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| Garmin Edge 705 GPS-Enabled Cycling Computer (Includes Heart Rate Monitor and Speed/Cadence Sensor) | 
| Brand: Garmin
List Price: $595.82
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Seller: American Sports Equipment
Rating:  reviews
Format: CD
Platform: Mac
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries: 1
Batteries Included: Yes
Operating System: Macintosh
Native Resolution: 176 x 220
Display Size: 2.2
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 2 x 4.3 x 1
Legal Disclaimer: Disclaimer: This Heart Rate Monitor Watch is not a medical device, or intended for use in any medical, or patient monitoring application. This Heart Rate Monitor Watch is not intended of use in any commercial application. Always consult a physician before starting any physical activity.
MPN: Edge 705 Speed/ Cade
Model: Edge 705 Speed/ Cade
UPC: 753759067007
EAN: 2001316310003
ASIN: B001690VC6
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| | GPS-Enabled Cycle Computer | | | Sunlight-Readable Color Display | | | Features A High-Sensitivity Receiver That Holds A Signal Under Trees & Near Tall Buildings | | | Automatically Measures Speed, Distance, Time, Calories Burned, Altitude, Climb & Descent | | | Microsd Card(Tm) Slot For Adding Map Detail & Storing Workouts, Courses & Saved Rides |
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Product Description
Edge® 705
Package Includes:
- Edge® 705
- Heartrate Monitor
- Speed/Cadence Sensor
Trainer. Navigator. Edge 705 pushes you to do your best, then shows you the way back. This GPS-enabled cycle computer knows no limits. Get heart rate, cadence, turn-by-turn directions, power data (from ANT + Sport™-enabled third-party power meters) the works. Even share your data with other Edge 705 buddies after your ride. All wireless with a color display, this is no ordinary cycle computer.
Navigate Your Ride
Lose yourself in the ride without losing your way. Edge 705 comes with a built-in basemap, plus it has a microSD card slot for adding map detail and storing workout data (excludes history). Just plug in detailed MapSource® City Navigator® street maps on a preloaded data card and get turn-by-turn directions on a sunlight-readable, color display as you pedal. Add optional topo mapping for your off-road adventures. Edge snaps easily into the included bike mount to guide you to your destination.
See Your Power
Edge 705 works with third-party ANT + Sport-enabled power meters (check back soon to view list of compatible devices) to display your power output in watts as you ride. This valuable data shows you how hard you're working, regardless of conditions affecting your ride, so you can train smarter. Get a competitive advantage by viewing power output along with Edge data all on the same display and storing this information to analyze your workout.
Measure Heart Rate and Cadence
Garmins innovative ANT + Sport wireless technology means you get heart rate and speed/cadence data with no strings attached. All versions of Edge 705 include a wireless heart rate monitor to measure your heart rate and track your heart rate zone. Package also includes speed/cadence sensor to monitor your pedaling cadence and wheel speed as your ride. You can even use it to train in
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| Customer Reviews:
 It's GPS good but not Biometric Monitoring good! August 12, 2010
Lester (Rowland Heights, CA)
If you're considering of purchasing this item it has to be for the GPS feature. That's what made me look into it. But lets start off with some simple things to consider. The GPS is great, but you do need to purchase at least one of it's maps to get the full feature ex: the turn by turn direction or the poi's. Another question is, do I need the GPS? I usually ride trails I know and if I do get lost I have my trusty iPhone w/ me which does have Google Maps. Last question to ask your self, am I using this to monitor my training? If so, you're using the wrong HR monitor because it's not as great as others out in the market.
