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Comment on Garmin Edge 810 In-Depth Review by Rainmaker

Rainmaker — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:40:58 +0000

Yup, once you go somewhere, it’ll click over. I believe it’s at roughly 1,000ft it turns to miles.

Comment on Garmin Edge 810 In-Depth Review by Edward

Edward — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:27:54 +0000

OK, so I have taken the plunge and bought myself an Edge 810….

I have set it up / configured it, but I haven’t actually used it yet.

Please forgive me if this is a stupid question, but I want to measure my speed and distance in miles / mph. I have set the units to “statute” as opposed to metric.

On the display page, the speed is read to display in “mph”, but the distance is displayed in “feet” – rather than miles….

Have I done something wrong here, or will the display measure distance in miles once I start cycling?

This is probably a moronic question, but if someone could explain this to me I’d REALLY appreciate it ….

thank you!

Comment on Suunto Ambit 2 and 2S In-Depth Review by Francesco Casali

Francesco Casali — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:05:33 +0000

Finally I receives the Ambit 2 black. Today I tried it on treadmill connecting in a couple of second to a garmin foot pod. It works greatly. The activity “treadmill” was created in Movescount personalizing every screen according to my tastes: really easy and self-intuitive. Really pleased also by Suunto HR belt: using FirstBeat I have finally obtained “Error Percentage = 0%”. I used garmin and polar HR belt and Wtek arm HR sensor with a lot of problems (Firstbeat error percentage from 18% to 65%). I connected easily to Firstbeat and also with Sport Tracks import of data was easy and simple.

After that I tried to activate GPS: it find position in 15 second while, with Garmin FR 610, in the same place and not at the first time, I had to wait at least a couple of minutes.
I’ve some problem to understand FuseAlti but I need to read better istruction booklet and temperature (wrong data).

Tomorrow I will try to run with GPS but, at the moment, I’m really pleased and I wish to thank Rainmaker for the perfect review that induce me to buy this watch.

Comment on Garmin Forerunner 405 in depth review by Rainmaker

Rainmaker — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:56:03 +0000

No, the USB cable is just charging, no data connection wires there. Sorry!

Comment on Garmin Edge 810 In-Depth Review by Rainmaker

Rainmaker — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:55:40 +0000

The Edge 800/810 enumerates as a mass storage device, so you’re good there. Then you can just create the GPX file and plop it on the Edge to run it.

Comment on Garmin Forerunner 405 in depth review by Mj

Mj — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:59:26 +0000

wow, very cool review, thanks! Hey i was wondering though, I lost my ant + key.. Do you know if the usb cable will do to transfer my data?