Update 1/18: Garmin officially announced BirdsEye today. Availability is March 2010. Details are still a bit sketchy but it looks like Garmin is finally releasing an all-you-can-eat satellite imagery subscription called BirdsEye for their outdoor handhelds that support Garmin Custom Maps. For $30 a year Oregon, Colorado and Dakota users who install a yet to [...]
The entire Oregon and Dakota line exited another beta phase today with new official releases of software from Garmin. Nothing very interesting to report since we’ve seen all of this in the prior beta releases but obviously Garmin is feeling good enough to make it official. The major improvements include support for new dashboards, dashboards [...]
Garmin has gone crazy with the concept of dashboards in their newest beta software which was released yesterday for the Oregon 300/400 and Oregon 550. Dashboards are widgets which give you the ability to customize the appearance of pages on your GPS. Prior to this release Garmin had provided five different dashboards to customize the [...]
After a relatively bug free introduction Garmin has released its first maintenance release, 2.3, for the Garmin Oregon 550 and 550t. Garmin lists the following release notes: Added LKS92 map datum Added GPS firmware 3.70 Added support for GPI Routes Added thumbnail to camera page for quick review/deletion of most recently created photo Added estimation [...]
The Garmin Oregon 550t and Garmin Oregon 550 are now in stock at Amazon this morning. The 550t is selling at $582 which is slightly below the $599 MSRP and the 550 is selling at the MSRP of $499 through a 3rd party reseller but stock looks low on the 550.
In a nutshell, so far so good. I think back to the first weeks (or months?) after the releases of the Garmin Colorado and Oregon and I never would have left home without a backup GPS. This past week I traveled many miles with my Garmin Oregon 550t by car, by boat and on foot [...]
Today online retailers like GPSNow.com started shipping Garmin’s new top of the line outdoor handheld GPS, the Oregon 550 and Oregon 550t. I’ve been able to get my hands on an Oregon 550t and will kick things off with a first impressions post to detail my experience with the new GPS receiver. The two new [...]
