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Garmin
eTrex

The Garmin eTrex is a basic receiver, being the bottom of the eTrex line. The eTrex line also includes the Camo, Summit, Venture, Vista, Vista C, Legend, and Legend C. All 8 eTrex units are in similar cases but vary in color. The eTrex is small and it has only five buttons on the sides of the unit for easy operation and unobstructed view of the screen.

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Garmin
eTrex Legend

With the eTrex Legend, Garmin has loaded a full basemap of North and South America into one small unit. The Legend is also designed to provide precise GPS positioning using correction data obtained from the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS). This product will provide position accuracy to less than three meters when receiving WAAS corrections. The eTrex Legend has map support for Garmin's MapSource CDs.

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Garmin
eTrex Summit

The eTrex Summit is small and it has only five buttons on the sides of the unit for easy operation and unobstructed view of the screen. The eTrex line also includes the basic eTrex, Camo, Venture, Vista, Vista C, Legend, and Legend C. All 8 eTrex units are in similar cases but vary in color. The eTrex Summit has map support for Garmin's MapSource CDs.

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Garmin
eTrex Vista

The eTrex Vista is small and it has only five buttons on the sides of the unit plus a 'Click Stick' button on the face for easy operation. This unit is packed with features. The eTrex line also includes the basic eTrex, Camo, Venture, Summit, Vista C, Legend, and Legend C. All 8 eTrex units are in similar cases but vary in color. The eTrex Vista has map support for Garmin's MapSource CDs.

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Garmin
Geko 101

The Garmin Geko 101 GPS receiver is one of the least expensive handheld units available. The Geko line of receivers was introduced in the Spring of 2003 and includes the 101, 201, and the 301. The bright-yellow 101 is quite small, but don't let that fool you. This model is still a serious navigation tool.

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Garmin
Geko 201

The Garmin Geko 201 GPS receiver is one of the least expensive handheld units available. The Geko line of receivers was introduced in the Spring of 2003 and includes the 101, 201, and the 301. The lime-green 201 is quite small, but it gives you a lot of bang for the buck.

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Garmin
GPS MAP 60C

The GPSMAP 60C is a new all-purpose unit with many new features and sporting a 256-color, highly reflective display. This transreflective TFT technology provides excellent viewing while maximizing battery life (30 hours, typical use). It also makes for easy viewing in almost any lighting condition. Extra features include rapid automatic route calculation, an integrated outdoor calendar, a dedicated geocaching mode, and a bunch of indoor/outdoor GPS games.

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Garmin
GPS MAP 76S

For the devoted mariner or serious outdoor enthusiast, the GPSMAP 76S is one to consider. The "S" in the product name stands for "sensors", because the GPSMAP 76S incorporates a GPS receiver, barometric altimeter, and an electronic compass that deliver precise location, elevation, and bearing information. The unit also contains a basemap of North and South America, including major highways, thoroughfares, rivers, lakes, and borders, with plenty of memory (24 MB) for downloading MapSource data.

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Garmin
iQue 3600

The iQue 3600® is the first PDA to include integrated GPS technology. The integrated software not only allows you to look up appointments or contacts, but also locates and routes you to them with voice-guidance commands. The Que technology delivers location awareness, electronic mapping, automatic route calculation, turn-by-turn voice guidance, and map data interface to the iQue. Que technology enables you to see where you are, find a street address, know where the next turn is via visual and voice guidance, get back on track when you’ve strayed off course, and navigate efficiently to your desired destination.

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Garmin
iQue M5

Featuring the latest Microsoft® Pocket PC software, Windows Mobile™ 2003 Second Edition, the iQue M5 supports portrait/landscape screen orientation for easy viewing of documents, videos, and web content. The embedded Bluetooth® transceiver allows the user to establish a personal-area network with computer systems and Bluetooth-enabled devices such as mobile phones, other PDAs, and printers. The flip-up antenna is adjustable for best GPS reception. The MapSource City Select CD-ROM includes more than five million points of interest (POIs) in the U.S. and Canada.

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Garmin
Quest

The Garmin Quest is a very compact automobile navigation system that can also easily be carried if you're on foot. It has automatic routing with turn-by-turn directions and voice guidance and with 115 MB of storage, there is quite a bit of room for maps.

