Anybody have some good info on a release date? My 201 unit is broke and am contemplating waiting for the 301 which allegedly has a HR monitor.
I have seen the 301 at the motionbased.com booth at Interbike. I don’t know the release date but I think it is very soon. It does indeed have a heart rate monitor and the terlemetry from that should be uploadable to motionbased.com soon I am told.
I was interested in this unit when Tom mentioned it on his Interbike reviews. This is the email that I received when I inquired about the 301.
Thank You for contacting Garmin International. I will be happy to help
you
with this. Garmin currently offers one unit with the 301 model
number.
This is our Geko 301. This unit has been out for some time. I am
unable to
talk about any unit that has not been officially announced due to legal
ramifications. Any new product that is announced is listed on our
website
immediately under the Garmin News Flash header > www.garmin.com
Please contact Garmin Product Support should you have any additional
comments or questions.
Best Regards,
I know nothing about release dates, but considering how close Christmas is I’d think they’ll be releasing this product soon if they are smart.
Tom - was there any guidance on price point? Thnx.
Available January 2005, according to this - http://www.sportsim.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=120.
The interesting part is, it seems to be available already in EU:
http://www.ece.no/aspx/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2Faspx%2Fprdinfo.aspx%3Fplid%3D12548&plid=12548
http://www.dinpris.no/prices.x?cid=1&gid=186&sid=779&pid=43689
Thanks for the info Shony.
What do those sites say? Damned public schooling in America. Can someone translate the price for me to US$. Again, damned US schools, my math skills suck-ass also as do my research skills. I imagine it has all that the fr201 has with the addition of a hrm so I am sold already. I’d love to add it to my x-mas list but need to provide a price as well as where to get it to my family otherwise it won’t happen and I’ll end up with some POS that is similar but not the same. Thnx!
If the price is in Sweden’s Kronor, then it’s about $348. Of course, if it’s not Kronor, then this is totally wrong. The first page had the 201 listed in kr so…
putting the price in Norwegian Crown on that site in a currency calculator makes the 301 cost US$399 which seems a bit on the high side.
On that site the 201 seems priced at US$299 while here it’s available around $120 (on amazon), given all this I wouldn’t be surprised if the 301 was street priced in the US$169-199 range once it’s out for a while…