You’ll get used to it. The biggest difference of course is you’re switching from a push button model to a touchscreen. Some find it easier to use a touchscreen and it’s certainly faster to enter the data, but longevity can sometimes be an issue with the touchscreen models. The 25 has the capability of receiving both the 26 U.S. satellites as well as the 24 Russian GLONASS satellites for a total of 50, but the 62s has a better antenna since it has that “thumb” bumpout, but they’ll be close in performance.
You’ll find that unlike the push button 62s, you’ll have to take your gloves off to push the touchscreen, which can be inconvenient in winter. But those who have touchscreens (like on a smartphone) usually wouldn’t have it any other way. It has a small but very sunlight-readable screen, which is nice.
We have had several touchscreen GPS units over the past six years, all from Garmin, and eventually had to replace each one when they partially or completely stopped working. Still liked them though. As far as push button models, our 62s lasted for about 7,400 caches when the power button finally wore off, but it still worked! We recently got a GPSMAP64s to replace the 62s. We also have an Oregon450 & 650, which are both touchscreen models. We like the eTrex series and they’re fairly fast and accurate, and a good value, but prefer the eTrex touch35 over the eTrex touch25 because you can send wirelessly back and forth cache and waypoint info to other Garmin units with the 35, but not with the 25. That’s a dealbreaker for us because we constantly use that feature when caching as a couple or with others.
So the eTrex25 gets a thumbs up from me if you don’t care about sharing data wirelessly to other units. I’d recommend deleting the preloaded 250,000 (yep, 250k) geocaches – they’d be outdated after the very first week. Enjoy your eTrex!
