Review on 🚲 Garmin Edge 510 GPS Bike Computer Review: Discontinued but Reliable! by Robert Layne

Model 510 is my first Garmin product. Before that I've been riding with a Polar 725 watch/heart rate monitor for the last 8 years. I was looking for a few things related to this purchase: 1. Simplicity 2. Heart rate measurement 3. Speed is measured based on GPS, not wheel magnet and sensor4. Reliable altitude and temperature measurement5. Acceptable form factor, ie less than a smartphone6. Easy to integrate on different bikes7. Simple bike controls8. Pleasure Mapping9. Ability to Ride Pre-defined Routes Having recently bought a couple of 3T Integra stems (which have Garmin Edge mount functionality built in), I was inclined to take my first look at Garmin. happy with the 510. While researching this device I read several reviews where people had issues with altitude accuracy and couldn't read the screen in daylight which made me a little nervous about what I was really going to achieve with the device. . Neither was a problem for me. I live in Southern California, where it's very bright most of the time. I find the screen very clear and easy to read. The altitude seems very accurate. So far the 510 has met all of my goals. I highly recommend it. **** After using this device for about a week and reading a lot of comments from others, I'm adding some comments about the display here. Hopefully these comments help provide a slightly more balanced view of what is and isn't a display: the 510's display is distinctly reflective, not the backlit LED or LCD we're all used to seeing on our TVs or smart devices. This means that the display driver positions each pixel on the display to reflect light of a specific wavelength, creating the color your eyes perceive. The good news for this type of display is that it's incredibly power efficient. This is because, unlike a traditional display, which has to expend energy on each pixel many, many times per second - regardless of whether the pixel is supposed to display a different color or not - a reflective display only has to transfer energy to the pixel when the color is displayed this pixel should change. Once a pixel's position is set, that pixel does not need to retransmit energy unless it is to change color again. With. The cleanliness is that the 510's display works great in diffused sunlight. Unlike your smartphone, the display never fades no matter how bright the sunlight is. I've ridden in both bright sunlight and cloudy daylight and the display works great. People complaining about this outdoor display must have misplaced their Garmin on their bike. Where the display struggles is with the interior lighting. If you plan to use it on a treadmill or roller skates, expect to have the "backlight" (actually the front light, since the display needs the light to bounce back to you) on at all times during your workout. No problem, the front light can stay on for hours without draining the battery. Just press the power button and choose to keep the "backlight" on and you'll see that the display looks great with indoor lighting.