The flaws:
Switching from Polar CS 600x to Garmin HR monitor it's major flaw is it's training software. Polar is known for it's biometric monitoring and Garmin is known for it's GPS. I wouldn't trust the accuracy of the calories burned vs. Polar's accuracy, but it's great just to see how much you can potentially burn. One of the biggest flaw I do have to point out is it's auto pause/start and auto lap feature. I live in a city where there's a lot of lights, and I do have to stop from time to time. The auto pause/start feature only work when you use simple training. It doesn't work if you just want to monitor your ride or make an advance/interval training. That means every time I have to stop at the stop light, I have to remember to press the start/stop button. It doesn't seem like a big thing, but I do make training programs (which is considered an advance training program) where there's a warm up stage, work stage, and a cool down stage. That means I always have to remember to press start/stop all the time where as Polar works in all training modes. The other thing that would of been great is programing the whole device through your computer (the monitoring fields, setting, etc) then syncing it.
The Pro:
Besides the GPS the biggest feature I would have to be is it's cadence and speed sensor. I like how both sensors are put into one, and how the batteries are replaceable unlike Polar's. Another thing is how the program is Mac friendly. I don't need to use boot camp in order to use the HR monitor. Going back to the sensors. Every sensor is included heart rate, speed, cadence, and gps sensor if the right package is purchase and is cheaper.
My final thoughts:
If you're looking for a gps unit for your bike then this will work for you. But if you more into training, then I would considered another company looking into. If Garmin starts looking into training and fixes their flaws this product would have had the potential of having 5 stars and I would not be considering going back to Polar.
 Excellent Multi-usw GPS June 22, 2010
Bruce Hornecker (Millburn, NJ)
The Garmin Edge 705 is one of the best GPS units I have ever owned. The unit was easy to mount ( I have mounted it on both of my bikes), and can also be used in a car. It's easy to set up, has multiple display settings to customize how you see your workout or current location. There are many choices on what is viewed in the screen from 1 to 8 screens. Garmin has a free downloadable program to upload your data and maps. The price I had paid at Amazon was one of the lowest prices I have seen. I would highly recommend this unit for anyone who spends time outdoors.
One of best purchases in past few years... May 28, 2010
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's difficult for me to find the words to describe how much I love this thing. I use it to track all my workouts, I navigate long and complicated routes effortlessly, I explore new areas - it's opened up a world of cycling in unfamiliar terrain.
I initially hesitated at the cost - but after using the 305 for almost a year and having logged > 3000 miles on it - I did not hesitate to upgrade and spend twice as much to get the 705 for the additional features it provides.
Hats off to the Garmin folks for creating such a great unit.
I highly recommend this GPS.
About me: I'm a casual rider. I ride about 600 miles per month and use the Garmin to track my rides (I visually load my rides onto MapMyRide and into Google Earth), track my progress and data associated with my rides.
I also have been using the unit to help me navigate long, unfamiliar rides. In this case, I load a GPX file on the unit from any number of mapping utilities ([...], [...], etc).
Some of PROS:
- Weather-proof - you wouldn't swim with it, but I've ridden in downpours with it quite a bit
- Sturdy, solid construction - It's survived many drops
- Navigation - Turn-by-turn alerts based on a saved route works well
- Screen - Legible, precise, looks great - beautiful full color maps
- Backlight / Crip display - Very good illumination
- Battery - After over a year of solid use, I still get 12+ hours continuous (without backlight).
- Accurate GPS - works well in almost all parts of Manhattan, for example
- Customizable screens - chose the data points you'd to show across 2 customizable screens
- Heart rate sensor - has worked flawlessly for me (unlike the Polar sensors, which I'd had issues with)
- Barometric altimeter - accurate - love knowing how much I've climbed (even as an estimate) and the % grade is neat
- Support for workouts - intervals, etc and riding against your previous performance
Some of the CONS (the PROS greatly outweigh any of these cons):
- Maps are expensive (I believe I dropped $100 on maps for my cycling trip in France).
- Map feature display priorities - The map name prioritization doesn't make sense to me... I wish the map displayed town names over park names, for example.
- Calorie count is completely wrong (based on distance - does not take into account climbs or heart rate) - but then again, I didn't buy this unit to count calories.
