Having owned 3 different Garmins I am not surprised that he has such problems with it. All 3 have been badly thought through and for me, enough is enough. Also, you can’t beat OS, so without it the other two will never compare.
and right away, the colorado guy runs into the biggest problem with this unit. which is extremely short battery life when you’re using controls and navigating screens a lot.
I have heard the Colorado wheel navigation takes some getting used to, but I have to agree the old bungler had the Garmin set up for failure by not having charged batteries, not re-calibrating the compass and not holding it level, he was holding it upright, the screen said right on it “hold level”
Also they should compare apple to apples on interfaces, if they wanted to talk about ease of input, use the Garmin Oregon instead since then they would both be touch screens. I have heard that you should manually reduce the amount of track-log to get more accurate results than the default.
still love the GARMIN Colorado and am gonna get a handheld GPS wich one shall i get?
The problem is that when he changed the batteries, he needed to re-calibrate the compass, otherwise it loses accuracy. I learnt this the hard way as well, but it is very easy to do, and once that’s done, is spot on.
You’re saying that the Garmin gives inaccurate results when the battery is low? He clearly showed that the device was operating when he said that it was too slow to keep up with changes in direction.
I agree with Zedith, if you want it to work you need to charge it first. Plus it seems the old man was a bit of a bumbler. Things might have been better with a less, how should we say, odd tester.
Its too bad that SATMAP does not cover Canada. It looks very impressive.
I’ve got the Garmin E-Trex Vista C, had it a few years. Mainy use it to give me a grid ref. The batteries last ages, virtually indestructible, accurate to within a few metres. I’ve got the UK topo map loaded onto it too. Got me out of a few scrapes.
Of course, NEVER go out walking without your paper OS map.
The Colorado does have a technical learning curve to it, but it is WAAS enabled (close to 3 meter accuracy). Anything from Magellan is going to shabby, especially their North American customer service department. I never heard of Satmap and will be looking into this brand.
No way I belive that the Garmin is that bad. Of course the device does not work if you DONT CHARGE IT before you leave. Wonder how the results have been if some of the others had it…
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