Thread: What are your Favourite or Most Accurate Garmin Devices?

Hi all have been reading the posts and are interesting, so far the Garmin 30 should be sufficient to replace my old Etrex but only 1 of the 2 is slowly dying of screen line pixel disappearance even worse when the batteries are low, but I have a brand new backup that has only been used a few times, so we will see how long I go. Note : I am not a person that has to have the latest or the greatest Techno Gadget on this planet, I have been an Electronic Technician for 43yrs now and have seen technology come and go and this stuff now is not new to me, am just not going out to have the latest and greatest if you know what I mean. Some times the OLD saying KISS "Keep It Simple Stupid" will save dollars and still get you to where you want to go. Just remember if "YOUR OUT THERE" like I am and you rely on your GPS phone make sure it works when there is NO service. ^_^

Originally Posted by IGNATRON

.................. Just remember if "YOUR OUT THERE" like I am and you rely on your GPS phone make sure it works when there is NO service. ^_^

Here's an idea for a handy standby. If you have an old working but unused Symbian S60 phone lying around, load [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] on to it. It uses onboard *.img files and works without a mobile signal or even without a sim card inserted. If you have a later model Nokia S60 phone that's entitled to free Ovi Navigation maybe you can use also that offline/sim-less, but i haven't checked that. Obviously the phone needs to either have a GPS receiver onboard or the capability to link to an external GPS receiver. Slower for TTFF if the GPS receiver is weaker than a dedicated Garmin device, 'coz without a phone signal there's no A-GPS from a base station/cell tower to assist with the fix.

It will get you out of trouble if your Garmin dies inconveniently or your (not so) Smart Phone can't get a signal to use Google Maps on line.