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Samsung Xcover 4S
Interesting, Samsung rugged phone, hadn't come across it. But doesn't seem to have ant+ and memory not great, so spec not as good as my galaxy s8 (and, tempting fate here, I don't tend to break stuff much so don't need ultra rugged kit). Xcover 5 is better but still no ant+
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Yeah, I don't care about ANT+ on the phone as it's only a backup or to use for ad hoc routing to hotels or whatever. Memory hasn't been a limiter for me. I'm fairly militant about not installing apps and there's no way I'd pay whatever crazy prices they're asking for their flagship phones just to hang off my aerobars.
The 5 doesn't have physical buttons so it's not quite as good for a "bike phone".
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I'm normally in the aerobars and the Garmin is near my thumbs so I don't even have to let go of the bars to flick the screen.
The Sony has been retired now. We still have a couple of them but now I've got a Samsung Xcover 4S and the grrl has the newer XCover 5. Yeah, she bought her own phone after my hand-me-down XCover 4 started being a dickhead.
My 4S is cracked in two places now so I might have to replace it sooner rather than later.
In rain, I normally just pick the map screen and then lock the screen.