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This week’s lead image is of the Trimble TopoCharger, a new ruggedized iPhone case that adds battery life and topo maps; due in November.
From GPS Tracklog
Our posts from the past week:
Garmin
- Garmin Batteries Prone To Early Failure, Suit Says
- The first review of Garmin’s new HUD
- Garmin Vector 2.0 Predictions
- A whole series of Garmin Vector videos
Updates
- Garmin updates this past week: Approach S2/S3, Astro 320, RV 760, zumo 350
- TopoFusion beta 4.80 and 4.81 (fixes this issue)
A year or so ago I changed my tracklog settings to one point per second, which gave me more accurate trail mileage and 
We’ve known about this one for 
brings the biggest update the Oregon series has seen, adding GLONASS capabilities as well as significant screen and interface improvements over the older Oregon 450. Since handheld GPS are such complex beasts and you could write an entire book on the Oregon 600’s functions, I’m going to focus my review on what’s new, starting with the hardware.