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Garmin eTrex GPS Personal Navigator
from: Garmin

Price: £56.99

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Third Party New Price: £56.99
Refurbished Price: £48.00

Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days Batteries: 2 AA
Binding: Sports
Brand: Garmin
EAN: 0753759017026
Label: Garmin
Manufacturer: Garmin
Model: 010-00190-06
Publisher: Garmin
Studio: Garmin
Sales Rank: 3377
MPN: 010-00190-06

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- basic but fantastic except for trees...
I bought this 2 years ago and have enjoyed walking with it ever since - combined with maps to plot out the route it makes walking much more enjoyable as you can concentrate on the scenery not the map - and you get the computer readouts of time walking, speed, mileage etc etc. The only thing is that the aerial is not very good and the signal disappears easily in woods(even in winter!) and other times so I'd recommend to buy the later version with a better aerial. And do I miss the maps? no! you don't need a busy power-hungry screen and once you have got the hang of what it is telling you about your route and tracks then it is like reading the stars...!

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- For most, the hassle will outweigh the utility
This is my first GPS product and I hate it. It has lots of features that I don't need. The three features that I do need; reliability, good battery life and clear mapping, it singularly fails to deliver. (Granted the last is partly down to the OS). Getting the maps onto it requires more passwords and registrations than you can shake a stick at. First time around, after I had spent hours struggling with this, it transpired that the machine was faulty and had to go back. They replaced it but forgot to tell me that this messes up all of those registrations etc. I'm no technophobe, and my son is a real junior gamer. He reckons that even the simple games on it were difficult to make sense of. This was a present, otherwise it would be sold-on a.s.a.p.. ... Read More:

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- Buy the Etrex 'H' !!!
The newer Etrex 'H' model has a much better receiver than the older model. It is all you need for basic navigation. Buy a serial lead and a serial to USB converter like Keyspan to connect to your PC, plan your route in a digital map program like Tracklogs and then download the waypoints. Just use Goto to go from one waypoint to the next....easy if you label your waypoints in a meaningful way.

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- Love it
Use this mainly to navigate on grid referances, and havent gone wrong yet. I find it a bit time consuming inputing the referances as waypoints but this is mainly down to my technophobe status, as apose to a product shortfall it does eat the batterys but so do they all if you have them on as long as i do!!! Really for this price you don't need anything else if you just need to know where you are and where your going.

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- Function over Fashion
I will start by saying I bought one of these in 2002ish (when they were &150). It does everything I need, i.e. give me my OS position which I then translate using a map.
The colour is great to avoid losing it. The constrast is sufficient to display the info correctly. It gives a reasonably accurate altitude. The only downside is the RS232 interface.....where as my GPS has lasted, I have gone through about 4 laptops in that time none have which serial cables now.....but to be honest I do not upload/download....I say again it gives me my OS position and thats all I want.

If you want gimmicky colour go for a different model but beware of shorter battery life on the hills!

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