Would love one that connects to phone if there is one.

I think one of the newer Garmin forerunners does so you can live track your ride but i can’t remember the model, sorry

Magellan echo connects to phone and you can use it to change music etc..but it actually uses GPS signal from phone I think, rather than having GPS on board. Garmin 620 and 220 have a livetrack facility via your phone. See DCRainmaker blog for more info on GPS than you can shake a stick at.

Garmin Fenix2 or Forerunner 620 connect to iOS and Android (hardware list here).

Fenix is ANT *or* BT in use (so fitness sensors or phone connection at that time (clearly you can switch between the two protocols for uploads and the like)), but as far as I can recall the 620 does both concurrently. 620 is tightly focused on it’s job as a running watch, the F2 is maybe more of a outdoor-activity watch in general.

Any good? – as always ‘it depends’ 😉
Certainly my 910XT gets a hammering data-logging runs and rides.

(My phone is at least 6 years old, so doesn’t talk to anything (or get switched on more than a couple of times a year, so I dunno about how useful / not useful that it)).

Depends on what you need it to do, but I have a Suunto Ambit, which does everything I need, but it doesnt connect to a phone.

I wanted the following features:-

– waterproof
– Small enough (just about) to wear as a regular watch
– Configurable displays – So ican choose what data I display depending on what I’m doing – so for mountain biking I have current time, distance, average speed, current altitude, total amount of height gained plus heart rate data.
– Ability to navigate via waypoints.
– excellent battery life – 15 hours of continuous GPS use (at 1 second intervals), or 30 days of non gps use
– ability to log all data (regardless of what you were displaying on the watch ) and upload to PC/strava later on

It also does lots of other stuff I’m not so bothered about like:-

– built in compass
– Ability to hook up to cadence sensors.
– Interval training features
– heart rate zone training features

I bought it a couple of years ago, so I dare say there are better watches out there now.

Does anyone know if the Garmin 910 xt connects to smart phones via Garmin Connect ?

+1 For the Ambit ive got the Ambit2 s it does everything very well and conects to my garmin bike pod and heart rate moniters..ive had all sorts of garmins and still have edge 500 and 800 and a forerunner 620, however i only use the Ambit now I wish id known about it a couple of years ago, obviously it dosent have the mapping etc of the edge 800 but for everything else you cant beat it

I think the Garmin Fenix will do what you want but it ain’t cheap.

I have the Forerunner 220, which is decent for running but a bit useless for anything else. Good battery life though.

620 is better but also twice the price.

Not as standard, but if you have a phone with Ant+ (check out the listings at http://www.thisisant.com/directory/ and filter on phones – mostly Sony Xperia and some Samsung Galaxys) then you can get apps which allow you to upload to Garmin Connect. Also an Ant+ dongle available for the iPhone I think. Ant+ was one of my main buying criteria when I got a phone for this reason!