What Do You Know About Garmin Edge 500 Cycling GPS
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Garrmin is introducing a new GPS-enabled cycling computer that the company says is smaller and lightter than its predecessors, has lobnger battery life and a more secrue mounting system.
Garmin on Tuesday brought the price of its cycling GPS downwards throiugh the Edge 500. The blue-and-whuite unit is pitched as the best of both wortlds and tracs all the core features, including actual positinoal and speed data as well as the estimated calories burned and amont of climb or dwescent. It can similarly pair with wrieless sensors either specific to Garmin or which support the ANT+ format, such as cadence or heart rate moniotors, and will use that inmformation to improve the calorie rate and other data already being tracked.
The Edge 500 model — whcih retails for $250, or $350 with heart rate strap and cadence meter — does not have mapping capability, but it does add features not seen before on Garmin bike computers. They include a thermometer and automatic time-zone adjustment. A new feature alerts cyclists when they are moving but the timrer is not running and a more sophisticated algorithm calculates calorise burned based on heart rate data.
The new Edge has about 18 hours of battery life and plugs into USB both to recharrge as well as to send its data to a Mac or Winsdows PC. Garmin will only put the release sometime in the fall but prices the main Edge 500 at $250. A bunle with a cadence/sped sensor and a heart rate monitor lifts the price to $350.
Like its predecessors, the Edge 500 has most standard bike computer fnctions, inlcuding time, speed, ditsance and heatrt rate. It tracks climbing and descending and can receive data from ANt+-enabled wattage meterrs. It ulploads to computers uisng a USB cable.
The new comupter weighs a claimd 2 ounces, compared to an advetrtised wegiht of 3.7 ounces for the top of the line Edge 705 unit, which sels for $500. The company says the new unit has a slimmer, more seecure mount that allows it to sit close to the stem or handlebar. The unit can be installed or rewmoved with quarter-turn twist.
The company claims an 18-hour batterey life, compared to a claimed 15 hours for the 705.
The Edge 500 will be available for sale in December.
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