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8 reviews
Essential for surviving
Bought this for hunting. When going to unfamiliar places it is essential you know where home is. Set a waypoint for home, and you know you're safe. Leaves a lot of breadcrumbs to map perimeters or paths in between. The ability to zoom in and out in a split second helps judge how far you've gone and where the next fence is etc. Finding the way home is so easy. Takes AA batteries so it's very easy to keep charge. I love this thing, it's already helped us find some expensive lost property by retracing our path. It has a lot of features I don't use but I bought it to help us find out way home at 2am. I don't know if it does it but would be nice to save maps of properties onto computer so I can have a saved map for each place I go to. So far the only flaw I've found is a small memory, but even 3 days of driving only used up 42% of its memory so I haven't even gone near erasing our data.Read full review...
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: new | Sold by: nofrillssydney
Is it a gps or a fitness tracker?
nice looking unit with an excellent fit all velcro strap. In watch mode it has a very large readout and great for people with eyesight problems. Backlight is awesome as is the quality of the led screen. Now for the cons - I have several Garmin units being a former teacher of gps systems I will say this is the worst of them and on par with the gps 72 from decades ago. It has no mapping capabilities as stated instead it calls user generated routes a map. The wireless capabilities are a complete waste of time. The garmin mobile app is nothing but a fitness tracker and nothing to do with gps exploration, and to utilise these functions you have to purchase add ons if you can find them. Waypoint naming is all but useless and unless you have a hard copy printout of a pre planned waypoint list, then usage becomes extremely confusing. The control buttons are the next issue, if you do not have fingernails forget it. The unit needs to be removed from your wrist to do anything. I purchased 2 of these units for exploration purposes at $370 each. In summary as a fitness device along with optional extras it may work. As a navigation device for offroad work virtually useless. As a watch - fantastic my opinion go and buy a hand held unit these things are a ripoff.Read full review...
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: new | Sold by: carls088
Wrist strap ruins this product, stick with 401 for now
Yes it's good, the phone connectivity makes a big difference, it's a great product but garmin strayed away from the 401 and gave the 601 a cheap wrist strap and didn't look as good as the 401 with the green. Over all the strap is such a disappoint I'd be happy to go back to my 401 but I sold it. Even bought the extra online wrist straps and even they didn't match up to the 401 strap. Tried to contact garmin regarding the wrist strap but was met with silence. (No surprise there). For the money I paid I expected far more.Read full review...
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: new | Sold by: nofrillssydney
Awesome GPS
Great piece of kit, love the long battery life and easy to see face.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: new | Sold by: nofrillssydney
Excelente GPS system!
Ease of use it takes just a little bit for satellite reception to adjust but after it sets in, it's pretty accurate and good to go!
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: new | Sold by: cycleogicalbikes
Absolutely outstanding products performance.
Absolutely fantastic product. Works well and wouldn't go bush without it. Went to snow and performed better than expected.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: new | Sold by: gadgetcity