GPS Devices Life

Average unit with super bismal service - Tomtom GO 510 Car GPS Receiver TomTom probably has the worst custome service I have ever experienced. If you thought Telstra or Panasonic have ba...

Must have Gadget for under $100 - Garmin eTrex® Handheld GPS Receiver Must have Toy for under $100 If you are an avid skier, mountain biker, hiker, mountaineer, boater, or you hav...

I have to start by saying: I LOVE THIS GPS UNIT!

I have been driving from the U.S to Canada, back and forth, many

times a month for the last little while, and this device has been

with me all of the way.

It has very accurate highway information, like what kind of gas station

you’ll find up ahead and whether it sells Diesel, etc., what the

exit numbers are, where rest areas are. It will keep track of your

path travelled, will tell you your bearing, avg. speed, max speed,

time good, and even altitude. Oh yeah, and of course it will give

you your latitude and longitude!

There’s so many things it will track that I can’t remember them and

I haven’t even used half of them.

Recently, I took my Garmin on a DC-10 with me…Boy did I have

a fun time! Accurate altitude, speed, max speed…and I could even see

the path we were travelling on the base map! Flying is just

so much more fun when you know exactly where you are! What’s

even more impressive is that currently most commercial airlines

don’t use GPS technology for navigation…so with the GARMIN you’re

more advanced.

This final point is important since this is the reason that the

US government lifted their degradation on GPS. Commercial aviation is

moving to GPS technologies and the government was basically required to

lift it’s degradation on the GPS signal. What does that mean to

you and me? Well, it means that this GPS unit (and all others) have

an instant increase in accuracy…of up to 10 times! So you can

basically have your location down to a few feet.

Another advantage of the GPS III+ is that it works (kinda) with

Garmin’s mapsource CDs. These CDs provide detailed map information

which (theoretically) can be uploaded to some Garmin GPSs.

One of the reasons that I opted for the GPS III+ was because of this

functionality and when I bought my device, Garmin’s web page claimed

that I could use Mapsource CDs with it.

Well, that proved to be partly true. You see, the GPS III+ has

too little memory to handle most of the map information that you

would want to load into it. I wanted to load the map info for

New York City, but the CD would only allow a predefined section which

required twice the memory requirements of the device.

This is disheartening, especially since the MApsource CDs cost over $100 US. This applied with both the Roads & Recreation and the MEtroguide USA

CDs. For the Worldmap CD, there seems to be more flexibility and

I can load country information, however the amount of detail for

Worldmap doesn’t compare to the US CDs.

Turns out that just recenlty, Garmin updated their website and now

clarify this point and that the full maps on some CDs are not compatible

with the GPS III+.

In summary: It’s a great device and I simply love it. But, I would

LOVE it even more if it had more memory or if I could add more memory!

One powerful tool - Garmin Rino® 120 Handheld GPS Receiver I decided to purchase the Rino 120 for several uses. For hunting, camping, hiking, snowmachining, flying, snowboar...

A Rider’s Point of View - Garmin eTrex Venture® Handheld GPS Receiver Pretty nice little gadget. Like I said, there is no way to recharge it, which bothers me. If you use it a lot, you...

Well if you think the price is bad… - Garmin StreetPilot® ColorMap Car GPS Receiver Well i know your thinking 890 bucks is way to much to give for a gadget like this.But my advice to you is go ...

I’m a Fan - Garmin StreetPilot® c330 Car GPS Receiver Though gadget-inclined, I avoided GPS units for a long time believing the expense simply didn't warrant the occasi...

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Great product if you need one now… - Garmin GPS III Plus Car GPS Receiver I have owned a Garmin GPS II, then a GPSIII, which I traded in for the III+ under a manufacturer's buy-back progra...

Something I do not mind telling me where to go! - Garmin StreetPilot® c320 Car GPS Receiver

Super Accurate and fast lock-on - Garmin GPSMAP® 76CSx Handheld GPS Receiver

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