I’ve been generally ‘satisfied’ with the recent GPS performance of the Garmin Forerunner 945 and with the Polar Vantage V TITAN. In particular, the Vantage V TITAN is significantly better than the original Vantage V compared to when I tested it last year. Whether or not this is due to better GPS firmware updates, or…
I’ve probably spent a little too long recently looking at GPS (GNSS) plots of numerous runs that I’ve done, attempting to see if GPS+GALILEO offers any improvements over GPS-only or GPS+GALILEO. In hindsight, the inordinate amount of time I spent looking at google map plots would have suggested, in itself, that there is no obvious…
I’m having a quiet few weeks (partly) away from the gadgets and away from training to a degree brought on by ‘other’ work, completing tax returns and tapering for my B race. I’ll tell you about the race next week if it goes well in 30c degree heat 😉 The last time I did this…
We have had some sporty gadget excitement over the last few weeks. First with GALILEO being included on the Fenix 5 Plus Series. Second with the original Fenix 5 Series AND the Forerunner 935 also being retrofitted with GALILEO. So What’s the big deal? Positional accuracy should really be described in terms of GNSS. We…
There seem to be a nice little spate of firmware hitting the interweb thingy around about now. Suunto 9 – is now on v2.1.54 (from 2.1.42). Although there often seems to be quite a variation of versions that people have. v2.1.54 mysteriously delivers performance and stability improvements. Those updates are always better than the ones that…
The 935 is getting GALILEO too Last week we saw that the Fenix 5 ORIGINAL range are getting GALILEO GNSS, first in beta before being rolled out probably in July. Garmin * Fenix 5 Original * GETS GALILEO NOW – beta for 5, 5S, 5X and Chronos But as of NOW (Wednesday 27 June,…
The existing Garmin Fenix 5, 5S and 5X have JUST had GALILEO support rolled out in beta. It doesn’t yet appear to be available for the Forerunner 935 but will surely follow in due course. To be clear: This is NOT the Garmin Fenix Plus (review ed here) series. It’s the regular 5 Series This…
The Garmin 745XT is due for 2018
The Foretrex 601 and Foretrex 701 will be released in Q3.2017 and come with out-of-the-box support for GPS+GLONASS + GALILEO satellite constellations. These are NOT endurance sports devices and they are not pretty. But they indicate that Garmin is actively supporting the high precision potential of the Galileo system. Galileo went ‘live’ in an early…
Currently, many sports devices use GPS for positioning. There is a constellation of up to 31/32 GPS satellites at any one time doing their thing. Not all are operational at any one time. GPS is the name specifically for the American positioning system. It’s fairly hard to get GPS accuracy below 5m, indeed the precision of GPS…
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