Garmin Edge 540/840/1040 Big Feature Beta: Full Details!

Garmin has released its public beta of the Edge 1050 features, for the Edge 540/840/1040 units.

Here's the links to the betas:

Garmin Edge 540/840: https://forums.garmin.com/beta-program/edge-540-840-series/f/announcements/376245/edge-540-840-public-beta---pre-rollout
Garmin Edge 1040 beta: https://forums.garmin.com/beta-program/edge-1040-series/f/announcements/376244/public-beta-23-09-pre-rollout

This allows those that are eager to start reporting that angry dog down the street as a 'road hazard' (or Dairy Queen as an obstruction), you can now do so. All of the non-hardware features of the Edge 1050 were released last night in public beta to the Edge 540, 840, 1040. The Edge Explore 2 public beta hasn’t quite shown up yet.I do want to briefly acknowledge that I think this is the first time Garmin actually pulled off both new device + beta firmware for existing devices on the *same day*.

Historically, that gap of new features coming to older devices has been anywhere from weeks to ‘never’. Back earlier this month when I met with the Edge team, they said their goal was to release it the same day as the Edge 1050. I smiled and said “That’s great!”, while inside my head I said “Uh-huh…sure you will just like my kids will pickup the Legos on the floor”. Thus, kudos to them for actually pulling it off.I legitimately think it makes a difference, from a brand perception standpoint, when companies do that. It’s become slightly more popular over the last few years, but is still somewhat rare to do concurrent-day stuff like that.In any case, onto the details!