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Everything about the Etrex works; right up to the point the screen fails. And this did not just happen to me, it also happened to two friends of mine. Bottom line I have owned several Garmin products and been quite pleased but the Etrex is not reliable.
The display is dim & hard to see/read. Back light is not very bright. Tried replacing batteries (twice) still no improvement in the display. Returned the unit one day after receiving.
Bought it with the bicycle mount. It is incredible all the information that can be gleamed from the interface with MapSource. I tried the cheaper method of uploading and downloading to the unit. Use the tracks you created, later. It has a million features, so it takes a bit of reading to setup all the options. Oh.you have to buy MapSource to fully utilize the unit. Garmin eTrex Vista Handheld GPSBought it for a road bicycle, and I love it. You can plan routes, or not.
I could go on and on about all the features, for the price this unit is the BOMB.I had a sneaky suspicion that I might need to buy the software. Now that I have used it for a bit, I love it even more. So I chose the Vista. But I finally coughed up the $100 bucks (almost as much as the unit) and bought MapSource North America.Now I was cooking was gas. Received it and started using it the same day. The graphing on the altimeter is wild.
Could not get to work with Google Earth Plus, I did get to work with other 3rd party software. Uploading, downloading, mapping, graphing, analyzing my ride. The maps are incredibly detailed. However, I am so pleased with the unit that I wish I had bought the colored more sensitive(GPS wise) higher end model.
It is a good receiver, but its operational system is too simple and slow to use. But for the price, it worths.
Well priced & worked very well the first two times we used it. Easy to figure out, even my kids used it.
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