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And then they will cost more than the average person will pay. Waterproof is no problem anymore, touchscreen, wireless data transmission, even the power supply. As for shock, just a sturdier housing, no big deal, the electronic of an Iphone is as sturdy as a regular GPS. On an Iphone the GPS is just an application and a GPS chip, cheaper than a dedicated device ! Just a matter of packing a computer with the appropriate sensors (GPS, magnetic flux, acceleratometer, pressure, CCD ...) wireless communication and proper applications. My daughter doesn't use her Garmin Nuvi anymore, her Iphone 3G+ does the job better (GoogleEarth !) and many other things. Only current drawback, batteries ! Of course on the trail, in the woods I stick to my 60CX but it will be the last of its kind and when worn out, I expect Iphone or the likes will be to my likings ! It's already close to it. Stand alone GPS only will just become a niche market. In fact they are already !

Which nuvi ? A TomTOm or the latest Iphone !

No, it's not. You are selling an antique at roughly the same price as a new high sensitivity 60CX currently on sale as they are phased out !

People should first learn what accuracy realy means and also learn to use their equipment before voicing their critics and eventually misleading others.

I you can get to the "guts" of an unregulated 4.5V flashlight, you might be able add a schottky diode, with a 0.3V drop, wired in series with the batteries. This would result in the standard 4.5V being supplied to the original flashlight circuitry. No point doing that. These flahslights use a resistor to drop the voltage from 4.5 to what the LEDs requires. Eventually you could increase this resistor but as long as you don't exceed the MAX rated LED current, no point. Avoid these flashligths as they don't use electronic regulation which is best for constant output while making efficient use of the battery energy regardless of its type. So avoid any LED lights that requires 3 cells !

Not a problem anymore with the new NT maps ! This kind of GPS are bought by people who normally are a bit above the average in term of computer litteracy and have a computer. Without a PC, you loose a lot. ANy geocachers without a PC ? Less inventory also means savings. Easier to bundled the maps on DVD or SD memory with the GPS than GPS with preloaded EPROMS. Can you update theses built in maps ? The bundle can be done anywhere, anytime up to the final seller. In fact they do it too !

It is just what I said !

This new 450 has a list price equal to the 300 !!! I fail to understand why Garmin sells them with preloaded maps !!! Its built in obsolescence even if Topo maps don't change often ! It add to the confusion a too many apparently different models ! Same for the 550 with a lame 3.2mega pixel camera. Quality is not the number of pixels but the optic and it's crap on such device. Would be better to have a communication standard to exchange GPS info with a real camera via Bluetooth or a real camera with a GPS chip. Too many models anyway. I keep my 60CX till it settles or will look for other mfgds !

It will never be fixed; it is obviously a hardware design issue. You can sell screwed up software then fix it later as improvement. Just update it but no such thing in hardware ! Software engineers can be and are lousy, not hardware !

Three years ago I choosed the 60CX because the 60CSX was already infamous for these compass problem. Anyway, you always have to carry a normal compass for backup. So far, no regret, rarely had to use the regular compass either, the GPS one fits the bill. ANd this not just for geocaching which is not its main use anyway. Funny thing, the 60CSX seems to be more common while common sense should have made it the least. But then why do we call common sense something that looks so uncommon ?

I am using Palmdesktop ver 6.2.2 under Win 7 pro 32bits and it works without problem. I have a Palm TX and use the Palm special USB interface.

In that case, you might take a look at your digitaldutch calculator. It doesn't seem to handle min and max elevations correctly in all cases without erroring out with those units the rocket scientists use. Hey, I was offering that as help to some who want to work with their barometric altimeters. Is there anything wrong with that? Are you capable of offering any help yourself? Or, is criticizing the help of others the extent of your capabilities? Don't you think that part of the inability of Americans to deal with these basic things is due to some kind of "mathematical illiteracy" which is one of the reason of the failure to adopt the metric standard ? On the other hand, the confusion of these imperial units lead to confusion in understanding the basics of physics for ex.. Soldiers lost in Vietnam because they couldn't read map, compute distance etc... And we can see that it is still the case on this forum ! When I was in the wood of Maine, I could use the map better than the locals, because 1cm = 240m on the 24k Topo map ! Besides, in this global economy, good luck to export products that are non standard ! See: http://redtape.msnbc.com/2009/12/when-i-pu...e-fraud-al.html

Who still uses inch of mercury ?

