 "alidas" | 2008-08-28 |
| - Reviewed By Anonymous |
| este gps reune todo lo versatil que pueda tener una unidad satelital para pricipiantes de esta nueva tecnologia, ya compre uno y estoy en epera.... |
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 "excellent package & function, difficult interface" | 2008-08-21 |
| - Reviewed By rapete |
I purchased this 60Cx, my first GPS, 6 weeks ago. My principal use is to determine location when hiking. The performance of the 60Cx is excellent, the hi-gain antenna and sensitivity give multiple satellites under almost all conditions. This is true deep in tree-shaded canyons and inside my house. The device works best when the antenna is vertical or nearly vertical. I get good reception when the GPS is clipped on my belt. This critical characteristic gets 5 stars. Battery life with continuous operation, no screen back lighting, is a little disappointing at 12 hours using NiMh re-chargeables. Not a big deal, just bring plenty of spares.
Interface, or how easy is it to use: Not very! The small cursor control, a wheel with 4 arrows on it, is hard to use. Trying to move the cursor frequently results with the desired plus the unwanted adjacent movement. For example, using the up arrow frequently gives up plus left or right. I do have man size fingers and have to use my fingernail or a stylus to prevent this problem. Accessing menus, navigating and entering data ignores conventional wisdom, in favor of an awkward Garmin version. This aspect gets 2 stars.
Miscellaneous: The packaging, excluding the small cursor wheel, is excellent. Rubberized controls and gaskets on the battery door are probably adequate to protect the device from splashes of water and rain. The belt clip is magnificent. The GPS hangs pendulum style securely in its holder, which attaches to belt or pack. It is removed easily using the release button and is reinstalled with a reassuring click. The on board map that comes with the unit is a joke. Most users will want to purchase an additional map so figure an additional $80-$100 onto the purchase price. I purchased the 24K Topo Oregon / Washington map on micro SD and find it awesome. In conclusion, I would not recommend this GPS unconditionally to a friend. The difficult interface and expense of adding maps must be individually evaluated. Four stars for this aspect.
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| "excellent package function, difficult interface" | 2008-08-21 |
| - Reviewed By rapete |
| I purchased this 60Cx, my first GPS, 6 weeks ago. My principal use is to determine location when hiking. The performance of the 60Cx is excellent, the hi-gain antenna and sensitivity give multiple satellites under almost all conditions. This is true deep in tree-shaded canyons and inside my house. The device works best when the antenna is vertical or nearly vertical. I get good reception when the GPS is clipped on my belt. This critical characteristic gets 5 stars. Battery life with continuous operation, no screen back lighting, is a little disappointing at 12 hours using NiMh re-chargeables. Not a big deal, just bring plenty of spares. br /Interface, or how easy is it to use: Not very! The small cursor control, a wheel with 4 arrows on it, is hard to use. Trying to move the cursor frequently results with the desired plus the unwanted adjacent movement. For example, using the up arrow frequently gives up plus left or right. I do have man size fingers and have to use my fingernail or a stylus to prevent this problem. Accessing menus, navigating and entering data ignores conventional wisdom, in favor of an awkward Garmin version. This aspect gets 2 stars. br /Miscellaneous: The packaging, excluding the small cursor wheel, is excellent. Rubberized controls and gaskets on the battery door are probably adequate to protect the device from splashes of water and rain. The belt clip is magnificent. The GPS hangs pendulum style securely in its holder, which attaches to belt or pack. It is removed easily using the release button and is reinstalled with a reassuring click. The on board map that comes with the unit is a joke. Most users will want to purchase an additional map so figure an additional $80-$100 onto the purchase price. I purchased the 24K Topo Oregon / Washington map on micro SD and find it awesome. In conclusion, I would not recommend this GPS unconditionally to a friend. The difficult interface and expense of adding maps must be individually evaluated. Four stars for this aspect. br / |
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| "amazing reciever" | 2008-06-16 |
| - Reviewed By User: ANC5R9AAEK6WX |
| This unit is an amazing GPS reciever, it will aquire sattelites even sitting indoors. This will replace my last garmin which was a very good entry level device, but would lose signal occasionally when under the canopy of trees while 4-wheeling. I would recomend this GPS handheld to anyone who hikes, offroads, hunts, geocaches, or just plain travels. |
