REI’s Labor Day Sale is running from today until September 6th and they are offering a great deal on the Garmin Oregon 450 which has been marked down to $249.99 from $399.
The Oregon 450 is our favorite touch screen Garmin handheld and the value at $250 is fantastic — this is one of the [...]
Multi-cachers rejoice!
Updated: GPSMAP62/78 2.44 Beta also includes multi-caching support and possible altimeter improvements.
If you use an Oregon or Dakota you are probably tired of your friends who own 60CSx’s snickering at you every time you have to enter coordinates for a multi-cache or mystery cache in the field. On the newer units once you enter [...]
Last week’s beta release (3.61) for the Oregon x50 adds some key features for owners of Garmin’s high-end outdoor units, not the least of which is the reintroduction of some tracklog archiving features only available on some of its older handhelds like the GPSMAP 60Csx. The full release notes for this beta include:
Added Track Archiving
Added [...]
In response GPS devices like the Lowrance Endura and Magellan eXplorist GC which support geocache filtering, Garmin released beta software yesterday which adds this feature to the Dakota and Oregon. Geocache filters allow you to view the geocaches loaded on your GPS which match the criteria of a filter that you create, especially useful with [...]
Zagg has extended the sale which will get you 50% off everything on their site including invisibleShield screen protectors. If you missed the deal yesterday you have until 12 midnight Pacific Time to make your purchase! International sales are included in this promotion too.
Although I’ve never completely understood the benefit of using WAAS in an outdoor handheld GPS there has been quite a bit of stir on the Oregon wiki about poor WAAS/EGNOS performance. We posted about the problems with WAAS when we first tested the Oregon 400 almost two years ago and reiterated the same concern on [...]
Zagg is running a sale for today only which will get you 50% off everything on their site including invisibleShield screen protectors. InvisibleShields are a great way to prevent screen scratches on your Garmin GPS. I have them installed on all of my units, and they keep my touchscreen Dakota’s and Oregon’s looking [...]
