After checking out the guts of my Garmin GPSMAP 78sc yesterday I’ve had a chance to play with Garmin’s newest handheld marine GPS. For the most part the GPSMAP 78 is a Dakota that floats and employs real buttons instead of a touch screen. The size and layout are very similar to its predecessor, the [...]
I know, cheesy title, but I thought I’d try to put to rest some speculation around what is actually inside Garmin’s new GPSMAP 78 and probably the GPSMAP 62 which was just officially announced this morning.
I was hoping that Garmin might have decided to use the SiRFAtlasIV system-on-chip in this new line of GPS’s but [...]
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 [...]
