Re: GPS 76 very early comments

nospam.gps@xxxxxxxx wrote:
the sun. In fact, the color LCD looks sooo nice under the sun I am
still amazed.


Colour is nice if you have a large display and a unit that is mounted in
a car. But for my uses, it isn't becessary and if it means less
autonomy, I prefer black&white.

Nop. All I could find at the local stores (I didn,T look that hard mind
you) was mapping units and they didn't have the 76 range. This started
off as a desire to fix myGOS II+. I had sent an email to Garmi but
necver got a reply. Started to look on Ebay and found some "new" GPSII
units but shipping was so expensive that I started to look for brand new
unit to replace my GPS II+.

By the time I had ordered this 76, I found out that Garmin still did fix
GPS II+ units for USD $89, but again, shipping would end up costing me
about $200 total in canadian funds, especially if Garmin shoips it back
with UPS which would cause me great pain and costs once I get the random
bill from the customs highway robbery firm (brokers).

More comments:

Interestingly, the display flickers when the backlight is turned on.
(but steady when backlight is off).

The "Active route" display showsx only one number next to each waypoint.
The GPS II could show 2. (I had Distance and ETE). But this unit gives
me much wider choice of values to displays, but that also means that if
I want to flip between DST and some other value, I have to "scroll"
through a longer list of items.


The Track is ludicrous. To setup track recording, you don't just set it
up from the "track" page, you have to press menu-menu to get to the
setup menu, then choose track, enter, press menu , choose setup track
log and press enter.

Tried the simulator mode, and it didn't seem to record a track.


Readable lat-long is only available on the satellite page. (and the
format changes if you press the rocker keys, so you can't lock it to
your desired format). You can have the lat-long displayed in other
pages, but it is squished into a small area, and you don't get to select
the format and it is shown in a format I don't likle (hh mm s even
though in the setup I specified hdddd.ddddddddd)


Right now, I have a very bad taste which reminds me just too much of my
experience with PSION. First PDA I had, I loved. Then they came out with
a new generation and I figured it would be a an upgrade. But it turned
out to be a dud with focus of marketing of features, fancy fonts ,
hiearchical menus etc, instead of keeping the focus on usability like
its prececessor had done so well with an even less advanced interface.


My experience so far, while not yet valid because it has only been
"first impression", gives me a bad taste for any new Garmin product
because I have to assume that they now all sport "marketing" ahead of
"usability" in the user interface design.

The Garmin bike mount has the same handlebar clamp with the flanges
going to break soon. And the cradle design is much harder to attach to a
home made handlebar clamp compared to the GPSII cradle. Thta ceradle
would be good on a boat or possibly a road car.
.

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