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Garmin
StreetPilot 2610/2650

For in-vehicle use, the StreetPilot 2610 has automatic route capability, voice prompts and a large color display at a reasonable price. The touch screen and remote control allow for easy entering and retrieving information. The 2610 also features a large, easy-to-read screen, built-in maps, and everything needed to download additional map detail and look up points of interest and addresses. Select maps and transfer data directly to the unit through a USB connection and onto a standard CompactFlash® memory card. The 2650 has the same features as the 2610 except it includes dead reckoning capabilities and must be installed by an authorized Garmin installation dealer.

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Garmin
StreetPilot 2730

Not only a full-featured automobile navigation system with turn-by-turn voice guidance, the StreetPilot 2730 offers real-time XM NavTraffic, XM WX Weather, and XM Radio capabilities (subscription required). It comes ready to go with no need to download maps from your PC. The StreetPilot 2730 uses the traffic data to automatically calculate and suggest faster alternative routes long before traffic starts backing up (this service requires an XM NavTraffic subscription). Users can send XM and navigation audio to their car stereo. The StreetPilot 2730 also comes equipped with an MP3 and works as an audio book player.

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Garmin
StreetPilot c340

The StreetPilot c340 is a medium-sized navigation solution meant to be simple to use right out of the box. The unit tells you the name of the street, when and in what direction to turn. The optional FM TMC receiver lets you avoid traffic delays by telling the c340 to calculate a new route.

The StreetPilot c340 comes preprogrammed with detailed City Navigator® NT street data of the entire United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico and has almost six million points of interest. It has a 3.5-inch diagonal, TFT display with touchscreen and dual integrated speakers. It also has an internal lithium-ion battery for out-of-car route planning.

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Garmin
StreetPilot i3

The Garmin StreetPilot i3 is a very small, inexpensive automotive GPS that will appeal to the first-time navigation system user. It's about the size of a baseball, perhaps slightly smaller.

The only controls on the i3 are a power button, a click-to-enter scroll wheel, and a “back” button. It provides voice-guided, turn-by-turn directions through its built-in speaker, and the unit easily moves from vehicle to vehicle. It mounts to the windshield or any smooth surface with a suction cup mount or the supplied adhesive mount disc.

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Lowrance
iWay 500c

Portable color GPS + WAAS navigation system with touch-screen display and voice and visual guidance. Large 20GB internal hard drive, with 10GB allocated to built-in, high detail mapping and 10GB reserved for MP3 music storage to be used with the built-in MP3 player.

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Magellan
eXplorist 100

The pocket-sized eXplorist 100 recreational GPS receiver is rugged and affordable. The eXplorist 100 features TrueFix technology which takes advantage of 14 parallel channels, supported by WAAS and EGNOS for fast signal acquisition, minimal signal loss and reliable accuracy to within 3 meters. Save up to 3 track log files, 500 points of interest and 20 routes to guide you back to your favorite spots or your starting point.

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Magellan
eXplorist 210

The eXplorist 210 is the third in its line, improving on the 200 in several ways: It has more available memory (22 MB), USB connectivity, and support for maps. Aslo included is a simple file memory system that makes it easy to download and manage coordinates and other information from the Internet. Advanced features include an area calculator to instantly see the distance and area between any points, and a vertical profile screen to see an elevation graph for the path ahead.

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Magellan
eXplorist 500

With a high-speed USB data port and unlimited data storage capacity via secure digital (SD) card expandability, you can add detailed street maps, topo or lake maps from optional Magellan MapSend software. eXplorist 500 is lightweight and pocket-sized so you can take it with you everywhere. The Magellan Geocache Manager enables you to download caches directly to your eXplorist 500 and the PC-style file system helps you to easily manage all of your data. It has 8 MB of built-in maps. You can save 5 track log files, 20 routes and 500 points of interest to the 8 MB of additional internal memory, but store as many as you want on optional SD cards.

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Magellan
Meridian Color

The Magellan Meridian Color is the top of the Meridian line of GPS receivers. It features the industry's first outdoor-viewable 16 color LCD screen in a handheld GPS. The Meridian Color comes preprogrammed with a 16 MB map including highways, major roads, parks, waterways, airports, cities and more.

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Magellan
Meridian Platinum

The Magellan Meridian Platinum features a 3-axis electronic compass that provides valid readings regardless of how you hold the unit. A built-in barometer gives you advance notice on the weather, and a 16 MB, built-in mapping database shows your position to within 3 meters. The map database includes highways, major roads, parks, waterways, airports, and cities.

