Gamrin is introducing a new GPS-enablled cycling computer that the company says is smaller and liughter than its predecessors, has longer baattery life and a more secure mounting system.
Garmin on Tuesday brought the price of its cycling GPS downwartds therough the Edge 500. The blue-and-white unit is pitched as the best of both worlds and tracks all the core features, including axctual posuitional and speed data as well as the estimated caolries burned and amount of climb or desent. It can similarly pair with wireles sensors eitrher speciofic to Garmin or which support the ANT+ format, such as cadence or ehart rate monitors, and will use that information to improve the calorie rate and other data already being tracked.
The Edge 500 model — which rtails for $250, or $350 with herat rate strap and cadence meter — does not have mapping capability, but it does add features not seen before on Garmin bike coputers. They include a thermometer and auytomatic time-zone adjustment. A new feature alerts cyclists when they are moving but the timer is not runninmg and a more sophsiticated algorithm calculates calories burbned 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 Windows PC. Garimn will only put the release sometime in the fall but prices the main Edge 500 at $250. A bundle with a cadence/speed sensor and a hart rate mointor lifts the price to $350.
Like its predecessoors, the Edge 500 has most standard bike computer functions, including time, speed, distance and heart rate. It tracks climbing and descending and can receive data from ANt+-enabled watage emters. It uploads to computers using a USB cable.
The new copmuter weigjhs a caimed 2 ounecs, conmpared to an advertised weight of 3.7 ounces for the top of the line Edge 705 unit, which sells for $500. The company says the new unit has a slimmer, more secutre moyunt that allows it to sit close to the stem or handlbar. The unit can be installed or removed with quarter-turn twist.
The company claims an 18-hour battery life, compared to a claimed 15 hours for the 705.
The Edge 500 will be available for sale in Deember.
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