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As an avid cyclist making tracks and uploading them to Strava daily it's important to have a GPS. The Lezyne Macro Plus works with a smartphone using the Ally2 application to wirelessly upload activities. This works well. It's one of the features I was looking for. The screen is small and monochromatic. It uses four side buttons to control it. The buttons are hard to press. The logic of their use to operate the unit is learnable. In practice it's good. Compared to a touch screen GPS it seems limiting, but there are benefits to not having a touch screen. A lot of the settings are more accessible from the phone app. Battery life is excellent. One of the reasons for getting this unit is because the other GPS in the household quits after 8 hours. Sometimes my rides could go on for as many as three days without getting a recharge, such as on a bike packing trip. This computer is not that great for navigational purposes, perhaps. I have yet to try it out with Komoot's features for which this unit is supposedly well integrated. Will have to see. I do use and like Komoot. The small screen makes it hard to see a useful map. The turn by turn prompts of Komoot are allegedly going to work on it, but as I said have not tried yet. It's quiet. I like that. Beeps from GPS units annoy me. It does the job I need. The Lezyne mount is different from Garmin and much more secure. One O ring snapped already, so I suspect the ones that come with it are second grade. Not a big deal, but a concern. I've not lost a Garmin in years of rugged mountain biking, but I feel better about the Lezyne system by a long shot. For $100 it's worth it. To start a ride after turning it on and confirming the "bike" you are using, and obtaining GPS, I start riding and it detects movement and I press enter, the left bottom button, to start recording. It can work in landscape mode as well, but I think I'll stick with portrait. It comes with a short micro USB cable but no AC charger plug. The included quick start instructions do not explain enough. The tracks and data are consistent with other records friends get on the same activity. There are yet some mysteries about this unit. For one thing it seems as though pairing it to different phones, so a family can share it, might not be possible, rather, practical. And changing the display fields during an activity might not be possible. Haven't tried that yet though. I conclusion, you get what you pay for. As someone who has some experience with other GPS units I would say that instructions are scant and setting this unit up and using it for the first time could be frustrating. However, having used it for 2 weeks now I'm really happy with it's performance Read full review
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