My long term review of the new Garmin Edge 1050 GPS bike computer. Likes to like but a few issues and dislikes too
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Content
00:00 Intro
00:57 Amazing screen
2.00 Tremendous battery life
3:48 Touchscreen responsiveness
4:58 Is it too big?
5:29 Feature overload?
6:16 It has a bell!
7:52 Pothole reporting
10:16 Easy customisation
11:48 Mapping and navigation
13:27 User interface
14:52 Reliability
15:48 Should you buy it?
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26 Comments
Garmin is never worth it, the interface is clunky, clumsy and far from straight forward. Even then the platform is not stable and on a recent tour my uploaded files simply wiped off the platform leaving me stranded, for me my best Garmin day was taking my newly purchased Garmin and throwing it in the bin.
I have used many Garmins over decades and not once had a system crash of any kind. The 1030 or 810 rule !
People pay 5k for a frame and moan the computer is expensive lol
It retails for $950 cdn +tax. Bonkers money. But also I love so many of the features. I’ll stick with my Karoo 2 for now. New SDK just release, hopefully gets a few more features
Tried the 1050. Prefer my 1040. Screen didn’t do anything for me. If you have brightness off you can’t see the screen at all….
I have an 840 which is about the right size, has buttons and a touch screen and has most of the features. It's still a lot of money but better value than the 1050 IMHO
Every pretentious fat banker has one
Great review, I'm loving mine after changing it from the 1040, My reason was screen quality, as someone that wears glasses for reading this has helped my 10 fold. Most of the features are identical but with a much smoother interface.
I'd love someone with the knowledge to produce a video on the latest routing advice and settings.
£350 for a really really nice bike bell 🛎️ and a battery pack 🔋🪫
just get on your bike and ride heheh cheers.
@David – Great timing, I'm about to buy one! The two crashes you mention. I understand they were early on in your trial, not sure of the SW release level, but I know as a current Edge user there have been a few in the last couple of months. Could have been with an early release, and a bug that Garmin have fixed?
I still don’t understand amateurs paying so much money for this
I’d rather keep my eyes on the road 😊
All these features and still can’t disable virtual partner 😂
Thanks David!
I have the 840, and whilst I mostly really like it, it does crash occasionally, the wifi-sync feature is really buggy, and sending routes from Komoot is a bit variable – sometimes very quick, sometimes annoyingly slow.
The 840 does have the pothole feature, but it is just super-annoying as it covers the bottom row, so I can’t see power every time an alert pops up. And as others have said, if all the potholes were notified it would basically be a permanent stripe across the bottom as most roads have at least one pothole every 200m where I live….
On the plus side, the configurability, battery life, hill climb, eat/drink reminders etc are useful.
I will stick with my phone that I already own. $700 is insane.
The screen is a welcome change but Garmin should learn how to cut wasted real estate on these devices. The area around the screen is humongous. Getting rid of that dead space would have made the device substantially smaller and more practical.
Too expensive, too many features, too big. Total overkill. I like to ride and look around, not have my eyes and fingers glued to a GPS unit.
As a 52 year old with eyes that have seen better days, I need that big bright screen. The flip side is that one positive of being 52 is that I can afford one.
When is 850 expected to come?
How aero and lightweight is it?
For 700 dollars there should be no bad or ugly, it should be a perfectly functional device that has all the features you want and others you might need. For the price of an iphone that can do pretty much anything one of these can do i don’t see the point
That thing costs $150 US more than a new Mac Mini M4 desktop computer. And like other bike computers, it's bezels are gigantic. 🤦♂️
Too late review, we’re waiting for the new Wahoo gps.
Does rain affect the screen , change pages etc like it does on my 820
Consider that the hazard alert feature has rolled to the x40 series as well. I've got a 1040 and started seeing useful warnings. Not there yet but it has to start somewhere