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| Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $533.32
Buy New: $380.99
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New (56)
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 1098
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Tracks: 20
Batteries Included: No
Native Resolution: 240 x 400
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 1.4 x 2.4 x 5.5
MPN: 010-00622-31
Model: 010-00622-31
UPC: 053759067060
EAN: 0053759067060
ASIN: B00128GKHG
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Top class GPS ! April 18, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
this is a perfect product...
Top class GPS, with great screen and great function.
 Pathetic April 8, 2008
6 out of 16 found this review helpful
I've owned multiple GPS units over the years, including $10,000+ marine units. Generally had great experience with Garmin.
But the Garmin Colorado is a waste of money. Worldwide basemap only sees state highways and above. That's right, for $300+ you get a worthless navigation unit!
So you have to buy City Navigator for another $145. Defective disc won't load in any of 5 different PCs. Emailed customer support - no answer in a week. Called customer support, wait times 55 minutes, 50 minutes and 50 minutes! Sent disc back asking for replacement. No response.
Never again, Garmin. Time to sell my shares.
Gorgeous Screen March 28, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is an extremely cool GPS.
The screen is gorgeous. Big and sharp. The Topo 2008 maps look so cool with shading and 3-D.
The new control wheel really makes it easy to use. Far easier than any other Garmin unit.
It is well built, looks very cool and feels really good in your hand.
The recent firmware updates have solved most of the problems early buyers encountered when it first came out. I have no real complaints or problems that bother me.
I use it for hiking, biking, and driving. I put a 8GB SD card in and was able to load a lot of maps. I am really enjoying using it on my weekend explorations here in New Mexico.
I highly recommend it. Well worth the price.
 Good Unit But... January 31, 2008
30 out of 32 found this review helpful
I have used this GPS on hikes with navigational requirements and just general testing. These are my conclusions after a few calls to Garmin Support and searching GPS forums. The good news is that it is well constructed, has many features. If you buy the city, topo, and marine mapping, you can probably do it all. It has a fairly basic ease of operation (after you get the settings customized). The bad news is that the manual is way too general and if you want to do basic custom setups, you might have to call Tech Support but the unit is so new that even they don't always know the answers (do not e-mail them questions, call instead. Much better support). That's were the GPS forums can come in handy. The problems I have encountered is first and foremost how difficult it can be to view the screen outside (especially topo detail) unless you have the sun shining directly on it. The backlight under low light conditions (shade, early morning hours) outside will not help. The altimeter does not seem to be the most accurate at times and when you have the unit turned off, drive to a new location, turn it on, the altitude can sometimes still read your last location until you recalibrate it. Even with it set to auto calibrate and full satellite bars. NMHI rechargeable batteries do not work well with this unit if you value the backlight. There is a bug in their firmware (hopefully they will get it fixed soon) that will turn the backlight off permanently after a very short time and in some cases, that I have been reading, completely shut the unit off even when the batteries have a full charge. Some people have had problems with the current time not updating even after the GPS has locked into satellites and have been told to return the unit for an exchange, but mine has worked fine. The manual tells you how to access settings but gives no detail as to what the settings mean, leaving you to experiment, dig, accidentally find what you want, or call tech support for even basic things as transferring archived (saved) tracks to your PC, transferring topo map detail, or deleting archived tracks. Some of the things I have mentioned are bugs that will hopefully get resolved with firmware updates but right now, I can only moderately recommend this GPS. It has taken me a lot of time playing with this unit, experimenting, calling tech support, and reading blogs to operate it to my satisfaction (minus the bugs).
This is a cool unit January 17, 2008
20 out of 37 found this review helpful
I replaced my 60CSx with this. I have to say that it's a good replacement. It's definitely a step up from the 60CSx. The display is definitely sharper. The 3D map view is awesome.
After careful consideration of the merits of both the 300 and the 400T I decided that it was a better choice for me to get the 300 and save the $70 difference between the two. My rational is as follows. First, I already own the Topo 2008 so I can load any topo segment as well as plan with it on my computer. Second, I also own a 2GB SD card that I can put the maps on. I don't really need to have the entire U.S. maps in the GPS at once. I doubt that many people have a real need for that. Sure, it saves you the trouble of having to load maps every time you go to a different part of the country but how many time do you do that?
Finally, after much experience with the Garmin product life cycle in replacing my GPS from Vista, to 60CS , to the 60CSx, and now the 300, I don't think it's worth it to spend the extra money for the 400T when I have all the functionality of it when I use it in conjunction to what I just described above. That extra $70 can be better put to use in 12-18 months when the NEXT generation arrives to replace the Colorado series. I'm sure it will once again be much better in performance than the current leader.
Update: After using this unit for a few weeks I have to say that it still has a lot of bugs in the firmware that needs to be worked out. Garmin support has been good as well as forums in helping to answer question about these shortcomings. In terms of the hardware I would say that it's definitely a step up from the 60CSx; however, the firmware leaves a lot to be desired. I would say that it will probably take another 6-9 months before it gets to the level of the 60 Series in terms of stability and functionality.
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