OK lets agree to disagree. I can find info where it states it does make a difference and you can find info it says it doesn't. You are right I am wrong along with the tons of users who have experienced total loss of signal in a heavy rainstorm. Dave Patton, Canadian Coordinator of the Degree Confluence Project had posted the best answer as of this morning… The GPS signals will not be affected by clouds, rain, fog, snow, etc., because of the combination of their passing through water vapour, and the signal wavelength meaning they "pass through" rain etc. On the other hand, water will block/attenuate GPS signals. For example, you can’t receive GPS signals underwater, although having a GPS receiver antenna very close to the water surface may allow some reception. Most cloth that would be covering a GPS receiver’s antenna will pass GPS signals(e.g. backpack, jacket, etc.), but cloth with a metallic component will block/attenuate the signals. Cloth that covers a GPS receiver’s antenna and gets wet (e.g. from rain) can also block/attenuate the GPS signals. In fact, you don’t even need the cloth – water on the case that covers the GPS receiver antenna can block/attenuate the GPS signals. That water could be drops, and/or a film of water. I’ve seen that happen myself, when using my etrex Venture in the rain – the signals were weak/blocked, but a quick drying-off of the GPS case over the antenna brought the reception back, which then degraded again as water accumulated on the case. Similarly, GPS signal reception is degraded in wet forest canopy conditions compared to when the forest canopy is dry. Not affected by rain, but is affected by water???? I always thought rain was water, what a fool I was??? Rain is not water. :>) The fact that vapor, water decreases the signal strength does not imply it affects the accuracy ! It's the speed change that can affect it !

Again - all you are going to prove is that one of the two GPSs you are comparing is out by a similar amount to the hiders GPS...... unless you are assuming that every cache you try to find has co-ords measured by a survey quality GPS??? This is so obvious, I am amazed that most fail to understand that ! The famous claim for "accuracy" is simply that the GPS happens to have the same "inaccuracy" as the placer's GPS !

Sorry but your figures contradict ecanderson analysis and therefore hint we are dealing with a boost regulator, the electronic working at a higher voltage (3V to 5V) that two AA NimH cells can give. This means that higher V cell = "less boost" to perform and better efficiency.

An other "mistery" of ver. 4.0 solved !

yes but they are suppose to go in the geocahing file too. On the other one I have you can see them in the waypoints and the geocaching file. There is no "file". Geocaching are identified by the icon you've assigned to them. If the icon matches what you've set up on the unit's geocaching mode page, then they're considered geocaches. The default in the unit is the closed/opened treasure chests for unfound/found caches, but you can set them to any icon that you can assign to a waypoint, including any of the 24 custom icons. Actually your are wrong about this in regards to the 60csx. When you press the find button it will bring up a menu screen and one of the buttons you can scroll to is "geocaches". So if your down loading gpx files individually straight from geocache.com it will send them straight to the geocache file in the 60csx. Prime suspect is right, reread his post !

Virtually all these devices have some form of voltage regulation to prevent high voltage damage. I'd be mostly concerned about the heat discharge due to the regulation and it's effect on the internal components. N Less loss means less heat !!! In this kind of equipment, the regulators have to step up the voltage and are pulse mode.

Looks promising. The higher voltage is not an issue as a standard alkaline is about the same. in fact it is better to have a higher voltage as it means less loss in the voltage converters. What is important are the W.h as it really represents the stored energy. Hope the number a charge cycles and battery life is at least as good as NiMH. LiIon are a pain for that matter as even unused they usually don't last more than a couple of years and loose their capacity used or not, plus they can be dangerous if imporperly charged and handled.

Using your own inches and feet, you could get, with some luck, the same kind of "accuracy" ! A decameter made out of a rubber band could also fit the bill. In fact a commercial grade GPS is just that, it can stretch about -3 to +3 m almost randomly, so yes by chance it can display a value close to the real one. Just by looking at all the posts related to GPS "accuracy" one can see that it is about one in ten !

Didn't work in 1938 you know ! Heard that in Norway you now have separate swimming pools for men and women ? What is the next step ? PS: Initially I didn't intent to answer but I can't accept that you just hinted the US was indirectly responsible for terrorism ! I know this rotten way of reasoning is rather common among short sighted, coward, leftist Europeans ! Now I stop feeding the troll !

If controls are inefficient, it is mostly due to this infamous "Political correctness" ! I can't develop because I too have to be PC on this forum. So, this is it folks !

True, but I have been to many country and US is one of the worst to get into. Sad to say but the US is the prime target and EU countries are often the starting point of these terrorists that often are EU "citizen" ! The terrorists organisation knows perfectly that they stand more chance to avoid controls by using these "citizen". Fed up by all these inefficient, because PC, controls !

Always funny these discussions about inch, feet etc... By the way, we are in the 21 first century !