Saturday, December 3, 2011
These results are much like my previous ones. Close to buildings or other difficult places the N9 GPS performs significantly worse than the Garmin. This is somewhat surprising since the N900 performs very similar to a Garmin. Could better GPS-data on the N9 be just a software-update away? When is someone going to try to [...]
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
My legs aren't exactly recovered from Saturday's marathon, but a slow 5k jog anyway today. Sports Tracker was released for the N9 last week (or was it earlier?), so I thought I'd do some GPS testing. Held Garmin Edge 800 in my right hand and the N9 in my left. The results aren't that great [...]
On Wednesday I had a Garmin Edge 800 (red line in the pics) on my bike while Risto was using a Nokia N900 (blue line). Here are a few comparisons of the GPS-traces. Our bikes were obviously not exactly following the same route, so that accounts for some of the differences. The Edge800 seems to [...]
Seen on the bus today: Yep, that's a GPS-screen top left. No need for the driver to know left from right, where the bus is, the route, or think much anything any more. Back in the Good Old Days if you took a taxi the driver was actually supposed to know where you were going. [...]
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Any snow and ice that was on the streets is gone again and +4C with little wind is quite ideal for running. 8.10km in 54 minutes makes for a leisurely 6:46min/km pace.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
I haven't completely forgot to exercise, but the lack of daylight and cold temperatures make it, at least mentally, a bit harder to get out there and run.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
The 405cx gps-watch is small and light enough to just tape to the aft-deck of an IOM. Today's event in Tampere had 12 races but I missed a few due to electrical problems. Races 1 and 2 above, and races 7-12 below. It's funny how google-maps and google-earth show permanent winter and ice in Tampere [...]
Friday, September 18, 2009
An easy jog home from work. The Garmin has an auto-lap feature which takes lap-times each kilometer. This time the N95 trace (yellow) seems less jumpy, but there's still a difference compared to the Garmin: Garmin: 8.28 km in 50 min 50 s, 633 kcal N95: 8.35 km in 50 min 55 s, 731 kcal
Thursday, September 10, 2009
A secodn GPS test, this time with the 405cx on my left wrist and the N95 in my right hand. I had hoped this would expose the N95 antenna and improve its performance. Not so. The red trace (405cx) still looks much better while the yellow one (N95) jumps wiggles and snakes around. The summaries [...]