It's not that it doesn't create good routes – it does, generally – just that the interface doesn't make it easy. It feels very convoluted compared with, say, Strava, where you can just drag the route about until you like it. If you don't get the route you want you can move the waypoints, or you can add more and play around with their order by clicking buttons to make them go up and down in a big list. You have to add all your waypoints, and then calculate a route. It's fair to say that Lezyne's desktop offering lags behind most of its competitors in terms of usability, and that's being kind. Route generation a mixed bag good on the app There's no easy way to see what is and isn't mapped, although that will be coming on the next update of the smartphone app. The biggest map file I've generated is only about 4Mb and covers a square about 50 miles to one side, so with around 60Mb of free space on the Mega XL you should be able to cover somewhere in the region of 40,000 square miles. The map segments themselves aren't particularly big files, so you can get plenty of area covered. But if you're out and about and you need a map you don't have, it's possible to get it provided you've got a data connection. It's definitely better to do it on desktop when the Mega XL is plugged in, and the phone app acknowledges as much, suggesting the desktop route as the quicker option in a pop-up alert. A decent-sized map tile takes a few minutes to generate on the app, and as much as 10 minutes to transfer to the GPS. On the phone app you can do effectively the same thing, using the Bluetooth connection to transfer the mapping to the device.ĭownloading and syncing maps from the phone app works, but it's pretty slow. On the desktop (Lezyne Root) you can use the mapping tool to select an area and download it as a file, then drag it on to the GPS via a USB connection the Mega XL mounts as a drive in a similar way to a Garmin. To get maps on your Mega XL you need to download and transfer them. Downloading mapping: easy on desktop, slow on mobile If you're looking at the Mega XL you're probably doing so because it'll do mapping and routing, or because it has a long battery life, or both. It's usable, but it's not as friendly as some of the alternatives.Īs a general-use computer for recording your rides it's good, but there are plenty of other, cheaper options that will do that sort of thing. That's good news, because the Lezyne user interface, although it has certainly improved over the last couple of years, still has quite a functional feel, as though it's been designed by an engineer rather than someone thinking about the user experience. You can also change the general settings on the device – screen settings, navigation, personal data, and so on – so you rarely need to dive into the menus on the device itself. It has the additional benefit that you can see all the data screens on one page, so it's much easier to remember what you've put on them all. If you've paired your phone to the GPS you can change the displays through the app, which is about a thousand times quicker than trying to do it on the on-screen menus. In the unlikely event that you regularly like to look at 51 different metrics on a ride, I guess you're out of luck, but realistically there's enough space there for anyone. The Mega XL can have up to five pages of data, with up to 10 data fields on each. In use: Lots of data, easy to configure on the app Design-wise I wouldn't say it was as polished as units from the likes of Garmin and Wahoo the Lezyne computers have come on quite a lot in design since they launched, but it has a slightly industrial feel to it. But it's perfectly functional in both orientations. Personally I preferred it in portrait mode, mostly because that means you get a bit more map ahead of you when you're following a route. The Mega XL can be mounted portrait or landscape and you can change the settings to display in either orientation.
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