Arguably, some bod riding off-road (in London) is not going to need something in Yorkshire at that vey moment or maybe postcodes at all. Similarly, the hardcore off-roader is unlikely to need fully functioning on-road bells and whistles.
It strikes me, that the two devices, the XT and the 700i, serve two different uses and two pretty different markets, with the XT just winning over the 700i in the ‘one device to do it all’ battle.
If bods are not careful they end up with the overblown Garmin devices that we see today, with all the ‘must have’ windy roads, music, telephone, text, weather, tell me my lean angle, tell me my tyre pressure, tell me about my inside leg measurement shite bolted on, nine-tenths of which only serve to confuse most owners. Bods are even complaining that the ‘must have’ wireless updates are too slow.
True, Wapping, but someone travelling the TET in Portugal might conceivably need to find a hotel 300km away, but you can just do that on your phone. If you can then get the location of that hotel easily into your Garmin, then job done. You can do that really easily on the XT, and you can also do it on the 700 but I haven’t quite figured it out yet.
For one device, I think it’s the XT. It’s only lack is the ability to use the UK OS maps.
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