Garmin Edge 800 Listed

willbevan

Hmmm,

Edge 800 listed on the garmin webpage

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID ... 3#specsTab

Product ID - 010-00899-00

Different to the 705 etc, no pics or anything just bare bone

Going to be watching this space

amaferanga

Based on the spec it looks like its a 705 with 200 waypoint limit (instead of 100) and auto scroll!

ilm_zero7

excellent - does this mean the 705 i want will go in the clearance sales?

amaferanga

No. Garmin's don't get cheap. Look how much it still costs to buy an Edge 205 or 305.

willbevan

as said above, doubt they will go cheap.

Only time i've seen edges go cheap was at Halfords I think, 50quid for 205, 100 for 305 (stupid price for 205).

Went very very quickly!

Doesnt help the exchange rate went bad, I bought mine for about 230 about 2 years ago(Amazon.co.uk), and my club mates have bought them for around the same recently, but only by going to random smaller companies.

Hopefully it will be more of an improvement than just waypoints and autoscroll (I never used autoscroll on my FR305)

Wouldnt mind the HR graph as on the 500 (but ability to select power etc, but then its only a gimic)...

Will wait to see

sungod

if the spec. is correct then it seems to be a 705 with trivial sw changes, otherwise hard to see how it can be exactly the same size and weight

which is good, no risk of developing expensive 705 obsolescence pangs

markmod

Page has now gone??

hugo15

Yes the page seems to have gone for me too. I tried a search of the Garmin site but the link it gave me was dead.

moonshine

hugo15 wrote:

Yes the page seems to have gone for me too. I tried a search of the Garmin site but the link it gave me was dead.

OOOHH! Conspiracy Theory!!!! someone in Garmin has now got the sack!

willbevan

I can still access the page, defietly not cached as I am now home on a different PC.

Hm looks like it also no longer has wireless data transfer with other units, been handy sharing gpx routes and courses via ANT+!

redddraggon

It did stop working, but it's working again now.

dodgy

Looking forward to seeing this formally announced with pictures etc. This is exactly the pattern of events when the 605 and 705 came out. Fleeting glimpses on Garmin's web-site, then taken down when the webmaster realises his 'error' etc

willbevan

will have to be some good functional increases for me to upgrade, which I can't see happening, but we shall see!

dodgy

Someone should've got a screenshot before Garmin pulled it 8)

willbevan

there wasn't a picture of the unit when I posted up the link., only a feature matrix. very little difference from the 705, some things like waypoints increased and loss of wireless data transfers, we shall see

1_reaper

Hmmmm. Was going to get a 705. Shall i hold out for this model :? decisions,decisions :?:

chrisba

if you google Garmin 800 you also get a link to the owners manual, which leads to "Document not available" message. It sounds like somebody put the stuff up too early, and it's been pulled by product marketing.

I work in hi-tech product sales, and this kind of thing happens a lot, sometimes deliberately.

Seems almost certain that there will be an 800, and fairly soon, but it might have been pulled because the product isn't as ready as they thought it was, or that they have decided not to market it after all for some reason. Or they might have decided to change the name to something else, so have pulled all the marketing materials until it's rebranded.

mroli

Review on homepage now of this site.

Jeff Jones

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/g ... view-27494

amaferanga

Looks good, but expensive.

redvision

are there any actual dates for when these will be on sale?

obviously it has to be soon, but i cant find it anywhere (not even to preorder)

seems strange launching it towards the end of the season...although i guess xmas is around the corner.

AidanR

http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2010/08/garm ... -look.html

http://gps.about.com/od/sportsandfitnes ... Review.htm

Burton

I.W.O.O.T

Now please!

Anyone want to buy a perfectly good unmarked 705 that hasn't had any of the dramas that some people post about?

Gazzaputt

I've found my xmas present then.

dodgy

Mid October release, that's probably a US date, so we'll be lucky to get them before the New Year. But we shall see!

Jonr

One of the big differences to me is the mapping. It can take a version of the ordnance survey landranger 1:50,000 and some 1:25,000. Much better than the existing topo maps that were available with the 705 that I'd read were pretty rubbish for anything of road. I was holding off buying the 705 as I had a feeling something like this would soon be available in line with there other treking offerings such as the dakota and oregon I think they're called.

It would be good if they could add a phone, mp3 player, camera, web browser, games console, radio and pc etc then we could have just one do it all electronic device to carry around.

1_reaper

I looked on the Amazon website and there saying 10th October for £399.99p.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garmin-Edge-Per ... 465&sr=8-1

redvee

Read about the mapping and have already got GB Discoverer, stil not 100% that it works with my 705 though.

Anonymous

Bloody hell, it's heavy!!

1_reaper

Still want one

redvee

NapoleonD wrote:

Bloody hell, it's heavy!!

Some error me thinks

# Item Weight: 998 g
# Boxed-product Weight: 454 g

Thats because it comes loaded with software