle Forrest

Solar might be valuable in a watch depending on your needs and how you use it, but isn't very useful in the 1040 for most people. The battery is already phenomenal, almost no one will need more in a single ride, and the solar doesn't add as much as people seem to expect.

On the other hand, if you have a good Garmin watch, a bigger screen is literally the only benefit of an Edge device, and it doesn't use the extra size very well. The map is so annoying to use because of all the zooming it does on its own that it's usually less frustrating to use the map in the watch. The 130 is the sweet spot among Edge devices.