Garmin Edge 1040 Photos and Specs Leaked

Gonna be honest, we burned out on bike computers. How many black rectangles that’ll still be polluting the Earth 1,000 years after we’re dead do we really need? Yeah, yeah, but the one you bought 18 months ago doesn’t use an accelerometer to detect when you bunny hop over curbs, so it’s time for an upgrade.

Grab your conflict minerals and send some more kids down into the lithium mines, because new bike computers are coming at us thick and fast as all the disruptions begin to ease.

And the most significant one is Garmin’s flagship, the Edge 1040.

Edge 1040 Leak Source

We got the details from the5krunner. He got the details from the Garmin Forums. They got the details from an online store listing that went live early. And the online store swallowed a cat to catch the bird to catch the spider to catch the fly.

Garmin Edge 1040 Photos

Yep, that’s a rectangle all right.

Garmin Edge 1040 Specifications

Width – 2.3″ (59.3 mm)
Height – 4.6″ (117.6 mm)
Depth – 0.8″ (20.0 mm)
Weight – 4.4 oz (126 g)
Battery Life – Up to 35 hours
Battery Saver Mode – Up to 70 hours
Memory Capacity – 32 GB Internal Memory; External Memory Storage Available

Garmin Edge 1040 Release Date

June 8 is our bet, based on the FCC filing. Launch is imminent, at the very least.

Garmin Edge 1040 Solar Photos

The Garmin Edge 1040 Solar is real and here’s a photo of it.

Battery life so long you can start the ride when you’re born and have someone stop it when you die of old age.

Garmin Edge 1040 Unboxing

Here’s a guy opening a box. Later videos in the playlist have him tapping buttons too, if that’s your thing.

We haven’t watched it because our time is valuable, so it’s not our fault if there’s a swastika in it or goatse or something.

Our Verdict

It’s slightly larger and slightly lighter than its predecessor. Frankly, we’re not fans of the size or weight of the 1000 series.

But that battery life is a big deal. The 1030’s 24 hour runtime was impressive; it is even more impressive that Garmin has now squeezed it to 35 hours, and 70 in battery saver mode. That’s ten times the battery of the other giant black rectangle that records your rides.

There was a list of features too, but it’s fairly vague and anything we write will be too speculative. No doubt Garmin will up the stakes yet again and leave competitors with even more catching up to do though, so we might as well give them a preemptive 10/10 for the feature set. Will revise down to 0/10 if it turns out you can mine cryptocurrency on this thing.

Finally, there’s apparently a solar enabled version. Like the watches Garmin makes, but a way better application of the technology. That’s got 100 hours battery life, so would last us about a year on a single charge at our current rate of riding.