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Garmin NUVI 1300 – GPS That Meets Your Needs!

Written by brianw on May 3, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Garmin NUVI 1300 is one of the best product from the Garmin Company is known to make world-class GPS gadgets that are the best in their class. This ultra slim gadget is portable and is easy to carry around in your pocket. It is very light in weight, feather light some have said. You can keep Garmin NUVI 1300 with you all the time, even when you are travelling on foot. It shows you routes that are closest to your destination that will save your time and your fuel. In addition, it says aloud all the street names; gives you turn-by-turn directions to your destination.

Price Range:

This slim and almost weightless Garmin NUVI 1300 GPS will cost you between 150 dollars to 200 dollars. It is very cheap and it gives you a lifetime worth of performance. This is the reason why every year, millions of these devices are sold all over the world. This gadget is for everybody because of its low price.it does not matter if you are a regular mom or a cool dad or even a CEO of a company, this gadget will help you find your way and you will get help from it no matter where you are.

Magellan eXplorist 710 Waterproof Hiking GPS

Written by brianw on May 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment

After successful release of eXplorist 610, Magellan produced Magellan eXplorist 710 Waterproof Hiking GPS, which has one new feature compared to eXplorist 610.

But let us explain about the features available on Magellan eXplorist 710. The most important of eXplorist 710: It combines high sensitivity GPS reception with easy to read mapping and accurate navigation. With this gadget you can find your way using more than 30 navigational data fields, then create waypoints, record tracks, and route from point to point. The microphone, integrated 3.2 mega-pixel camera and speaker enable you to record geo-referenced images and voice notes. And you can upload your outdoor adventures to the internet, share it with your communities or justa store it to your computer.

Magellan eXplorist 710 completed with the most accurate maps such as the World Edition map allows for 2D or 3D viewing angles. It includes a complete road network in United States, Canada, Western Europe, and Australia and major roads throughout the rest of the world and provides cartographic orientation in almost any location. This unique, preloaded map also includes water features, urban and rural land use, and a realistic shaded relief background. Magellan eXplorist 710 also includes City Series and Summit Series USA maps. Summit Series USA is a highly detailed topographic map based on 1:24,000 scale source maps, includes contour lines, land use areas, trails, waterway7s and points of interest, locate the nearest trailhead. You can search for the nearest bike shops, fuel stations, or potable water source. Then Magellan eXplorist 710 lets you navigate safely in 3D perspective view while knowing the boundaries between private and public lands. City Series USA allows your eXplorist 710 to navigate through the city streets with turn-by-turn directions on your way to escaping to your favorite open spaces. Enter a variety of destinations, including address book entries, waypoints, geocaches, or previous destinations.

Magellan eXplorist 610 Waterproof Hiking GPS Review

Written by brianw on May 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Magellan eXplorist 610 Waterproof Hiking GPS is really great GPS for hiking and outdoor adventures. Has elegant design, many people were satisfied with this Magellan eXplorist 610.

Magellan eXplorist 610 has many great features, and I will explain it here. The eXplorist 610 hiking GPS combines high sensitivity GPS reception with easy to read mapping and accurate navigation. You can find the way with more than 30 navigational data fields. Outdoor lovers can use the integrated 3.2 mega-pixel camera, microphone, and speaker to record geo-referenced images and voice notes. Bring back your outdoor adventures on the device, on your computer, or share with others online.

The eXplorist 610 offers paperless geocaching. You can download and view more than 20 unique characteristics of each cache and view, search, filter on the device with details include name, location, description, hider, size, difficulty, terrain, hint, and recent logs created by other geocachers. Magellan eXplorist 610 features the most accurate maps with the World Edition map allows for 2D or 3D viewing angles. It includes a complete road network in United States, Canada, Western Europe, and Australia and major roads throughout the rest of the world and provides cartographic orientation in almost any location. This preloaded map also includes water features, urban and rural land use, and a realistic shaded relief background. The eXplorist 610 also includes Summit Series, a highly detailed topographic map based on 1:24,000 scale source maps. The map includes contour lines, land use areas, trails, waterways, and points of interest. With Magellan eXplorist 610 other features you can locate the nearest trailhead, search for the nearest bike shops, fuel stations, or potable water source. Then navigate safely in 3D perspective view while knowing the boundaries between private and public lands. Magellan eXplorist 610 combines the user friendliness of a touch screen with the reliability of two customizable hard buttons.

Garmin Dakota 20 Waterproof Hiking GPS

Written by brianw on May 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Garmin Dakota 20 Waterproof Hiking GPS is a great GPS tracking for outdoor navigation like hiking or riding a bicycle. It has a bright screen that is easy to read it under the sun light.

Garmin Dakota 20 GPS comes with 2.6-inch color touchscreen display with easy interface to use, so you just need a little time to operate this GPS to get information and spend more time enjoying the outdoors. The Garmin Dakota 20 has a waterproof cover so you don’t need to worry if the gadget sink into water. Furthermore Dakota 20 is built to withstand the elements: bumps, dust, dirt and water are no match for this rugged navigator.

With a built-in 3-axis electronic compass, Dakota 20 will shows your heading even when you’re standing still or not holding the device level. Its barometric altimeter tracks changes in pressure to pinpoint your precise altitude, and you can even use it to plot barometric pressure over time, which can help you keep an eye on changing weather conditions. Garmin Dakota 20 also has a high sensitivity WAAS-enabled GPS receiver with HotFix satellite prediction, it locates your position quickly and precisely and maintains its GPS location even in heavy cover and deep canyons.

Garmin Oregon 550 Waterproof Hiking GPS

Written by brianw on April 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Garmin Oregon 550 GPS is a Global Positioning System made by Garmin for hiking and tracking adventures lovers. This gadget completed with rugged outdoor touchscreen navigation, a 3.2 megapixel digital camera, a high-sensitivity GPS, barometric altimeter, 3-axis electronic compass and microSD card slot. That’s so complete features!

Garmin Oregon 550 Hiking GPS has main feature, ie capture locations and memories with 3.2 megapixel autofocus digital camera with 4x digital zoom. This feature lets you capture locations, and each photo is automatically geotagged with the location of where it was taken, allowing you to navigate back to that exact spot in the future. You can snap and view pictures in landscape or portrait orientation. With 850 MB of internal memory in this Garmin 550 GPS, you’ll never miss a photo opportunity. Then you can store or share your captured photos online. All you can do is just connect your Garmin 550 GPS to your computer or laptop via USB, go online, then log in at my.garmin.com, and the last, upload and store your photos at Picasa. You can expand memory size in your Garmin Oregon 550 Hiking GPS by inserting a micro SD card.

The other features of this Garmin Oregon 550 GPS are this gadget has a built-in 3-axis tilt-compensated electronic compass, which shows your heading even when you’re standing still, without holding it level. Its barometric altimeter tracks changes in pressure to pinpoint your precise altitude, and you can even use it to plot barometric pressure over time, which can help you keep an eye on changing weather conditions. And with Garmin 550 GPS’s high-sensitivity, WAAS-enabled GPS receiver and HotFix satellite prediction, Oregon 550 locates your position quickly and precisely and maintains its GPS location even in heavy cover and deep canyons.