Garmin Rino 650

The Garmin Rino 650 GPS with two way radio updates older Rinos with a touch screen interface and triaxial compass, along with other goodies common to recent Garmin handhelds, including BirdsEye aerial imagery.

Related units

• Step up to the Rino 655t and you’ll add a 5MP geotagging camera and preloaded topos
• Going the other direction, drop down to the Rino 610 and you’ll  lose the triaxial compass and barometric altimeter, and have to settle for a les powerful –watt radio
• To see how the Rino 650 compares to other models, check out my Garmin handheld GPS comparison chart

Garmin Rino 650 FRS/GMRS radio

The Rino 650 features a 5-watt FRS/GMRS radio with a range of up to 20 miles, allowing you to see other Rino users right on the 650’s screen. Unit to unit text messaging is also possible. Some screenshots…

Garmin Rino 650 NOAA weather radio

The built-in NOAA weather radio supports Specific Area Message Encoding, allowing you to view National Weather Service warnings and watches on a county by county basis, right on the map (shown below at left).

More Garmin Rino 650 screenshots

Before wrapping up, how about a few more screenshots? That’s the altimeter screen, above at right. Below, left to right, we have the trip computer with the recreational dashboard option enabled, one of the main menu screens, and the compass screen with the four data fields option enabled.

More Garmin Rino 650 reviews

• Consumer-authored Garmin Rino 650 reviews have been posted at Amazon
• A Garmin Rino 650 review from New Zealand

I’ll be posting more hands on GPS reviews as they appear, but in the meantime, here are some…

Other Garmin Rino 650 resources

• The Garmin Rino 650 owners manual
• Garmin’s own Rino comparison tool
• A dedicated Garmin Rino message forum
• Garmin’s Rino mini-site
• Some Garmin Rino 600 series videos
• The official Garmin Rino 650 web page

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