- Packaged Software - It's not great, it's not bad - it does the trick.
Enjoy!
 Serious bicyclists need this, but be aware that you will need tech supp March 15, 2010
Michael Herzen (Redwood City, CA)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
An odd mix of positives and negatives:
Pros:
Incomparable data graphs of numerous measured parameters during your ride, permitting quantification of training beyond anything even dreamed of a couple of decades ago.
All the other well-known advantages of GPS to display current location and to be able to plan routes and courses (as well, of course, as showing details of ridden courses).
The variety, choice, and arrangement of displayed measurements (the `fields') are just amazing. Essentially, you can put on the screen virtually whatever you want and wherever you want it, and the screen is high resolution (as is required, to be sure, for detailed maps).
Heart-rate and cadence are reliably detected. Heart-rate is intelligently smoothed (but will detect tachycardia).
Tech support is US based and, therefore, native English speaking (unfortunately, it is needed far too often).
Battery life is good enough for a very long ride - I suspect easily over 10 hours (if back-lighting is not over-used).
Cons:
No temperature sensor
Barometer does not permit user calibration, thereby insuring that it can only be accurate in the accident of exactly the right weather (as atmospheric pressure, which it is actually measuring, varies with the weather). Why the maker would have done this is incomprehensible. Since the weather changes constantly, the indicated `elevation' changes, even though you have not moved. Moreover, because there is no temperature sensor, the barometer transducer cannot be temperature compensated, inducing the inevitability of yet another error in that measurement. Consequently, I was able to watch the elevation drift from plus 150 feet to minus (!!) 200 feet in the space of a few minutes (the actual elevation was 245 feet). Finally, it is quite possible to have the device show a difference in altitude for the beginning and end of the ride of over 50 feet, even when you start and finish at the same place (with no perceptible change in weather)! At the very least, the user should be able to calibrate the instrument at the start of a ride (provided, of course, that he knows the elevation at that starting point). This would help ensure that `elevation' (altitude) measurements at any point on the ride will be reasonably accurate.
The user manual is woefully inadequate. Example: you are told that, at a rate of 1 second intervals for route recordings, the device will begin to overwrite previous data after about 4.5 hours (without warning!). You are encouraged to `reset' the device after 4 hours. What you are not told is what happens to your data in this circumstance (it turns out that, fortunately, it is saved!). Example: There is virtually no explanation of how `calories' are calculated. If you are not using a power sensor, this number has to be interpolated from some algorithm. There is no information about this whatsoever in the manual and, you can obtain virtually nothing on this subject from Garmin tech support even over the phone! (I personally believe - admittedly, without quantitative proof - their calculation for calories burned to be grossly inaccurate, perhaps by as much as a factor of 2 too high.) Example: the `save location' feature has 3 choices: "Avg", "Max" and "OK", none of which is explained in the manual. And I could go on with many other issues.
Copy/piracy protection for their maps is so obsessive that even their own staff cannot easily circumvent it in the (inevitable) case where copying is necessary. In my own case, I had to replace my 705 with another, but since I had already downloaded my (purchased) North American DVD of maps, I was unable to unlock the map without 3 hours (!) of telephone assistance from technical support. ! This is supposed to be called customer service?? There just has to be a better way...
The "Training Center" software, available as a free download from their web address, does not permit any user designation of units to be used in the graph, just how coarse or fine, for example, one can plot any particular variable (such as slope, or what Garmin calls `grade') - it just arbitrarily chooses the ordinate, and cannot be changed. ? Surely Garmin can do better than this.
In sum: I have not tried other competitive models (or even know that they exist). As a cycling computer, this thing is amazing, blowing away the pre-GPS varieties, yet at the same time it is disappointing. With a bit more effort, especially with software and documentation, Garmin could have had something truly awesome. As it stands, it is a major achievement, but the user is made to feel uncomfortably dependent on tech support due to the poor documentation.
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