I’ve had a Garmin 820 for a month or so, and when it’s doing what it’s meant to on the bike it’s great – but doing anything like planning routes, syncing updating etc seems overly hard – is it just me ? .
I’ve had/got other Garmin devices and the pattern does seem to be very good hardware combined with awful user interfaces. If only they would poach a few Apple interface designer/engineers.
This is half a whinge and half a constructive request for better ways to use the device by the way.
Examples –
Navigate to an address – trying to enter a full postcode – not easily – have to type the street name like a car satnav from 10 years ago (you CAN enter the full postcode, but only by cancelling and going back to the postcode box several times)
Copy a Strava GPX file to the device via Garmin Connect – download GPX from Strava, run it through an online converter because Garmin doesn’t like the file format – import it into Connect as an “activity” – click “create course from activity) – delete activity
Use Garmin Connect to plan a route to avoid the above faff – map has really low contrast for minor roads so hard to actually see routes to plan, and the actual map window is less than 50% of the height of the screen so hard to actually use.
