Anyone use phone GPS for biking?

[Aggie_Ama]

Maybe at $5.99/month I am going to have to be the guinea pig for the board. I could try it for a month, I guess?

[chicago]

I am purchasing a Garmin Edge 705 very soon

[Aggie_Ama]

Well my lack of about $600 bucks is why I am thinking $6 is more my budget. Plus I am going to wait for them to fix all the crud they can't seem to get right on them because I have zero patience.

[uforgot]

I had ATT navigator for a one month trial. Decided I wasn't paying for internet on my phone just for the GPS. I have my son's garmin nuvi right now and it seems to do the same thing the ATT did. No speed or anything, but I have a computer on my bike anyway. Those nuvis run from $100-$200. way cheaper than the $35 month internet/navigator. If you already have the net on the phone, then the $5 per month is certainly reasonable!

[BabyBlueNTulsa]

I haven't heard about Curve specific GPS application stuff like for the iPhone (MapMyRide has an iphone app that i hear works okay). But..maybe it does have something like that for free like iPhone does. ???


I picked up my 705 from CompUPlus for a little under $400 last year (the HR monitor version)...and then later got the street maps for $100 from Garmin.

Those puppies don't have to cost you an arm and a leg.. (though $500's bad enough, I guess! just not as bad as it could have been)

[CycleTherapy]

I use an iPhone and an application called RunKeeper (It has options for cycling, walking and hiking too). It has two levels; a free version or a Pro @ $9.99 version. The Pro gives you the added feature of an audio feedback. Using the iPhone's GPS it tracks your route, time, speed/pace, distance. Further it downloads the info. automatically to a website: http://www.runkeeper.com/

It is an awesome application, also MapMyRide is available as an iPhone application. I prefer the RunKeeper. With the iPhone I really have no need for something like a Garmin.

[chicago]

I haven't heard about Curve specific GPS application stuff like for the iPhone (MapMyRide has an iphone app that i hear works okay). But..maybe it does have something like that for free like iPhone does. ???


I picked up my 705 from CompUPlus for a little under $400 last year (the HR monitor version)...and then later got the street maps for $100 from Garmin.

Those puppies don't have to cost you an arm and a leg.. (though $500's bad enough, I guess! just not as bad as it could have been)

hey BabyBlue... do you have cadence?

So are you telling me I can get the GPS with only the heart rate option and add the SD city card later??

[BabyBlueNTulsa]

hey BabyBlue... do you have cadence?

So are you telling me I can get the GPS with only the heart rate option and add the SD city card later??

Yup! That's what I did! I don't have the cadence monitor, but after using a Powertap before this, I figured I could do without. :-)