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Advantages: Good for outdoor activity
Disadvantages: none

Garmin GPSMAP® 60 series is your ideal guide to the great outdoor activities. The Garmin 60 Series versions are rugged, waterproof, full-color navigators that come with feature a built-in autorouting base map and include a blank 64 MB microSD card for storage of optional MapSource® topography, marine or city street map detail. GPS receivers assure improved reception in tree cover or canyons. And this Garmin 60 Series units feature auto-save of ...
...version" Garmin 60 includes an electronic compass and barometric altimeter - making it the trailblazing tool of choice for hikers and climbers. For the receiver specification, it has 12 channel SiRFstar III™ high-sensitivity GPS receiver (WAAS-enabled) continuously tracks and uses up to 12 satellites to compute and update your position ... Read review

Advantages: Great Visible Screen, Lots of Features
Disadvantages: High Cost

My husband just bought this and granted it is his first GPS system but he has fallen in love with it! He will never travel anywhere without it again. Not only does he go deep sea fishing, which he uses it for but he loves it for his off-road and on-road travel. He loves all the features that it offers him. I thought the price was pretty high because he paid around $450 for it but he does a lot of traveling for work so it pays off for him. The screen ... Read review

Advantages: All feature in one piece
Disadvantages: Cross training feature is missing

...Assisting *It seems Garmin has settled down on its well designed training model, and no further development even in Edge 705. All the training programs are available-- competing against Virtual Partner, Auto Pause for training harder, Auto Lap for renewing workout sets at preset points. Navegating *705 comes with a build in map; *A card slot enables you to plug in detailed street maps for turn by turn direction; New features There's ...
...to computer for analyzing in Garmin Training Center software; *You can share your data on Garmin Connector-- a new Garmin online community. I never imagine that an Edge can be orange, but, well, they did it. We have to accept it. Fortunately, there are black and blue available. ... Read review

Advantages: Helps you navigate a location easier
Disadvantages: none

...from city to backcountry, the Garmin nüvi 550 provides a high-sensitivity GPS receiver with turn-by-turn navigation in a ruggedized, waterproof exterior that you can use while hiking, biking, or boating. With its high-sensitivity, WAAS-enabled GPS receiver and HotFix satellite prediction, nüvi 550 locates your position quickly and precisely and maintains its GPS location even in heavy cover and deep canyons--whether in the city or out in the wilds. ... Read review

Advantages: touch screen and text-to-speech functionality
Disadvantages: route recalculations is slowly

...navigation , Picture viewer , Garmin garage , Garmin lock Traffic Services : TMC (Traffic Message Channel) Voice : Navigation instructions , Street name announcement Antenna : Built-in Features : Calculator, Clock , Calculator, Custom POIs , Photo viewer, Garmin Lock , Photo viewer, Garmin Built-in speaker, Garage , built-in speaker, Automatic Currency converter, routing , Currency converter, 2D / 3D Hands-free calling via Bluetooth map perspective ...
...path to the new calculations can sometimes on the slow side, but apart from that, and the fact that the device is probably enough external buttons do not really have too many complaints. Garmin has steadily improved and the new Nuvi 2 x 5-series - the sky is the limit. ... Read review