The Lowrance Endura Sierra
Lowrance Endura Sierra review
October 26, 2009 By 7 Comments
Lowrance Endura Sierra, Safari and Outback
January 22, 2009 By 10 Comments
UPDATE: Read my Lowrance Endura Out&Back and Lowrance Endura Sierra review
Lowrance has posted details on their new Endura handheld series. Each model has a 2.7″ touch-screen and a micro-SD slot for maps. All three are scheduled to be available in May, not April as we reported this morning.
- Endura Sierra – This top of the line model (pictured at right) comes with a barometric altimeter, tri-axial compass, 4 GB of internal memory and preloaded “AccuterraTM high-resolution topographic maps, extensive outdoor trail networks and Points of Interest, as well as the NAVTEQ® road network for the contiguous 48 states with an upgrade option for full-featured turn-by-turn navigation.” (MSRP $549)
Lowrance iWAY 600C review
April 23, 2007 By 1 Comment
UPDATE: This model has been discontinued. For current recommendations, please refer to our auto GPS buyers guide.
The Lowrance iWAY 600C
The iWAY 600C has a large 5″ touch-screen, pre-loaded maps of the continental U.S. and Canada, plus electronic charts with depth contours for U.S. inland lakes, the Great lakes and coastal waters. It also has an MP3 player, built-in FM transmitter and 5.5 million points of interest (POIs).
25 GB of its 30GB hard drive is dedicated to maps and aerial photos. The remaining 5 GB is available to store MP3s.
GPS with MP3 players
November 10, 2006 By 4 Comments
Many auto GPS receivers come with an integrated MP3 player, allowing you to control musical selections in your car via the GPS. Some even work with Audible audio book (.aa) files, or come with XM Radio receivers. Typically, playback is paused when navigation directions are announced; some units even rewind a couple of seconds when the music starts back.
There are a number of things to consider when purchasing a GPS receiver with an MP3 player; speaker quality, whether or not you can import playlists, the amount of disk storage available for files (if the unit doesn’t use an SD/MMC card for storage), how intuitive menus are, etc. The variations are too great to delve into here. Our GPS reviews link to many user reviews, so dig deep and check them out, or find a message board for the unit you are interested in, and search or ask.
Satellite imagery and aerial photos on your GPS
November 3, 2006 By 1 Comment
Earlier this week, Lowrance announced a new GPS receiver, the iWAY 600C. What makes this unit so special is that it can display satellite imagery. It looks like they will beat DeLorme, manufacturers of the fabled Earthmate PN-20, to the punch (though no release date has been set). Actually, Garmin already has marine units that can accommodate aerial photography.
This is a rare feature, and one reason is memory. The points and lines you see on your GPS screen come from data files, not images. It takes a lot more room to store the latter. 25 GB of the iWAYs’s 30 GB hard drive is devoted to maps and satellite imagery. But hey, if they can make an 80 GB iPod, this stuff can’t be to far away for GPS. Hopefully, the manufacturers will get it right, and not charge us extra for imagery that is available for free on line.
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50 GPS message boards
October 16, 2006 By 3 Comments
Call them message boards, discussion groups, online forums, or some other combination of those terms — Connecting with other folks on the web, who are using your particular brand of GPS can be one of the quickest ways to get an answer on anything from basic noobie queries to perplexing technical questions. Especially helpful are groups that focus on particular brands and models of GPS.
A few caveats before the list of message boards…I’ve tried to screen out those groups dominated by spam. Also, some of these groups overlap, and they vary greatly in posting volume. Speaking of which, I have one tip for the many Yahoo groups below — you may want to choose to view messages on the web only, rather than by email, lest your inbox quickly become clogged. Finally, be sure to drill up and down through these websites. There were just too many forums to list them all, and there are other great message boards out there.
Lowrance iWAY 250C review
October 1, 2006 By 6 Comments
UPDATE: This model has been discontinued. For current recommendations, please refer to our auto GPS buyers guide.
The Lowrance iWAY 250C
Its maps are on a 2 GB MMC/SD card, which has 40 MB free for MP3 files and photos. This isn’t quite as nice as the iWAY 350C, which has a 4 GB hard drive for maps, freeing up the MMC/SD card for entertainment.
Lowrance iWay 350C review
June 7, 2006 By Leave a Comment
UPDATE: This model has been discontinued. For current recommendations, please refer to our auto GPS buyers guide.
The Lowrance iWay 350C
The smaller sibling of the iWay 500C, iWay 350C has a smaller screen (3.5″ vs. 5″) and hard drive (4 GB vs. 20 GB).
Compare prices on the Lowrance iWay 350C
Here’s what others are saying about the iWay 350C:
GPS Maps for Mexico
January 9, 2006 By 31 Comments
The holidays are over, winter is here, and many of us are dreaming of vacations in warmer climes. I’ve been asked a few times about maps for Mexico, and I was reminded recently of a website that offers a great deal of resources for the GPS enthusiast headed south of the border. So it seemed an appropriate time to call your attention to BiciMapas.
Although the stated focus is maps for mountain biking, there’s a lot more to the site than that. They have highway maps and digital raster graphics (DRG’s) that can be used in programs like OziExplorer. It seems like the most common format for their GPS maps is Garmin, but some maps are also available for Magellan receivers. And if Alberto Najera, the man behind BiciMapas, has his way, I’ll bet that you’ll see Lowrance maps from him before long.
Other than BiciMapas, your choices are limited. You could get the Garmin World Map
Lowrance iWAY 500C Review
January 2, 2006 By Leave a Comment
UPDATE: This model has been discontinued. For current recommendations, please refer to our auto GPS buyers guide.
The Lowrance iWAY 500C
23 readers at Amazon gave the iWAY 500C
Here’s what others are saying about the iWAY 500C:
