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 On: 2007-11-30
I will keep this as short as possible. The only drawback is the small screen, but thats what you sacrifice for extreme portability and honestly, it doesnt bother me that much.
Im in Iraq and most civilian GPS systems and even some of our own cant get a signal inside our armored trucks w/o an external antenna, but this one can even without the high-sensitivity feature turned on. Ive taken it out on four patrols for a total running time of about 36hrs and the batteries only read half-drained. Granted theyre lithium batteries and I use the backlight VERY sparingly, but still, very impressed.
Its everything I would want in a GPS, I had the RINO and while that was nice, this is so much better since I RARELY used the radio feature. Its worth the money, shop around, I found mine for just over $200 new.
If you dont already know, the loaded maps are sparse, so dont expect a lot of detail w/o shelling out some cash for new maps, but thats the case with any GPS.
Bottom line, great product, Garmin impresses me again. If its good enough for me in Iraq, I dont see where this bad-boy would fail.
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