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Ended up going for the Explore as it is currently down to £176 on Cycle Republic. Annoyingly the Edge 530 was down to about that previously on the Garmin site as discussed in this thread a few weeks ago, but wasn't really ready to make a purchase then. I'm so used to having my current unit on charge whilst riding that I think the battery life will be ok for me, any longer stuff I can plug it in when it starts to get low. I think the sheer amount of features on the 530 was what turned me away most. I hate having things that I don't use cluttering menus up haha.
ric_a5
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I have the same thoughts.
Explore could navigate you to address/POI, and it has a bigger screen with touch.
However, 530 is smaller, it has a better battery life and the same maps IIRC. Also, it could recalculate route on the fly using their own heatmaps, and it has tonnes and tonnes features which probably I won't use but hey maybe I will, and not all of them require a power meter. It's black also.