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I’ve been pretty happy with my Edge Explore. It’s nice using Komoot to plan routes and syncing them over through the app (and I believe the Garmin will sync them directly very soon). The screen is great. Sometimes it takes a few swipes to switch screen, but never too bad. Recommended.
scraplab-
I’ve been very impressed with the Cycle Republic service at least, ordered on Thursday evening and arrived yesterday morning, think that’s quicker than anything I ever ordered into the store previously. Happy with the garmin route import tests I’ve done so far which has been make the route in RWGPS, import that into Garmin connect and then using the phone app to transfer to the device, will maybe find a less clicking about way once I’ve played with it more. Taking it out today so will see how I get on but yeah first impressions on the touchscreen and the screen size and things are good
ric_a5
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.