The new Garmin Oregon 600 series
UPDATE: Read our hands on Garmin Oregon 650 review.
It looks like REI.com has beaten everyone to the punch, and is now shipping the Garmin Oregon 600
and 600t
. GPS City anticipates having them next week; Amazon
Garmin Oregon 600 now shipping
April 19, 2013 By 5 Comments
TomTom Runner and Multi-Sport watches announced
April 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
UPDATE: Read our hands on review of the TomTom Runner.
TomTom has announced two new sportwatches, the TomTom Runner and the TomTom Multi-Sport. The watches are waterproof to 50 meters, and support GPS/GLONASS and Bluetooth Smart. They also use “built-in sensors to count strides, so that users can monitor pace and distance even while running on a treadmill.” An optional Bluetooth heart rate monitor is available for either device. read more
It’s official — DeLorme inReach SE
April 1, 2013 By 2 Comments
DeLorme has quietly acknowledged the forthcoming inReach SE two-way satellite communicator. The big improvement over the previous inReach is that you don’t have to pair it with a smartphone to send and receive text messages. Also of note, the virtual keyboard uses predictive text. And while the unit is a bit taller than the original, thankfully it’s slimmed down quite a bit in the other two dimensions. read more
Why I love Eneloop batteries
March 26, 2013 By 22 Comments
Simply put – Eneloop batteries
Rove connects your Garmin GPS and smartphone
March 19, 2013 By 4 Comments
The Rove device connects your Garmin GPS with your smartphone
Here’s an interesting device — the Rove connects to your Garmin handheld GPS and allows you to download geocaches from your phone (great for first to find seekers) or share the trail you just hiked or biked with your social networks. read more
DeLorme inReach SE coming soon
March 5, 2013 By 10 Comments
The forthcoming DeLorme inReach SE
As previously noted, DeLorme is working on a new product, and now GPS City has spilled the beans on the DeLorme inReach SE, which is expected to hit their shelves around April 1. Unfortunately, it’s not the all-in-one GPS + satellite communicator we were hoping for, but it does update the current inReach with a color screen and virtual keyboard. read more
Two million geocaches
February 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
As Geocaching.com approaches the two million geocache mark, they’ve posted an infographic (shown below too — click for larger image) showing everything from the number of geocaches by country to a breakdown by cache type. Congratulations to the entire geocaching community as you approach this milestone. read more
Logging Caches With GSAK’s ‘Geocaching.com Access’ Feature
February 14, 2013 By 5 Comments
Back at the end of last year, you may remember that I wrote an article on Using Field Notes When Geocaching. In this article I want to build on that and show how you can use your field notes together with GSAK to speed up the time it takes to log your caches. read more
Free Garmin compatible maps of Europe
February 7, 2013 By 5 Comments
Screenshots of these free Garmin compatible maps of Europe
I’ve posted links to free international maps before, but it’s been awhile. Here’s a new site I came across that offers free European maps, including topo maps, for Garmin devices. The maps are routable and include 25 meter contour intervals. read more
New DeLorme all-in-one GPS + satellite communicator?
February 4, 2013 By 5 Comments
My mockup of a DeLorme GPS + satellite communicator
DeLorme recently posted a request for beta “testers for an upcoming product,” in their community forum, which got me wondering what they were up to. The post is gone now, but still available in Google’s cache (see image below): read more
