Garmin eTrex Vista H Handheld GPS Navigator Review
September 27th, 2009
Garmin eTrex Vista H Handheld GPS Navigator Review from Reviewer. Nice unit, but poor documentation and worthless basemap, Being new to GPS, I was excited to see what all I could do with this thing and how to make it do it. Unfortunately, the instruction manual is very vague. Many of the menu features are not even listed and the functions are not explained. It’s basically, “to get to here, press this button”. How about some examples? If you already are familiar with GPS, I suppose this would be fine, but it has been countless hours of experimentation to figure out some of the funtions.
Also, the basemap that comes with this is very basic – just major roads. There are also limited maps that you can purchase for this, and in fact I don’t think the Garmin site accurately lists all that are available (I would think that the Vista H would support all the maps the Vista supports, but the site says no). Expect to pay $120 for a map disk. I’m thinking the 100K topo map would be the best since it shows detailed streets and items of interest in parks. It’s pretty lame as a topo map though from the demo on the Garmin site.
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I bought the GolfLogix GPS from Amazon because of the popular Garminname and the price. After my purchase, Amazon dropped the price by $4. I sent them an email and they refunded the difference. How many merchants will do that? Many of my golf partners have the SkyCaddie SG-2 and I think that the GolfLogix is obviously the superior product. It uses common AA batteries, although it consumes them quickly. That’s not a big problem. I use Energizer rechargeables, and keep an extra set in the bag ready to go. Unlike the SkyCaddie, if the battery goes dead in the middle of a round, all you need to do is pop in a new set and yourback in business by the next hole. All of the courses in my community are covered by GolfLogix, except executive links. On the 1stday of use, a passing rain shower had the SkyCaddie folks scrambling to cover their units. I had no worries with the GolfLogix as it is water resistant. During initial use, I checked the accuracy with every known marker on the course (200, 150 & 100 yards) and the GolfLogix was with 2 yards every time. Perhaps the most incredible part of the information is the distance to hazards. 1dogleg on my home course is protected by trees on the right. GolfLogix gave the distance to the trees. Once you set it for the 1sthole, you don’t have to touch it again. The screen is very clear and easy to read. I am far sighted and prefer to wear sun glasses instead of reading glasses on the golf course, but I have no problem reading this gps.
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