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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ever since the Colorado arrived two years ago without this feature, Custom Symbols has been on the The Most Wanted List for the newer State-named units, especially since the older 60csx had this capability. Today Garmin fixed that for some Oregon owners by announcing Custom Symbol support in their latest 450/550 beta. The Custom Symbols [...]
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 [...]
If you are a GB Discoverer user or need profile support for Custom Maps you’ll want to run Webupdater one more time this week. Garmin released more software for the Oregon, Colorado and Dakota this afternoon which was accompanied by the following two release notes: Added profile support for Garmin Custom Maps Fixed lockup while [...]
An Oregon user from Taiwan posted an interesting link to a screen shot which I thought was worth sharing. When the Oregon’s language is set to Chinese the user claims that spell searches use handwriting recognition to match Chinese text characters. From the post it sounds like the recognition is actually pretty accurate. Unfortunately [...]