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Magellan
RoadMate 500

The Magellan RoadMate 500 portable auto navigation system has voice prompting, turn-by-turn guidance and touch screen technology. It calculates your route and automatically updates your directions when you decide to take a detour. Easily download the regions you travel in (up to 100 MB file size) to the included memory card, from 4 CD ROMs containing advanced mapping of the entire U.S. and Canada. Freely download and overwrite new maps before traveling to new regions. A comprehensive list of points of interest in your selected area makes it easy to choose your destination quickly. Search by name or category for gas stations, restaurants, hotels, ATMs, sights, amusements and more.

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Magellan
SporTrak

The Magellan SporTrak is the most basic of the SporTrak range of GPS receivers. It supports WAAS technology for accuracy to within 3 meters. It comes loaded with a database of over 11,000 worldwide cities and thousands of points of interest can be loaded from the optional DataSend CD.

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Magellan
SporTrak Map

The Magellan SporTrak Map features a 2 MB North American mapping database. The database includes interstates, highways, major roads, waterways, city locations, and airports. It has 6 MB free memory for downloading street-level maps and seven large graphic navigation displays. The customizable displays show a map, compass, speedometer, and text readouts of heading, bearing, speed, direction, ETA, and more. Choose from 12 built-in coordinate systems and 76 datums.

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Magellan
SporTrak Topo

The Magellan SporTrak Topo has built-in nationwide (except for 20% of Alaska) topography, major roads, waterways, and more. It comes pre-loaded with just about everything needed to find your way in the backcountry. Hikers, hunters, freshwater fishermen, mountain bikers, and other outdoor adventurers find it very useful when navigating the backcountry of the U. S. (It's available in the U. S. only). It's a medium size and of moderate weight, and appears to be a rugged design. It has 108 MB of built-in, interactive, nationwide topographic maps.

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Navman
iCN 630

The Navman iCN 630 is a stand-alone in-car navigation system. Somewhat compact, it has 64MB of map memory which can be limiting. It has very good sound and display quality, but was not without a few problems.

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TomTom
Go

The TomTom Go is an all-in-one car navigation system with software, maps, GPS and car mount that works straight out of the box. 3D or 2D views with day and night variations, touch-screen with intuitive interface, and clear spoken instructions in many languages. It is also easy to fit and remove, has 1000s of points of interests, and has a long-life rechargeable battery.

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Garmin c340 Inaccurate

Gave husband Garmin StreetPilot C340 for Christmas. We live in Kitty Hawk, NC (Outer Banks of NC). Find that directions for Outer Banks are not accurate....

Garmin Street Pilot i3

My first GPS and I love it! Some friends have more advanced models (Nuvo, TomTom, etc) all with bigger touch screens. celebrity voices, and other bells ...

Jensen NVX200 GPS

Want a real "entry-level" GPS? Look no further than the Audiovox Jensen NVX200. I actually picked one up at a local HHG for $99. (No rebates either). Yes,...

GlobalSat BT 335 GPS Logger Not rated yet
This device will talk to your laptop and tell you where you are at the moment. They all do that, I guess. This is a logger, though, so you tell it, by ...

Garmin Nuvi 660 Not rated yet
My Garmin Nuvi 660 worked wonderfully for the first 9 months. It then lost all ability to locate satellites. It was sent to Garmin (then GME in Sydney)...

Lowrance iWay 500 Not rated yet
Bought a Lowrance several years ago.(IWAY 500 )
Now they don't offer updates.
Unit works really good but needs updating.
LP Myatt

Garmin Warranty, Tech Support and MSN Traffic Not rated yet
I bought new Garmin NUVI 680 on December 10, 2007 from PC nation.

1. I used to own NUVI 350 and around March, I noticed that the “North Arrow” was missing....

Useful but ... my Garmin Colorado 300 Not rated yet
I have this year purchased a Garmin Colorado handheld GPS device. I love it. I have no sense of direction and find it very helpful. There are some buts ...

Garmin 770 Questionable Value GPS Not rated yet
I recently purchased a Garmin (if I remember correctly the model was 770). I purchased it at Sam's Club. Compared to the prices I heard at work the price ...

TomTom One Not rated yet
Last Thanksgiving I purchased a Tom Tom One for $139 (after rebate and store discount). This unit works fine for what I need to do. Six months later Tom ...

Nextar X4-T Disappointment Not rated yet
My wife bought this unit and initially I was impressed with it. The screen is large and bright, the menus are easy to navigate and use, and the voice clear ...

