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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2013 16:06:48 GMT
Dare we ask? What was the outcome? No pictures, please. But it would be an interesting turnaround if the male:female gender ratio around here was rebalanced. Fluff would welcome it, I'm sure. And, irony of ironies considering the thread, I've not seen Satnav on these pages for a while.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2013 17:56:55 GMT
The amount of times you've entered the details in to the SatCount, I'd ask the misses if your repeating height, weight, age, tyre size in your sleep The depressing thing is I am constantly reminding myself that im 38, 76 kilos etc Yeh I fkn know, and I want to be 22 and 50 kilos!!! Be written to geonaute and led them if they'll improve their dreadful online experience or if there is a way to customize the page, knowing the french I doubt the will give a merde They've got a 720 p camera at same cost, might swap it could be worse Zol, I have to enter my details as 45 and 105 KG's
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2013 19:38:55 GMT
I've tried a few apps (google maps / viewranger )and havent been impressed by them.. in the end I purchased a Mio cyclo 300 and I am very impressed with it. When I was looking to purchase I read a few reviews about weak GPS signal in built up area’s but I don’t know how true this is as I used it to get from Buckingham palace to Manchester and never lost signal once it was perfect very clear screen and instructions its ready to go out of the box. my friend has the Garmin 800 he did the ride with me and we both used the same route file and mine was always 1st to give the direction plus he had to buy an extra map to get local roads. Another great feature is the surprise me button where you can either enter a time or distance and it will plan a route for you and get you back home in the time or set distance which is great if you get bored of doing the same routes around your area. After seeing the deal on Groupon, seems like its good value for £150 or £179.99 for the 305... Did your come with all the maps you needed?
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Post by goffski on Jun 17, 2013 8:40:13 GMT
Very interesting. I love Cyclemeter! the best cycling app on the iPhone so far and I have been through a number. What gets my angry is whenever I export my ride data to Strava and it nicks about 3 miles and increase my time. Does that happen to you? Curious about the memory map though was under the impression it was only for hikers/campers. Is it incorporated into any cycling app or is it just a standalone app that you use like google maps? Yes, i does sometimes take a mile or so off my ride but yes it always seems to add a little more time on to my ride. Not too sure why it does this and have been meaning to look into it. Another thing i've noticed it the elevation data is completely different to my mates who uses a Garmin. Make's me wonder which is correct. Yeah, memory map using OS maps therefore more suited to walkers & hikers, it's good for cyclist too as it does have paths and cycle routes on. The reason for me using this is the map is stored on the phone do i can have data turned off so it's no wasting battery. It doesn't incorporate into any other app, it's a stand alone mapping app, it will record your route and you can export these out as well as importing routes.
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Post by acd1055 on Jun 17, 2013 10:18:38 GMT
I've tried a few apps (google maps / viewranger )and havent been impressed by them.. in the end I purchased a Mio cyclo 300 and I am very impressed with it. When I was looking to purchase I read a few reviews about weak GPS signal in built up area’s but I don’t know how true this is as I used it to get from Buckingham palace to Manchester and never lost signal once it was perfect very clear screen and instructions its ready to go out of the box. my friend has the Garmin 800 he did the ride with me and we both used the same route file and mine was always 1st to give the direction plus he had to buy an extra map to get local roads. Another great feature is the surprise me button where you can either enter a time or distance and it will plan a route for you and get you back home in the time or set distance which is great if you get bored of doing the same routes around your area. After seeing the deal on Groupon, seems like its good value for £150 or £179.99 for the 305... Did your come with all the maps you needed? Sorry Dan, not been on the PC all weekend.. Yes its ready to go out of the box.. Unlike the Garmin where you need to buy street maps.
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Post by Whitestar1 on Jun 17, 2013 13:11:02 GMT
It all comes down to poor software design and implementation. It's clear that they were pushing a product onto the market at a price point that they think everyone will jump to. It seems its not just the likes of the game software houses are doing it. Anyone here ever played Eve? So you are comparing Garmin to big bad Google now are you zoltansocrates? You are such a comspiracy theorist! Lol who are you working for whitey lol, no its just the garmin seems overpriced, much like ,'I' products and wait rose and pinarello and Nike you get my drift Tried it again tonight and worked but now my gender is 'fu' so there a new one, promoted a downstairs check and a scary couple of seconds lol I gave up when Strava robbed me 5 miles yesterday morning. Ordered the Garmin 510 bundle this morning argument closed now. What about Microsoft?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2013 7:27:47 GMT
The deed is done, went to mecca and they only had the satcount in so ordered the sc plus and should arrive within the next few days - only edinburgh order so Arny has access to my real name now Looks good though, certainly the standard one - none too big but nice clear display, seems light enough sand works with all the geonaute software and sensors side note : interestingly, the chap in mecca said there is a division within decathlon that would help with jerseys - arny get on to it mate review on th sc plus to follow Noticed this has now gone up to £129.99 on the Decca website now - must be as a result of your (still unpublished) review, Zoltan? ;-) Seriously though, it doesn't say it comes with anything extra, like cadence sensor or HRM strap, etc, so am a bit puzzled...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2013 10:14:41 GMT
perni you're right. I hadn't spotted that. Just to double check, I looked at arny's old post. The satcount was £80 and the satcount+ was £100. Both increased in price to £100 and £130 respectively.
