Garmin Forerunner 205 Handheld GPS Receiver

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 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: Large, customizable display; backlit;  easy to set up,  built in GPS; shows training history
Cons: Fits awkwardly on smaller wrists; mapping display is basically useless

As a runner, I was constantly going online to map my routes, and syncing up the timer on my iPod to guess my pace and the time of my training runs. Pedometers weren't very accurate and were impossible to set up. The Forerunner takes the guesswork out of ...

Pros: Very functional, usable, accurate, and just a good tool to have.
Cons: I think that it need to have a light for when it gets dark.

My wife and I walk on a set course around our house usually 12 laps. About half way through, we would start loosing count of how many laps we had done. When she got me this watch, I was amazed at how accurate this watch is. We will walk 12 laps and ...

Pros: Tracks well.  Syncs up with satellites quickly.
Cons: Has the ability to destroy capacitors on computer motherboards.

Our Garmin Forerunner 205 has damaged two of our computer motherboards after plugging it into a USB port.  This has only happened when the Forerunner was heavily used for a couple hours and needed to be recharged.  The first time it ...

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.

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

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 that I actually ran 3.4 miles, instead of the 3.1 that the Forerunner calculated. The whole point of the Forerunner is to measure your distance, and if it doesn't do that correctly, it is pointless.

Giving it the benefit of the doubt, I did run through some moderate tree cover. So, maybe that was the problem (although, all the documentation says it has great reception, even through tree cover and tall buildings).