Had the iGPSport 630S brought from a Chinese friend 1m ago, for about the same price, in a bundle including their VS800 light EUR 144 (same price as the computer only, so why not! - The light is quite bright, good battery 4000mAh about 4-8h in medium/"low", couple of mount options but has no good cut-off for every-day riding, but good for the night rides in the forest nevertheless).
So far, ok:
- Back from Wahoo, I needed to change the mount inlays because of 90ยบ Rotation again (Garmin style)
- Needs the phone app, which is like, ... yeah okish. Translations only English, no
- No issues connecting to the gps unit and their radar
- 👍🏻 No issues in connecting BT/Ant+ devices
- 👍🏻Battery is good so far, esp. compared to Wahoo, I used the initial charge that come from the box a couple of rides,
- 👎🏻no Intervals.icu integration / harder to get trainings on it, only way seem to be Trainer-Roads
- 👍🏻Strava/Komoot Route and finished ride sync works - occasionally it syncs automatically, but usually i need to open the phone app - not as nice as Wahoo though (You always have to copy to their "Roadbook" first, Then sync to Device, Then start on Device, Wahoo just 1 Click)
- 👎🏻Tons of default pages which needed some work to trim down via App
- 👎🏻Compared to Wahoo Bolt 2 the screen and map is slightly worse to grep, especially map is okish I would say, It shows the maps, but it's hard to navigate on it. Also on bright sunlight from above screen is hard to see, because of reflections (not with bolt)
- Similar to Bolt no touchscreen, but a little different button system which needed some time to get used to.
- 👍🏻More pleasent "beep" sound for radar warnings than Wahoo.
-> Conclusion: Good device for this price point, esp. now that the new Wahoo bolt is 2x of it... I really liked the Bolt, but only battery time was something that never be too satisfactory, and now the battery of the Bolt seem to slowly fade, so this is clearly a good alternative device for me. For Trainingrides I will keep the Bolt though, like the interfaces and Intervals.icu better here.
I plan to buy the Chinese one I mentioned above when I get to France, so I can easily return it if I don't like it. I've been using my Fenix (on my wrist) to track the rides in the meantime, and not seeing bike metrics during a ride has been interesting as an experiment.
I think I'm done with Garmin the analytics really aren't great, I resent them for not improving over time. Latest pet peeves: I do a 4h ride, hard, training effect 5.0, the watch calls it recovery. Once it's uploaded the status changes, but the watch has decided to be stupid and it annoys me. And I find unacceptable that they don't compute a training load unless you have HR (power without HR). A long list of small things that makes me want to try something new.
Edit 11 Aug 25: i just ordered the igpsport 630S, cost me 156 eur all in via Alix. my alternatives were garmin devices that were either 150 eur at the cheapest, or much more. Usual garmin comps are expensive. In this price range, there was the bryton 510E but it was 35% more expensive. The 630S, on paper, does all i need in the form factor i like. To be continued...
