Garmin eTrex GPS

I bought my E-trex via e-bay a few months ago. I'm not a serious walker, but do enjoy the outdoors and like the odd mountain bike trek. I was looking for a unit that would be simple to use, but had enough features to grow with me if my needs increased. With the e-trek vista I found my requirements. Another plus is that it is possible to use it in the car quite well. The dedicated car units are too big and not practical for hand held use, but the vista covers both hand held and in car use pretty well. It's a little small on the display side for true car navigation, but if you have a passenger, then it's not a problem as they can ...  Read the complete review

Sattelite navigation? In the palm of your hand? Surely not! Only two years ago your scepticism would have been justified, but technology has advanced rapidly during that time and it is now possible to get a range of GPS devices at a much more reasonable price. This particluar op is (obviously) on the Garmin eTrex hand-held GPS receiver, the cheapest in the eTrex family, a device aimed at the active outdoors type of a person. But first things first... what is GPS? It stands for Global Positioning System and at it's simplest can be thought of as an array of satellites circling the earth, each sending out a time signal. GPS receivers pick up these ...  Read the complete review