Description eTrex packs full-size GPS features into a tiny, compact package for a low, compact price. Follow your route, marking up to 50 waypoints; find your way back with Garmin's exclusive TracBack(TM)feature....
Reviewed by: Quinn Farol(Unregistered User)
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Car Camper
Price Paid:
$90.00
at online
Summary: I use the Etrex for all my road trips and it is AWESOME. I have tons of useful information in front of me at all times. I even use it as my speedometer! It is a well designed, ruggid device with good battery life and a customizible data screen. Not to mention the fact that when I want to get out of the car it's easy to bring along. The lack of an integrated map is the only thing that is missing, so I will someday upgrade to the Etrex Legend; it looks like the exact same device, except with mapping features (and it's blue).
Customer Service: n/a
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Summary: I was given an eTrex for Christmas 2006. I've never used a GPS before, so have nothing to compare it with, but my initial impression is of profound disappointment. A gadget geek might like this toy, but anyone who is just looking for a useful tool should look elsewhere. The user interface is dreadful.
The unit has 4 'navigation' buttons requiring iron finger tips to operate. As commented by an earlier reviewer, most of the available features are impractical to use unless you get enjoyment squinting at a screen while labourously entering waypoints the evening before your daytrip.
If the unit had one screen that boldly displayed the current grid reference and lat/lon, and did nothing else to confuse the user - that would have been ideal for my use, but instead it clutters screens with loads of useless information and features
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Summary: My little yellow Etrex has proved to be a fantastic companion over the past few years. It has been used as a backup GPS on a number of rough offshore ocean sailing trips - receiving continuous dousings of saltwater and general banging around in the cockpit. It has spent dozens of hours sliding around in the bottom of my kayak, canoe, and inflatable tender. We use it hiking, biking, and hooked to a laptop in the SUV while running a mapping program. It has never failed to turn on or quickly establish our position. It has been left on the dash, glovebox, and trunk in the hot summer and the cold winter. I have had a number of other GPS units for the boat and handheld use, but none have been as convenient or durable. I don't need mapping on the unit, so it's functions are more than ample, and I find I use it more and more in place of more sophisticated and expensive units. Batteries last a long time, and a couple extra AA's in my pocket will take care of reserve power for all but extremely long trips, where a couple more in my other pocket take care of that. I love it!!! The best $100 I have EVER spent. It still looks just like new. WOW!
Customer Service: Never needed it. I updated the software at the Garmin site and that was it.
Similar Products Used: Other older models of handheld GPS units, and fixed mount mapping units of various brands on board a cruising sailboat.
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Summary: Dont let anyone tell you that the Garmin E trex basic is not a good buy i have one and it's the best investment i have ever made. OK so maby it dont have a built in road map and maby it dont tell you where the fish are biting but its an investment that is well worth. For instance it can tell you what time the sun rises and sets. it has an odometer speedomiter max speed altitude 500 way points 10 saved trackes. let me telly this its DAMN ACCURATE TO. so dont let anyone tell you that its no good its the best in its inexpensive field and thats all i have to say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: For $100 you can't beat the value of the Etrex. Easy to use interface and well placed buttons. Easy to interface with a computer and get data from. Great battery life as well. My only complaint is the lack of an antenna. In heavy cover you can usually keep a signal but don't expect to turn the unit on once you get into heavy cover and lock on to satellites. Screen resolution is not as good as the Rino
Similar Products Used: Garmin Rino
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