The Garmin Rino 650
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 less 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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About Rich Owings
I rarely see much discussion of the Garmin RINO series. I am interested in them, but they seem very overpriced for what you get. I do think the features could be quite useful, however. If they could have a version similar to the Motorola DTR550/DTR650 http://www.motorolasolutions.com/web/Business/Product%20Lines/MOTOTrbo/Portables/_Documents/Static%20files/dtr_Final_RPD_PropMgmt_Brochure.pdf on the legal, license free 900 mHz band they could avoid the existing FRS/GMRS users.
Conversely, if they had a VHF version on MURS frequencies, they could probably get further range outdoors than the current models. I am not sure if the existing FCC rules for MURS would allow all of the functionality of the current RINO units, though. If I recall correctly, Garmin sought and received special permission for the RINO units to do position polling.
Like this model just think it’s too pricey anyone know where to buy similar model for less
Trust me, it’s easily worth the money. When it comes to thing like this I would recommend dropping a little more money, you won’t regret it in the long run.
Very nice clock we can see in here and i know most of the viewers are choose this clock. Well technology and and new design makes it standard. So i think it will be more popular in the market.
Thanks for the detailed review. Is it still available on the market?
Incredible review. Thankfully it i still available on the market.
I’ve had one of these units for a long time. Still works.
These garmins were fantastic. Mine still works like it did 10 years ago.
Great device!
Perfect, I will be using one of these at my party hall!
NOT worth the money! Within a few months the radio stopped working on it, could not hear others through it. I use a gps year and was extremely disappointed in this one after paying $500 for it!
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Great review! And congratulations. I think you picked a winner. Thanks for sharing your thought process and criteria, including cost – I know that’s a touchy subject!