Maybe one can look at the cateye stealth 10 or Bryton 20. They are cheaper but haven't compared functionality.
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Post by zoltansocrates on Jun 18, 2013 12:37:09 GMT
Lol who are you working for whitey lol, no its just the garmin seems overpriced, much like ,'I' products and wait rose and pinarello and Nike you get my drift Tried it again tonight and worked but now my gender is 'fu' so there a new one, promoted a downstairs check and a scary couple of seconds lol I gave up when Strava robbed me 5 miles yesterday morning. Ordered the Garmin 510 bundle this morning argument closed now. What about Microsoft? im not a computer geek so as far as im concerned i cant really avoid microsoft for the day job, but i would NEVER have one of their consoles in my house
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Post by zoltansocrates on Jun 18, 2013 12:40:55 GMT
The deed is done, went to mecca and they only had the satcount in so ordered the sc plus and should arrive within the next few days - only edinburgh order so Arny has access to my real name now Looks good though, certainly the standard one - none too big but nice clear display, seems light enough sand works with all the geonaute software and sensors side note : interestingly, the chap in mecca said there is a division within decathlon that would help with jerseys - arny get on to it mate review on th sc plus to follow Noticed this has now gone up to £129.99 on the Decca website now - must be as a result of your (still unpublished) review, Zoltan? ;-) Seriously though, it doesn't say it comes with anything extra, like cadence sensor or HRM strap, etc, so am a bit puzzled... the only review i have has been sent to decathlon themselves, not bestist please with the purchase - have continued to use it over the last few days, albeit in turbo mode, and will do a proper review once time permits, bloody work etc i have been running it in tandem with the count 14 and the speed cadence and hrm work perfectly i miffed at the device losing MY standard data, height weight wheel size etc but the real, massive, let down is tha analysis software, you dont need a satcount to use it, but go and see for your self at my geonaute.com - its for children, really miffed at that - and people say, but its free - i dont care, it is an integral part of the use of satcount so it should be better
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Post by Whitestar1 on Jun 18, 2013 12:45:44 GMT
I gave up when Strava robbed me 5 miles yesterday morning. Ordered the Garmin 510 bundle this morning argument closed now. What about Microsoft? im not a computer geek so as far as im concerned i cant really avoid microsoft for the day job, but i would NEVER have one of their consoles in my house xbox 360, servers, desktops that's me. Wont be buying the xbox One though - son wants the PS4. What about your take on Sony - evil Japanese company taking over the world?
