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Got to use if for some hiking and a few caches today. I’ll sum it up like this; If you don’t have a Garmin V, you will probably love it. If you have a V, you will have mixed emotions because it has improvements that we V owners have been looking for, such as USB speed and more memory, but it definitely is not the improved V that we’ve been asking for. They got us over a barrel. To get that, you have to buy both a 60 and the latest version of the Street Pilot. Nuts!
We got a chance to use the Map60 on the trails today and can’t believe how bright the display is in daylight. I took us to the caches effortlessly. We are not regretting this investment.
One puzzling omission that I hope they add with a firmware update is the GOTO feature when you add a new waypoint such as parking coordinates. The V lets you add a waypoint, such as that for parking and once entered, gives you a GOTO option. As it is, the 60 requires you to search for that new waypoint. Not a problem if near, but if several miles away, you have to scroll through other waypoints. Also, it is missing the recalculate function of the V. For example, you autoroute to the vicinity of GCXYZ and then enter recalc for off road. With the 60, you have to refind the geocache waypoint to refigure off road.
On the other hand, the 60 does have one interesting feature when using autorouting. It is the Highway view which shows your road ahead with all the curves to the end on an artificial horizon with a signpost showing the next road. It would be nice for longer trip on limited access roads. The regular map and route screen becomes horribly tiny if you have more than two data fields added to the display. I’d like to see the option to switch between a screen with the data fields and then one without just by pressing a button.
The geocaching find-to-calendar needs a little work. It doesn’t allow for offset caches as well as it could. For battery life, I’ve had a fresh pair of 1200mah NmH in for 12 hours and it has been sitting on one bar for an hour. I had the backlight on full shortly after five pm so with a better set of batteries, that would be better than 24 hours of life for two batteries. Not bad.
Well, I found the weak spot of the unit. The tiny USB connection on the unit has broken free and that no longer works. I’m waiting for a return authorization for it to be be fixed or exchanged. In the mean time, I’m glad I didn’t sell my V!
[This message has been edited by sbukosky (edited 03-03-2004).]
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