The new Edge 1000 comes with the largest display of all Garmin bike computers on the market. For the first time, you can use the pre-installed bike map in both portrait and landscape format. An ambient light sensor ensures excellent readability thanks to intelligent display lighting, and an energy-saving standby mode ensures a particularly long runtime. Also new are dynamic, performance-based training plans with a calendar function. Absolute highlight of Edge 1000 is the new performance function Segments: You can virtually compete with friends or other users on route sections that you can define yourself and become the new number 1.
Special route sections - eg sprints, climbs, descents or the like - can be used as Segments mark and on the Edge 1000 transfer. The best performances of friends and other users are automatically synchronized every time they are connected to Garmin Connect. The device then creates virtual opponents for these sections of the route based on the times previously driven by other users. When you approach a segment, one of the Edge 1000 point it out and you can compete against the virtual competitors in real time. Only those who are fit enough and pedal with motivation can break the record and become the new number 1 in a segment.
The new features at a glance
- 3-inch touchscreen, usable in portrait and landscape format*
- pre-installed Garmin cycling map Europe: routing by address possible, updates free of charge
- Segments: Define route sections and compete against the best times of other users
- Round trip routing: Route suggestions depending on activity and route length
- connectivity: WLAN, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy and ANT+ enable live tracking, automatic uploads, smartphone notifications, gear display for Shimano's electronic Di2 shifters
Garmin's new GPS bike computer is factory-equipped with the fully routable Garmin bike map of Europe. Depending on the activity profile (road bike, MTB, touring bike), routing parameters and map display are automatically adjusted. The newly integrated function Round Trip calculates three different suggestions for circuits based on the selected profile and a specification for the length of the route. Also according to the personal preferences of the driver, the Edge 1000 thanks to the new 3-inch touchscreen in portrait and landscape format (only available with the first firmware update; planned for May 2014). The capacitive display can also be operated with gloves and when it is wet. An ambient light sensor ensures intelligent display lighting and thus not only optimized readability in all lighting conditions, but also longer battery life. The new sleep mode also enables the longest possible driving pleasure with just one battery charge.
The Edge 1000 is expected to be on the market in the second quarter of 2014. Non-binding retail prices: 499 euros (Edge 1000) or 579 euros (Edge 1000 incl. premium heart rate monitor, speed and cadence sensor). For more information, go to www.garmin.de