Garmin Nuvi and eTrex Vista Not rated yet
I have both a Garmin nuvi for street navigation and an eTrex Vista for back country use. Both have been all that you could hope for and Garmin support ...

the nuvi 250 garmin Not rated yet
The Garmin nuvi 250 is a little perfection almost... it gets you there almost perfectly... great choice for a novice garmin.com to see ...

Jensen NVX200 Not rated yet
I got my Jensen NVX200 on Dec 1st 2007. And settings that the manual says it has the GPS itself doesn't have. And just today the sleep/wake button broke ...

Garmin c340 Not rated yet
Set my C340 for a candy mfg co. in Phoenix on Glendale Ave, the GPS led me to this candy place, then I programmed in another candy place in Scottsdale,...

Garmin Vista Not rated yet
I have had a Garmin Vista (handheld) for about 2 years and it has been very useful. If you have not tried geocaching this could be a challenge and a lot ...

iQue 3600 and VISTA Not rated yet
I will never have another iQue 3600 - Once I was able to get everything to work, I wanted to place a new map on the system. Just try to delete the old ...

Mister Mitch Not rated yet
I have the Garmin eTrex Vista. It is 4 years old and has a serial connection with my lap top. I don't like the serial connection because my lap top does ...

garmin iq3600 Not rated yet
The Garmin iq3600 loses its voice when battery goes dead an you need to re-sync it with your computer that has the discs loaded. Not good when you are ...

Magellan Explorist 500 and OziExplorer Not rated yet
Magellan 500 does not talk to mapping software.

The operating system on my Fujitsu P Series Lifebook Tablet/mini laptop that is causing the problem....

Great traveling! Not rated yet
My Garmin Nuvi 350 got me to and from a family reunion - CA to TX to IN. It even saved me from getting lost when the freeway exit for my motel in Tuscon ...

New Garmin Quest Not rated yet
I bought a new Garmin Quest. It arrived with out of date maps. Garmin agreed to sell me the update. End of story. Seems to me that the map should be ...

Magellan eXplorist 100 Not rated yet
My first GPS. Tracked a snowshoe hike at Mt. Shasta California for about 5 hours and found it easy and accurate to return following our original path. Saved ...

Garmin c530 - Beware Extra Costs! Not rated yet
Have a Garmin c530. Travel a lot..many new places.
***Relied on Garmin c530 to provide the best route. Unit provides route to destination, but not ...

I hate my Garmin C340 Not rated yet
First of all let me say that I would never recommend this unit to anyone. The size is very large. There are smaller size units out there for the same ...

Garmin i2/i3 Not rated yet
The Garmin I2/I3 GPS units are very accurate. Bought 1 for myself and then 2 for both of my sons. Wouldn't be without a GPS. Will continue to use the Garmin ...

TomTom One vs Toyota Nav System Not rated yet
We bought a TomTom One for my wife's car early in 2007. TomTom updates their maps at least a couple of times a month and have given us 2 major software ...

Unhappy eXplorist 500 Customer Not rated yet
The GPS explorist 500 that I have is absolutely no good for anyone who is traveling or hunting or fishing in the New Brunswick area because it does not ...

TomTom GPS G-510 BEWARE Not rated yet
I purchased a GPS-510 in June 2007. Worked great on a trip we took to Flordia. We took a three hour trip and in the middle of trip horizontal line went ...

Garmin C340 Not rated yet
After trying 5 different manufacturers units, I decided on the Garmin C340 for one main reason; I drive truck for a living and it was the only one that ...

Using Delorme Topo 6.0 with GPS Not rated yet
I presently use a laptop running Delorme Topo 6.0 and the Earthmate GPS receiver. This system has worked well for me and prior to the 6.0 version I used ...

Garmin Nuvi 350 Not rated yet
I recently purchased a Garmin Nuvi 350. I wanted it for extensive travel in the US and to be able to add a map of Australia (where we are heading next)...

Garmin eTrex and Google Earth Not rated yet
I just bought a ranch in Junction, Texas. I went out and GPS'ed all the survey stakes with my Garmin ETrex and transfered all the waypoints to Google ...

Garmin eTrex Legend C Not rated yet
Purchased an Garmin Etrex Legend C hand held GPS for survey work with the USFS. The unit was always kept clean and in my day pack.
The unit had trouble ...

Magellan Explorist 210 Not rated yet
I was in the market for an affordable GPS to use for some community projects. I didn't need it to help me find places or a lot of the other tasks most ...

Garmin eTrex Legend Cx Not rated yet
Just starting. But I have to say the instructions are not good and it is very unclear what maps are included with unit.

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