When I first showed Garmin’s newest outdoor GPS, the Dakota, to my daughter her immediate reaction was, “Awwww, it’s a baby Oregon!” Her statement accurately captures what this new GPS from Garmin is all about; taking the features of the larger touchscreen Oregon and squeezing almost all of them into an eTrex-sized device. If you [...]
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 and, [...]
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 Oregon [...]
It looks like some folks in Germany at Freizeitalpin already have their hands on early versions of the Oregon 550t and Dakota 20. They’ve posted a review with video showing both units in action. If the video is any indication of the real screen brightness not much as improved, especially with the Dakota, because [...]
With every new generation of GPS receivers it seems like battery life takes a hit as the displays get bigger and CPUs get faster. The Oregon and Colorado haven’t been immune to this decline in battery life and many owners have complained about how frequently they have to replace batteries. By running some controlled tests [...]
My primary focus here at GPSFix has been on the Garmin Oregon and Colorado, but I’m always keeping an eye out for new outdoor handheld GPS’s that compete in the same market.
Several months ago DeLorme announced the Earthmate PN-40 as a successor to their first outdoor handheld, the PN-20. A group of lucky beta [...]