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 "Cache on!" | 2008-06-14 |
| - Reviewed By joyfulnoisefour |
| You can't tell this isn't a brand new unit. It even has the warranty. It keeps a lock even in deep woods. The maps are a big help but wouldn't be necessary if people would give parking co-ordinates! My only complaint about this unit is that the SP card falls out when I change batteries. |
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| "Why i bought a second receiver." | 2008-06-12 |
| - Reviewed By apenn12 |
| This is the second 60CX I have purchased, not because the first one was bad, but bought as a gift for my spouse and geocaching companion. With the introduction of the Garmin Colorado, this receiver has dropped significantly in price this year. The color screen is very visible in most lighting conditions. (direct sun is a issue). As with all GPS receivers, I recommend a mapping package to enhance the basemap (I use Garmin TOPO 2008). There are enough buttons on the face to make operation of the receiver easy to use. if there is one deficiency, it is Garmin's documentation is very minimal and some functions I had to learn by trial and error. However, there are several non-garmin websites that provide good tutorials on the features of this receiver. The geocaching feature allow you to load 1000 geocaches. However, all show up with a treasure chest icon. If you want to see actual geocaching container types, there is a add-in to load these as waypoints. This add-in also get you around the 1000 cache limit. Overall, if you are looking for a color receiver with great features for geocaching, this is the unit. |
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| "lovein it!" | 2008-04-05 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2T5SPSIWR0F0E |
| This is my first handheld gps and i love it! the amount of information this unit can give you is amazing! i really recommend this gps! |
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| "a great GPS" | 2008-03-27 |
| - Reviewed By pastordic5 |
| The Garmin GPSMap 60Cx GPS is so great I bought my (adult) daughter one so she can have fun geocaching too. |
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 "It's essential that you understand the limitations of this device before buying." | 2008-03-23 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2BNPGBPZX8YBV |
There's no doubt that GPS technology has come a long way during the last decade. I bought this to replace my old Garmin etrex -- the 60Cx is vastly better at tracking under trees, in mountain valleys, and has a much faster processor. I use it primarily for hiking, and it is virtually impossible to become lost. Even under trees, in a valley, with the unit inside my backpack, it never lost satellite track and was never off by more than about 50 feet, comparing the hike in with the hike back.
So what's the problem? Surprisingly, the achilles heel of this mapping GPS is that there simply are no good maps for hiking/backpacking. Garmin sells a topo map set, which is completely unacceptable for any kind of in-the-field use. It lacks any kind of detail (for one thing, vertical countour lines are 150 feet, and it includes very few trails or national forest roads), and although it is nice to upload your journey to a map once you get back home and see where you went, the map itself is next to useless while hiking. Garmin makes a high-resolution topographic map set, but it covers ONLY the national parks (not even the national forests). I live in Oregon, with thousands of miles of trails, and only 1 place -- Crater Lake -- is available in high resoultion topo from Garmin. National Geographic makes a nice high-resolution map set, but it is expensive and the maps can only be loaded to a Magellan GPS, not any of the Garmins. Ditto with a GPS/topo map set from DeLorme. There is a company that has made high-resolution maps of 2 states -- Washington and Colorado -- but they require the Garmin Mapsource CD, and then they cost another hundred bucks per state on top of that.
The lack of good, high-resoultion topo maps is completely baffling, and -- at least for hiking -- makes the mapping function of this GPS completely superfluous. If I had it to do over, I think I would buy one of the newer but less expensive GPS units, like maybe a newer extrex. The extra money that you pay for the mapping capability with this unit is wasted, IMO, at least until good topo maps become available (if they every do).
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| "Great for Iraq" | 2008-03-09 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3RWJZI79HBH1G |
| This is an awsome product. What I like most about the product is that it will gather a signal inside. The signal may not be strong but it works. BUT it definately works while in a vehicle. This is especially useful for the HMMWV. I recomment this product for anyone who will be deployed. I also like the mapping feature. I only wish I could install military grade maps. |
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