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Kas tiesa tas ne melas. Pasiziurejau va savo pazystamo ly2kw lenteles - tai ir isvis geda paliko. Siandie susiupdeitinau savo Oregona300. Kelis konteineriukus turiu dar is pernai. Reiks imtis zygiu.... Kvieciu ir kitus

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Good for you ! Glad you like your new gadget. I am curious - what GPS model you have used before, Marky ??? Maybe I'm to spoiled by my trusty GPSMAP60CSx. But I deeply believe that Colorado has long way to go to reach the convenience, flexibility, screen readability and battery life of 60CSx. Just removing the battery compartment lid - is a pain in the neck. And specially if would have to do it every 1.5 hours..... IMHO, that thing alone, in combination with a incredibly short battery life, will be a deal-breaker for many.

Never ever had I a Magellan. Give me one for 10% of its retail price, and you will hear my LOUD "thanks, NO!"

I got one with 2.3/2.6 FW in it. Last weekend I dropped in a fully charged 2300 mAh NiMh''s, and went to hide a cache. You know what!? It went completely DEAD in 55 minutes! All this with backlite set as "0", no beeps, occasionally switching between the windows and configs. This turned me crazy.... Assuming my NiMh's were not 100% OK, - I took them from my DSLR camera, and these are may be 5 month old...I decided to make some lab measurements. Instead of AA's , connected my Colorado-300 to lab grade DC power supply, with digital voltage and current meters. Made the measurements in all 3 modes, (Alkaline, Li-Ion, NiMH), reducing the voltage on the regulated lab power supply from 3.0V down to.... 2.1V ( this 2.1 was my hope !). Here is my readings: Alkaline @ 2.55 V - backlite goes off, warning pops-up, only one RED bar left on Colorado300's battery meter @ 2.29 V - GPS unit goes totally OFF NiMh @ 2.57 V - backlite goes off, warning pops -up, only one RED bar left on Colorado300's battery meter @ 2.31 V - GPS unit goes totally OFF LiIon @ 2.60 V - backlite goes off, warning pops -up, only one RED bar left on Colorado300's battery meter @ 2.32 V - GPS unit goes totally OFF This makes me think - does the "Alkaline-NiMh-LiIon" setting changes anything at all ??? The reading differences between these 3 cases are so small - it could easy be a variation of the voltage reduction rate (slope) (I was reducing the voltage at the rate of 0.01V per second, i.e 0.1V drop in ~10sec.. Done manually, and could be that rotation of the voltage control was not extremely smooth) In any case, this makes me wandering of one think - how much the NiMh's can be used at all ? If at 2.55V already the warmig pops up, and the backlite goes down? WTF ??? IF the operationall voltage range on COLORADO could be extended from 2.32V down to ~2.15V - it would add many many hours of work. IMHO, 1.16V is NOT the level, where NiMh cell could be called a completely exhausted As we all know, 1.2V is a "Nominal Cell Voltage", and it can we discharged down to 1.05-1.1V without any permanent damage. Was the Garmin's "FIX" in released 2.3/2.6 firmware only a simple mod, where "Alkaline-NiMh-LiIOn" setting was simply disabled?? And now it always use "NiMh level" , regardless of what you see on your Colorado's display? I can understand such "fix" could improved the "lifetime of Alkalines", as most likely - the "low voltage triger level" was even higher before, then is the present 2.55V Final note: I can't remember any other case in my life, when a new product has caused so much dissapointment (not only battery issue, but all that other things, what we read here on this forum dozens of times)

Agree w. SergZak My new NUVI-350 shows me 5-6 satellites indoors, in my radioshack, where I have tried maybe 8 different older GPS's , and never seen even one satellite. Tremendous improvement !

The picture is sure "photoshopped" . GARMIN has not officially announced those "x" models, which means - nobody could made a picture from a real unit. And GARMIN strongly keeps all info confidential until official announcement (just keep checking garmin.com) The last 5-7 years experience shows, that firs REAL units hit the market 1-3 weeks after official denouncement ( if very successful) on garmin.com , and sometimes only 2-3 month after announced on the web. Chances are - it may hit the market just before Christmas.( lets keep our thumbs...) The important questions are: Does TransFlash cards in GARMIN "x" models will store maps only? Or waypoints too? And tracklogs too? I'm tired of loosing some clients just because Magellan dealers keep screaming "UNLIMITED waypoints and tracks !" . Very curious if GARMIN has learned this lesson well..... Vic

The important questions are: Will TransFlash cards in GARMIN "x" models will store maps only? Or waypoints too? And tracklogs too? I'm tired of loosing some clients just because Magellan dealers keep screeming "UNLIMITED waypoints and tracks !" . Very curiuos if GARMIN has learned this lesson well..... Vic