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Thanks, this is good advise!

I wondered how that worked? I will try that. Thanks!

Well this was my whole question. What am I missing? I don't know the difference between all the GPS's so all I can compare is this little one I picked up. I didn't want to go out and pick up a high end devise only to find out that doesn't do much more then my little one. But if people highly recommend one then maybe I would. Regardless of the devise though it sounds like I would always have to preload the caches so that leaves out spontaneous geocaching. I've read that there are ones that have preloaded caches but can you update this for new finds? I now totally get the advantages of a gps in general when it comes to battery, hiding and reception thanks to all these replies. But I'm not sold on spending a lot of money on another devise if it doesn't offer much more then I already have. And I will still use my phone app in most cases.

I'm very new to geocaching with 42 finds and 9 hides. I have the geocaching app on my phone and I LOVE it. It's so user friendly and the graphics are clear and simple. However I found that some of my hides were not showing up accurate as I was also using my phone to mark my coordinated with google map. So I went out and picked up a little Garmin etrex 10. WELL... I was very disappointed in this little rig. So hard to set up, difficult to figure out and crappy graphics. I thought "why the heck do people even use gps when the phone app is so great". Am I missing something here? When I watch the youtube videos of people hiding or finding caches they all seem to have GPSs, why? What am I missing? Why would I use a GPS over the app (except to mark my coordinates when hiding).