Garmin Oregon 450 review

Hands on with the best Oregon yet
The Garmin Oregon 450 is one of the newest members of the touchscreen Oregon family, featuring the latest improvements such as better visibility, a tri-axial compass, custom dashboards, advanced track navigation features and the ability to load custom maps and BirdsEye aerial imagery. I’ll delve into those details [...]

More on Garmin BirdsEye aerial imagery

The BirdsEye aerial / satellite imagery subscription program for the Garmin Colorado, Dakota and Oregon series is now official. EDIT: I’ve learned that Garmin decided not to support BirdsEye imagery on the Dakota 10, due to its lack of an expansion card slot. I have a few tidbits to add to my [...]

Garmin BirdsEye Satellite Imagery

EDIT: I’ve learned that Garmin decided not to support BirdsEye imagery on the Dakota 10, due to its lack of an expansion card slot.
It looks like Garmin is getting ready to announce a BirdsEye satellite imagery subscription program for owners of the Colorado, Dakota and Oregon handheld series. Similar to DeLorme’s Map [...]

Garmin Oregon 550

UPDATE: It appears that newer production runs of the 550 series models are now getting the brighter screen first introduced in the Oregon 450 series.
The Garmin Oregon 550 is one of Garmin’s top of the line touchscreen handheld units. It comes equipped with a 3.2 megapixel, 4x zoom, geotagging camera and tri-axial compass. Also included [...]

Waypoints – December 8, 2009

It’s a good day to be the owner of a Garmin Oregon and / or Motorola Droid…
Garmin Oregon beta
Garmin has rolled out new beta firmware with some great added features. These include:

Customized dashboards can now be added to the map and computer screens. Dashboard options include Compass, Stopwatch, Active Geocache, and [...]