Handheld GPS Reviews - Customer reviews - Garmin eTrex Vista CX Color Handheld GPS

Manufacturer: Garmin

List Price: $374.99
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Average Customer Rating: -

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Name: Nicholas Shortridge
Location: Richlands, VA
Date: 2007-06-08
Customer Rating: -

Summary: I really love my Vista CX
Comment: I upgraded to the Vista CX from a Garmin Legend. This one has a lot of great features including color display, electronic compass, and usb adapter. I am a geocacher and it has geocaching cabalities built into the unit. For the price and the features I give this GPS 2 thumbs up

Name: Scallywag
Location: NJ, USA
Date: 2006-10-16
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Avoid Magellan at all costs.....buy Garmin
Comment: I foolishly bought a Magellan Explorist 500. Let's just say the best thing about the experience is that Amazon's return service is absolutely first rate. I was even stupid enough to replace my original malfunctioning Magellan with another, before returning that one too on the grounds that it was impossible to work with and didn't sync with my PC.

The Garmin on the other hand - I had learned more about what a GPS is supposed to do in one hour with this unit, compared to three weeks with the Magellan. Very user friendly, very intuitive....restored my faith in handheld GPS systems.

Name: Mr. M. Mantovani
Location: Bologna, Italy
Date: 2007-03-17
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Good GPSr, expensive maps
Comment: I bought this GPSr as I intended to use it on my mountain bike.
It's really good for the usage I needed.
For bikers, I recommend the optional Bicycle Mount Bracket.
Every day you can find some nice features you didn't know...
I think it's definitely worth its price.

Unfortunately in Italy there are no topographic maps available... but I knew it!
What I didn't know (and this MUST be clear to any purchaser) is that YOU HAVE TO BUY BlueChart maps (for the sea) and streetmaps if you need, and they are really expensive.
You can find maps on the network, but they need an unlock code that is bound to the GPSr serial number, so there is no way to use them.

For sure that's fine, but if you just need to try it at the sea one day you can't spend hundreds of dollars for the maps...

Name: S. R. Smith
Location: Indiana, United States
Date: 2007-07-06
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Good product
Comment: After using it for a couple of weeks now (it took me about 3 days to figure it all out), it seems to work fine. We bought it for hiking and when riding our bikes. There was only one time that it lost signal when outdoors and that was under some power lines in a state forest. It worked great outdoors for what we bought it for, but I wouldn't recommend it for using in a car or truck just for navigating. We have used it for that and it works ok, but the Garmin nuvi navigators work much better for that. We have the nuvi 360 for the truck and it's unbelievable, but that's not what this review is about. I would buy the Vista CX again out of all the other brands out there. As far as I know so far, it works fine for all your outdoor adventures even though it's a bit costly in my opinion. You might as well plan on buying a map program like Garmin's City Navigator though if you want any detail in where your going. I guess if your only going to use it on trails, and want to be able to backtrack, it wouldn't matter.

Name: T. BROOKS
Location: Baton Rouge, LA USA
Date: 2007-09-28
Customer Rating: -

Summary: VISTA CX
Comment: Vista CX is a very good gps with many nice features. I rate it with 4 stars because it does not keep a good signal in deep woods. Other than that it is perfect. I sent it back for the Vista HCX.

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