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As far as I know, the 650's have yet to be released, everyone is still waiting.

Lucky, my nearest REI is 3-1/2 hours away. I guess I'll continue waiting on Amazon to get in the 650's. The wait sucks and I'm growing tired of using my iPhone 4.

I hope so too. I have a geocache event coming up soon that I'd really like to have my 650 on pre-order in hand instead of an iPhone.

I know right! I'm still waiting patiently for the 650. I'm sure it will most definitely be worth it.

ok, expecting full review tonight Same here. Looks like you got some work to do. I rarely trust a lot of 3rd party sites and their bias reviews.

I hope they get the 650/t figured out soon, I'm really wanting the one with a more rugged 8mp camera. Makes one wonder what the defect was??

Just joined the site today? Not sure how I missed that in the last post. Welcome aboard!

I hope Amazon gets them in that same day. I would be a happy person.

Yup, and still 3-5 on the 650. Id rather have had mine yesterday

Glad to finally see a manual. I had checked previously for a manual and only received an error that none existed. Also I'm a bit of a newbie to some of this and had to look up GeoWoodStock XI, looks like a great time.

I'll settle for April 19th. May is pushing it and June 7th is my birthday and Pioneer Palooza in Marietta, so we can't be having any of that. I too am getting pretty antsy.

Once I get my new GPSr in I'll have to throw together a bag. As of right now my girlfriend and I operate from the back of our SUV taking with us GPS, pen, and a few items to leave behind. Sometimes we make two trips to repair a cache and waterproof the logs a bit with new plastic baggies. All these pictures look great and I'll do one when I get my new unit in and put one together. I want to start hiking longer day trips and it's time I do this.

I've emailed Garmin, but have yet to hear back from them. I hope someone in Olathe, Kansas, is learning something here about product announcements and roll-out dates. Steve Jobs, love him or hate hime, the iPhones shipped when they said they would. I have already received an email from Amazon. The reply goes something like this: I understand your concern on ship date for Oregon 650, etc etc.... Rest assured we are working with suppliers to have the unit shipped at the earliest possible date. To help you, I've upgraded the shipping date to one day shipping free of charge ( I had previously selected the free super saving shipping). "I can confirm that we still expect to ship your order in time to be delivered to you by Thursday, June 13, 2013. Also states that the order could be shipped anywhere between now and the aforementioned date of June 13th. I hope that's the latest date to be expected.

Yesterday through Amazon I did the pre-order for the Oregon 650. I hope the device will ship soon as my first ever geocaching event I will get to attend falls on my birthday and I really want to take along this new unit. I've been using my iPhone 4 and it's time to step into a GPSr that I feel more comfortable with in the woods and much longer battery life to boot. I've emailed Amazon and Garmin both to see if there are any updates to the release date. *fingers crossed*

Thank you for all the replies. I have taken information from each one of you. The additonal waypoints within the geocaching app will be of great help. I can't believe I have overlooked this and not looked at every option *face palm* Given comments here and from research I've done, the GPSMAP 62 series looks like it would be a good choice and worth the purchase for the long haul. As far as the way points within the app...I'm still shaking my head.

We just got started Geocaching only several months ago. Since we began, we have been using an iPhone4 with the Geocaching app to locate GZ to the best of our abilities. We are now looking at getting a dedicated GPSr. Trying to save some money, would it be wise to get a cheaper one that’s accurate without the way points/mapping and paperless caching, given I can accomplish that from the iPhone4? What would be the ups/downs of doing it this way? Or should I just get a nice dedicated GPSr that can handle everything? I’m tired of the iPhone4 losing reception easily, being off mark by a good distance, and not having the ability to enter coords for say a leg of a puzzle cache to the next waypoint.