My personal choice for a smartwatch is the Apple Watch 6/SE which is superior to any Garmin watch in most respects…except sport! For both Garmin and Apple, watch power consumption is an ever-present issue Garmin has under-powered watches and Apple has to control screen usage VERY tightly in order to keep the battery life up to its customers’ expectations…consequently, Apple is restrictive about how complications are allowed to use the active watch face but nevertheless an Apple Watch’s ability to curate watch faces is an interesting contrast to the approach taken by Garmin and worth a look for those of you who might be interested. You will have your own take on each of those facets and what’s best for you. You should also know that Peter Dedecker is a prolific CIQ developer and has other good apps and my understanding is that he is incorporating this WIND data field into one of his other data fields that combines multiple data fields into one data field hence bypassing limits on the number of data fields you can use.īest New Watch Face SHN TxD (Tactix D style) by SHNĪs our smartwatches become more entwined with our 24×7 lives then the face on display is important from both an aesthetic and functional point of view. It would be very interesting to see something that links to products like Velocomp Aeropod or the elusive Garmin Air in order to combine actual wind measurements. Your cycling speed IS taken into account but the actual wind direction and speed are not known. This data field shows the currently forecast wind direction & speed in relation to your direction of travel. Best Edge App Wind Direction by peterdedecker Plus, I rarely ride with a phone and even less rarely with one that has a roaming data plan so I consequently don’t use features like Live Tracking or data fields that require a data connection. But then I might as well just ride with a Garmin Edge. I tend to also use a Garmin Forerunner 935 as my personal logger so I have toyed with the idea of putting a CIQ field on that but of course, the limit for data fields on underpowered Garmin Watches is 2…much lower than the limit on Edge devices.
When I’m not testing bike computers I almost always ride with the new Wahoo Bolt so, sadly, I don’t get to use Garmin CIQ and CIQ is the one thing I miss as a result.
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