Garmin Edge 1030 to be launched soon? Bigger screen and better battery for 1000 replacement

I'll stick with the 810, it's aight.

I'm on my 3rd 800, 1st died in the very wet Dragon ride of 2011, the 2nd one rusted away in the USB port, now on the 3rd the screen has lost its touch sensitivity on the top right quarter, mostly useable still.  Been following the Karoo but wary of buying a new product shipped from US.

I have had a 705 Edge 8 years, buying to find my way from London to Barcelona. It is brilliant for pre-planned routes and still has very good battery life. I don't use the re-routing options, prefering to plan ahead. If I have to go off route I just use the map to find my way back to the planned route.

My Edge 800 has served me faithfully for six years. It's never crashed, frozen or lost data. Battery life (19 hours quoted I think) is still fantastic and the resistive screen far more practical than new capacitive.

Perhaps people expect too much from their devices? Negative comments always gain more prominence than positive; who writes in to laud a company?

The point is that none of the tech is flawless yet, out of many millions of garmin users some have problems. It says a lot when competitors advertise "better than garmin" rather than advertise their own products

My Garmin 800 is still going strong.  Battery lasts a week of my riding, though I don't often follow a route.  OpenStreetMap for the maps do a good job.

But it's old and it may be time to consider a replacement.  Spending money on Garmin stuff is a distress purchase - 'it's less objectionable than a tomtom for the car', etc.  I don't know why Garmin think adding more social bollocks is good.  And they're increasingly trying to tie you into more Garmin stuff.  No thanks.

I'm looking at Hammerhead Karoo as a replacement and hope they're a bit more responsive than Garmin have proved to be over the years.

I'd love to go for the Elemnt, but what I need is turn-by-turn and proper mapping (navigation, for me, is when I'm away in completely unfamiliar territory, by myself, and I need no ambiguity from breadcrumbs or over exactly which turn out of a choice of 3 to take).

That leaves me with Garmin - fails occasionally but even when my Edge Touring has flipped out right in the middle of overseas solo rides, I've still been able to see the course line plotted on a map, in colour, and followed it.

I think it won't be for another version or two before the Elemnt gives me what I'm after. But by then I might justify another bike computer

(and just to rave about the fenix 5x some more: it's been perfect and easy to follow on long trail runs with loads of different paths, so far... the cynic in me suspects that they can nail navigation and reliability when they want to, for a £600+ product).

I have a Garmin 800, its battery life and basic functionality is perfect, lasting more than 12 hours and records my data very well.  The only thing was mapping and getting routes from other sources.  

I went for the Wahoo Elemnt.  The functionality is so much easier to use even whilst riding.  Navigation routes are a doddle to upload and it seemlessly integrates with Strava.

My old Garmin 800 is going to my daughter.

Different users have different views of different technology sensation!

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Zzzzzz moves on...

Yep, agree with Kevj above.

My 810 was great until about a year ago then any ride with nav that got above 150-200km would most likely cause a crash that would probably lose all the data.

With 50 quid cashback from Wahoo on the elemnt I decided I'd had enough of flaky garmins. I used it on the London-Edinburgh-London last week and the only problem came when I ran it flat. As soon as I connected it to a powerbank it started up, said "recovering ride" counted up to 100% and I got all my data back. So it actually fixed my balls up, rather than Garmin creating a balls up.

Setting the elemnt up on the phone is also a breeze to do and it runs with a powerbank attached. My 810 does that too but likes to turn itself off if the powerbank goes flat because naturally why wouldn't you want it to.

As mentioned above if the bloke with the elemnt took four wromg turns that's down to his reading of it, I followed mine for 1440km on a supplied pair of gpx and it pings and lights up the top row of leds green when you rejoin the course and red when you go wrong. If you create a route with cues then the leds flash white in the direction you need to turn.

In summary, brilliant bit of kit.

I had an Edge touring for a while, and whilst quite good, mapping on the fly using the device was woeful. It's since died and has been replaced with a second hand Bryton 20. Battery didn't diminish past half way on completing a 200km audax the other month. Tells me my speed, distance and time. Perfect!

I will note, that I am now based back where I was brought up so navigation is less of an issue.

That $299 (£299 in UK) for the Karoo is the pre-pre-order price. Retail is £499 which is probably a bit less than retail for the 1030 I'm guessing. I'd be surprised if it's much better in terms of bugs than the 1030 on release, given the relative inexperience of the company and the nature of its software team. Getting navigation right is non-trivial.

Seriously  looking at the Hammerhead Karoo - $299 and will probably do all I need, DCR was quite impressed..

I have had a 810 for a couple of years and a 200 for more than I can remember. The 200 last for over 16 hours (still) and I can get a good 11-12 out of the 810. Sadly, when navigating the 810 can be problematic - sudden freezes, sudden shut down etc. For recording rides without navigation both have been superb and uttelry relaible. So, Garmin people, enough with the gadgetry just get your bloody navigation sorted and then think about the pointless other add-ons. There is little point in having power meter connection, phone sync, message notification etc if, whilst using it it all disappears in the blink of an eye because the bloody unit froze whlist navigating.

Most people waste loads of money on tech gizmos. The companies do a great job telling you what their ever sophisticated products do and why you need to have the latest version... most of the time the argument is rubbish. Like most things in life, befor you buy think well about WHAT YOU NEED rather than what they tell you you need. I love my Garmin 500. Great battery longevity, huge amount of info can be shown, it's fantastically versatile to set it to your preferces and it's very robust and stable. But then again, I don't need maps (I also have my phone with me anyway), I don't want touch screen (sweat droplets changing your screen would piss me off) and I don't want a mini tablet under my nose when I go out for a ride. Horses for courses!

First year of reviews on Wiggle be like "Touch screen is highly tempermental and completely unusable at times. Device often freezes and last weekend crashed losing my whole ride up Mont Ventoux. 16 hours claimed battery is a joke; with everything turned off you'd be lucky to get 8. Definitely not worth £600. I sent it back and got a Wahoo Elemnt. Couldn't be happier".

Probably.

Why is road cc still quoting manufacturers data of 15 hours battery time for Edge 1000 ?

Any ride over 6 hours leaves you needing a powerbank!!!!! and that is with glasnos turned off. The only way to make it last longer is to turn all the mapping/navigation features off which is totally defeating the point. Seriously thinking of switching to element.

Will it be lighter and stiffer than the old model?

Garmin aren't getting any more of my money.  Flaky products and awful support.