Garmin Forerunner® 205 Appareil GPS

Pros: Small, light, rechargeable, versatile, works great with Garmin training website.

Cons: Slightly bulky shape, no map details, calorie count not accurate, training program so-so.

The Bottom Line: Recommended. This is a running/workout GPS and doesn't pretend to be anything else, and it works great for that purpose.

Review: The Garmin Forerunner 205 GPS is exactly what I was looking for in a sport GPS. Small, light, functional, and easy -- and much more convenient than my old Garmin 12 brick! I enjoy trail running, and I wanted to be able to track what I was doing a ...

Pros: Satellite reception and accuracy, features and customized screens for various sports

Cons: Lack of a decent basemap without paying extra to install one. Only 100 waypoints stored.

The Bottom Line: A convenient, powerful and worthy unit for almost any non-automotive use of GPS technology at an affordable price!

Review: My wife bikes and rollerblades a lot and would use my handheld Lowrance IFinder GO to track her speed and distance. Despite being a pretty reliable GPS (see my review) and all, she found that as it shook with her movement it would become inaccurate ...

Pros: theoretically great, lots of cool features

Cons: completely useless because distance was inaccurate

Review: I tried using this product twice, but had to return it because it was way off. It underestimated the distance I ran by about 10%. I found this out because according to the Forerunner, I ran my slowest 5K ever. But when I used mapmyrun.com, I found ...