Garmin GPS III Waterproof Hiking GPS by Garmin
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Digital camera reviews of Garmin GPS III Waterproof Hiking GPS
Digital camera Review: Great unit
Summary: 5 Stars
Used this unit for the first time in Detroit and it performed beautifully. I found streets with ease it helped find a location with no problems. Downloaded the topo info from a CD rom and it works great not a problem.Digital camera Review: I was just about to buy it but.....
Summary: 1 Stars
I was already getting out my credit card when I was made aware of the fact the Garmin has no intention of supporting its products and consumers with mac based downloading capabilities.... With a unit taunting high-end, up-to-date features, I say, "Get with the Times, Garmin! " Mac owners worldwide will appreciate a company that cares about them!Digital camera Review: I'd be lost without it.......
Summary: 5 Stars
"Where on earth am I?" A question I often ask myself. Now I have the answer. This one is my third Garmin. My last one was a GPS III (I still have it) bought at the London Boat Show in 1998. I took it everywhere. Even covered in thick mud in the jungles of Samar in the Philippines it did an excellent job. When I dropped it once too often Garmin replaced it free of charge and with all data transferred over to the new unit. It is almost a diary of my travels. I love this unit, and I rate Garmin very highly as well. The new unit is a vast improvement on the III, and has so much information on freeways and off-ramp services that I wonder who spent the time to put it all in. Added to that is the excellent free software updates (2 since January) that this unit has become my constant travel companion by land as well as sea. Powering up is not at all bad. the longest wait I have had for a fix is just under 3 minutes. Normally this is more like 45 seconds. The Mapsource software is also very useful. I have yet to see how it will cope with European map data when I take it back across the pond, but at least I know that I can always answer my original question and know "where on earth I am........"Digital camera Review: Impressive Unit
Summary: 5 Stars
When I first turned this unit on after installing its batteries, I gave it absolutely no information about the current time or even where on earth it was (it had just arrived via 2nd day air from Reno, Nevada). Without any aiding, it took only about two minutes to acquire 4 satellites, determine the current UTC time, and correctly locate its position in northwest Atascadero, CA (which appears by name on its internal map). I must admit that I am impressed by this unit. It is currently sitting on the window sill in my office, happily tracking 8 satellites. Now that selective availability (SA) has been discontinued by executive order, the accuracy of the standard positioning service (SPS) should improve by about an order of magnitude, making this little gem even more valuable.Digital camera Review: Indispensable for answering, "are we there yet."
Summary: 5 Stars
A recent TV commercial shows a guy walking around the house with his new GPS from Amazon.com mumbling things like, "at this rate it will take me XX days to get to XYZ" after which his wife comments, "I should have bought him the tie." It's cute, my wife loves it and emphasizes, tongue in cheek, how much guys love gadgets, but these things really are useful!I own the Garmin GPSIII and the new eMap. I have found these GPS units to be extremely useful, competent and entertaining. I've used them for sailing, vacations, business trips, commuting and motorcycling. For motorcycling, I find using a GPS unit to be indispensable, especially when traveling in unfamiliar areas. Pulling over to the side of the road to look at a map requires taking off my gloves and helmet, which is time consuming and frustrating. With a GPS unit, I can preprogram a 1,000+ mile trip and never have to pull over to look at a map, never miss a turn, always know how far and how long it will be to my next rest / fuel stop, etc. It's also nice at the end of the day to precisely know how long you've been traveling (with the eMap, your moving, stopped and total time), your average and top speed, and miles covered. Should you have a problem requiring service, you can communicate your exact location. If you have children, you can answer that perennial question, "are we there yet" to the minute and tenth of a mile.
I was going to upgrade to the GPSIII Plus for its ability to import maps from my computer but learned Garmin had produced a new model, the eMap. Having had a GPSIII (i.e., GPSIII Plus without the maps) for years, I knew how well made, reliable and valuable the unit is but was intrigued by the eMap. The eMap is slightly lighter, definitely thinner and has a screen that is 20% larger than the GPSIII Plus. It is also less expensive. I also liked the fact that the eMap has memory cartridges in 8 or 16 meg sizes whereas I've read that the GPSIII Plus has only 1.5 megs of internal map storage (not upgradeable), considerably smaller. On the plus side for the GPSIII Plus it is significantly more water-resistant (an absolute necessity for water activities), your information can be displayed on a number of different "pages" or screens and it is much more user configurable.
Although I love my new eMap, I'm not getting rid of my GPSIII. As between the GPSIII Plus and the eMap, I would say this. For the vast majority of people using a GPS, especially those new to GPS, the eMap is THE handheld GPS to have. If things like VMG ("velocity made good") are important to you, if you want a unit that can be configured for a number of specialized applications, if you aren't bothered by the memory limitation of the GPSIII Plus, then I'd highly recommend that unit. You could hardly go wrong with either.