Handheld GPS Reviews - Customer reviews - Garmin Etrex Venture HC GPS Receiver

Manufacturer: Garmin

List Price: $199.99
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Name: Jennifer Urbanek
Location: Riverview, MI
Date: 2008-04-25
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Wonderful & easy to use
Comment: This product is wonderful and very easy to use. We use rechargable batteries and they last quite a long while. The GPS is easy to use, the toggle button is very user friendly and the menus are simple to flip through. Batteries are accessible and the lightweight unit is highly accurate. Our experience is within 1 ft. Recommend a buy on this one.

Name: L. Simon
Location:
Date: 2008-05-01
Customer Rating: -

Summary: great tool
Comment: We bought this only for Geocaching and so far it has been wonderful. As always received it sooner than expected. Thanks Amazon!

Name: Raymond L. Parker
Location: Kansas City
Date: 2008-05-29
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Great GPS Value
Comment: I've been involved in the GPS market for about ten years. I've owned numerous GPS products during that time and the Venture HC has got to be one of the best values. Satellite aquisition time is very fast and the display is bright and clear even in strong sunlight. With full color display and 28 Mb of on-board storage, it is a much greater value than the Legend. Load it with any Metroguide or Mapsource product and you have a perfect companion for the road, field, hunting, or fishing trip. Battery life is good enough for most applications. Put in your pocket or carry it on the furnished neck lanyard and go have fun. Take the family along. They will have fun also.

Name: C. Morong
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: 2008-06-03
Customer Rating: -

Summary: I love this little gizmo
Comment: This is my first GPS and it is a real joy to use. It takes a little while to get use to what the buttons do and the different functions it has, but once you get the hang of it, it's simple to use. I bought it because I was going hiking in mountainous terrain and I didn't get lost! Just a word of warning, to get the fancy road and topographical maps you need to fork out another ~$100. But if you are technically oriented (or have access to a 5th grader) it's relatively easy to convert and import data from the USGS to make topo maps or crude road maps. Garmin has better road maps, but you can make decent ones for free. I wouldn't recommend using it while driving since it can't give you step by step directions, but is good for the passenger to keep track of you. The 24 MB of memory is plenty at least for me. It's a snap to transfer your hike to your computer at the end of the day and if you save it as a *.gpx file, you can view your journey in Google Earth. Correlate the time with the camera pictures and you know exactly where you took a picture. Too cool. The battery life is good as long as you turn it off when you are done for the day. The only complaint is that the altitude seems to have more error than the long/lat, but is generally good to within 100 ft, but if you want more accuracy a better GPS with altimeter would solve that problem.

Name: T. Wooten
Location: Moving to TN
Date: 2008-08-15
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Nice unit with a color screen for under $120
Comment: Picked this up because we were interested in geocaching. The geocaching mode makes it easy to go from one find to another, and Garmin's website makes it a snap to load new caches to your unit. The color screen looks great and it appears to be very accurate since we've been able to locate most of the caches we've searched for. This unit does not do turn by turn road directions and doesn't have removable memory so if those are features you want, choose another unit. The internal memory lets you load a fair amount of map data although I have been able to fill it up. The base map that comes loaded in the unit is just that...basic. If you want streets other than major higways, topographical or waterway maps you'll have to buy those separate. For the cost of the additional maps they should give the units away...lol. Battery life is decent, maybe 12-14 hours on a pair of AA's and thats with using the backlight at 100% most of the time.

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