Garmin nuvi 3700 series learns your preferred routes
I started seeing reports recently that the Garmin nuvi 3700 series will learn your preferred route, once you have deviated from a suggested route several times. I’m a bit surprised that Garmin didn’t hype this aspect of their myTrends feature, but they seem to take a low key approach and not highlight some features (like [...]
Waypoints — August 29th, 2010
Waypoints is a weekly link roundup of (mostly) GPS related news from around the Web. To get many of these stories as they break, follow me on Twitter. Odds & ends I’m tired of burying interesting stuff at the end of the post, so I’m leading with the miscellany this time! A brief test of [...]
Garmin Oregon 450 for $249.99
EDIT: Sorry, this deal has expired. You can find more bargains at my GPS Deals site. Okay, I try not to double up on the deal posts too often, but this one is too good not to post here and on my GPS deals site. REI.com has Garmin Oregon 450 on sale for $249.99 through [...]
Garmin Edge 800 announced
UPDATE: I’ve got a new page devoted to the Garmin Edge 800, complete with links to hands on reviews. Garmin announced a new cycling GPS this morning, the Garmin Edge 800. The big news is that this is the first touchscreen model in the Edge series. It also brings BirdsEye aerial imagery and Garmin custom [...]
Garmin GPSMAP 62s review
Hands on with the Garmin GPSMAP 62s It’s finally here… The Garmin GPSMAP 62s brings a long-awaited update to the fabled and much-loved GPSMAP 60CSx, which has reigned supreme as the gold standard handheld GPS for more than four years. During that time, Garmin experimented with new interfaces, first with the Colorado series, and later [...]
Garmin recalls select nuvi 2x0W and 7xx units
Garmin has announced a voluntary recall of select nuvi 200W, 250W, 260W and 7xx units, due to possible battery overheating and fire hazard. If you have one of these models, you can enter your serial number (found on the bottom or back of the device) at https://my.garmin.com/rma/recallLanding.faces
Did CHKDSK eat my maps?
I held off on posting this in order to give the the folks at Garmin a chance to investigate the issue, but the story can now be told. As I was wrapping up my nuvi 3750 review, I had the unit connected to my computer, when Windows 7 popped up the above message. I suspect [...]
Garmin GPSMAP 62
The following has been adapted from my hands on review of the Garmin GPSMAP 62s. It’s finally here… The Garmin GPSMAP 62 brings a long-awaited update to the GPSMAP 60Cx. The 60 series reigned supreme as the gold standard handheld GPS for more than four years. During that time, Garmin experimented with new interfaces, first [...]
Garmin nuvi 3760T
The Garmin nüvi 3760T, introduced the summer of 2010, is the low end unit in what is possibly Garmin’s nicest line of navigators to date. But this is not an entry level unit; in addition to many of the goodies found on previous high-end models, the 3700 series units are the first nuvis to use [...]
Waypoints — August 21st, 2010
Waypoints is a weekly link roundup of (mostly) GPS related odds and ends. To get many of these stories as they break, follow me on Twitter. GPS in the news Get a car loan, get tracked! Next-generation GPS (III) satellites almost ready for manufacturing Tracking whooping cranes with GPS A little more detail on those [...]