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Post by zoltansocrates on Jun 18, 2013 12:53:18 GMT
im not a computer geek so as far as im concerned i cant really avoid microsoft for the day job, but i would NEVER have one of their consoles in my house xbox 360, servers, desktops that's me. Wont be buying the xbox One though - son wants the PS4. What about your take on Sony - evil Japanese company taking over the world? it was the question i dreaded you asking, at least they are japanese and not some empirical empire built on burger fat and excess however having learned my lesson from PS3(ie 5 years w/o cycling, spending a fortune on HD tellies that are now old hat, getting fat BUT good at Gran Turismo) its all nonsense, these consoles are fat people makers so i will be refusing the upgrade to ps4 and i am happy with that - a game, these days, costs as much as a carbon seatpost, now i could get the next fifa, which was the same as the previous one, which was the same as the previous one....but id rather have the seatpost, or new pedals (time please gentlemen) never been that big with computers tbh, a server to me might as well be andy murray as a computer, to me they are merely tools and i dont get excited over someones massive ram pack or how many gigs they are packing
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2013 13:10:05 GMT
Noticed this has now gone up to £129.99 on the Decca website now - must be as a result of your (still unpublished) review, Zoltan? ;-) Seriously though, it doesn't say it comes with anything extra, like cadence sensor or HRM strap, etc, so am a bit puzzled... the only review i have has been sent to decathlon themselves, not bestist please with the purchase - have continued to use it over the last few days, albeit in turbo mode, and will do a proper review once time permits, bloody work etc i have been running it in tandem with the count 14 and the speed cadence and hrm work perfectly i miffed at the device losing MY standard data, height weight wheel size etc but the real, massive, let down is tha analysis software, you dont need a satcount to use it, but go and see for your self at my geonaute.com - its for children, really miffed at that - and people say, but its free - i dont care, it is an integral part of the use of satcount so it should be better I have an account on mygeonaute.com as I wanted to see what the device natively worked with. It does look pretty amateurish, I have to be honest. And totally agree that what you connect the device to is as much a part of the product as the GPS receiver. To lose your user settings so often, it must be a dodgy unit. I asked this question of Decathlon customer service a couple of months ago, who forwarded it to their tech team: can the Satcount+ export data (which may or may may not be as much of a pain the a$$ as it sounds) to work with non-Geonaute apps, for example Strava? I never did get an answer... For the GPS tracking it would need to create something like a .gpx file (which I think it will do), but I don't know whether this single file could also carry cadence and HRM info? Perhaps someone else on here may know, or Google? In mygeonaute.com, it seems as though you can export rides as .gpx files, so it may be that you get it into mygeonaute.com then out again and into somewhere more useful... That's my two penneth-worth anyway.
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Post by zoltansocrates on Jun 18, 2013 13:20:59 GMT
the only review i have has been sent to decathlon themselves, not bestist please with the purchase - have continued to use it over the last few days, albeit in turbo mode, and will do a proper review once time permits, bloody work etc i have been running it in tandem with the count 14 and the speed cadence and hrm work perfectly i miffed at the device losing MY standard data, height weight wheel size etc but the real, massive, let down is tha analysis software, you dont need a satcount to use it, but go and see for your self at my geonaute.com - its for children, really miffed at that - and people say, but its free - i dont care, it is an integral part of the use of satcount so it should be better I have an account on mygeonaute.com as I wanted to see what the device natively worked with. It does look pretty amateurish, I have to be honest. And totally agree that what you connect the device to is as much a part of the product as the GPS receiver. To lose your user settings so often, it must be a dodgy unit. I asked this question of Decathlon customer service a couple of months ago, who forwarded it to their tech team: can the Satcount+ export data (which may or may may not be as much of a pain the a$$ as it sounds) to work with non-Geonaute apps, for example Strava? I never did get an answer... For the GPS tracking it would need to create something like a .gpx file (which I think it will do), but I don't know whether this single file could also carry cadence and HRM info? Perhaps someone else on here may know, or Google? In mygeonaute.com, it seems as though you can export rides as .gpx files, so it may be that you get it into mygeonaute.com then out again and into somewhere more useful... That's my two penneth-worth anyway. i think you are right pernie, on a couple of things decathlon - front end and face to face you cannot fault their service but behind the scenes, the websites associated with them are awful, you rarely get a response and of course you know yourself how bad the geonaute website is
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Post by Whitestar1 on Jun 18, 2013 13:25:54 GMT
xbox 360, servers, desktops that's me. Wont be buying the xbox One though - son wants the PS4. What about your take on Sony - evil Japanese company taking over the world? it was the question i dreaded you asking, at least they are japanese and not some empirical empire built on burger fat and excess however having learned my lesson from PS3(ie 5 years w/o cycling, spending a fortune on HD tellies that are now old hat, getting fat BUT good at Gran Turismo) its all nonsense, these consoles are fat people makers so i will be refusing the upgrade to ps4 and i am happy with that - a game, these days, costs as much as a carbon seatpost, now i could get the next fifa, which was the same as the previous one, which was the same as the previous one....but id rather have the seatpost, or new pedals (time please gentlemen) never been that big with computers tbh, a server to me might as well be andy murray as a computer, to me they are merely tools and i dont get excited over someones massive ram pack or how many gigs they are packing got a mate who would beg to differ to that last opinion of yours - man's got a server farm right next to the bedroom! As for the Japanese not been empire builders you certainly got that wrong, just look at Singapore and Hong Kong and ask the people what they think of the Japanese occupation. Even so, I love my Sony LED telly, obsolete DVD player and Mini disc player - yep still have one and working too. And if my son gets his way it will be the PS4 sitting right beside the xbox 360 in a couple of months. I aim not to caving in on that one though, don't I will last long. Hopefully I can tell him to get a job, he is just 17.
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