I talked to a Garmin rep at the Miami Marathon last week. He said they’re rolling out a new wrist-wearable GPS - the Garmin 310 XP (or XT?), and will be showing it for the first time at the Boston Marathon in April. He said that it will have a similar face to the 305, with real buttons, but a small antenna portion (the part that bends off the front of your wrist). He said it would be truly water resistant, and that you could swim in it. Also, it will read power data using the Ant+ protocol, meaning it can read power data from a wireless Powertap. And it syncs to your computer wirelessly using a USB dongle attached to the computer.
I love my 305, but the 405 has too short a battery life (8 hours won’t get me thru an IM).
Anyone heard of this new device? Confirm or deny rumors? Price point? Pictures?
It does exist and is trully water resistant. I live in Olathe, KS where Garmin is headquartered and many of their employees use the gym I belong to. One of there “product people” had a test unit, which they have been beta testing for about six months. He has been swimming with it since he got it to test is water resistance. From what he says, “so far so good.” He could not say if any actual tests have been done with it in an open water setting to test the reliability of the GPS signal in the water, but from what he had said the GPS should function fine while swimming. Looks similar to a 405, just beefed up a bit.
I talked to a Garmin rep at the Miami Marathon last week. He said they’re rolling out a new wrist-wearable GPS - the Garmin 310 XP (or XT?), and will be showing it for the first time at the Boston Marathon in April. He said that it will have a similar face to the 305, with real buttons, but a small antenna portion (the part that bends off the front of your wrist). He said it would be truly water resistant, and that you could swim in it. Also, it will read power data using the Ant+ protocol, meaning it can read power data from a wireless Powertap. And it syncs to your computer wirelessly using a USB dongle attached to the computer.
I love my 305, but the 405 has too short a battery life (8 hours won’t get me thru an IM).
Anyone heard of this new device? Confirm or deny rumors? Price point? Pictures?
That looks like the sort of see-through augmented reality display that MicroOptical corp. used to do, although it appears that the company no longer exists under that name.
