Garmin Geko 301 Handheld GPS Review
October 5th, 2009
Garmin Geko 301 Handheld GPS Review from Eric Jain. Good for its size, Amazingly compact, no larger than a small cell phone. Easy to operate, even though there are only five buttons. Can be configured to use different units and coordinate systems. The battery life is okay but can be as short as four hours, depending on various factors (which I wish were documented somewhere). The built-in compass and altimeter are neat, but probably not worth the additional cost over the Geko 201, especially if you have a separate compass anyway. The screen resolution is okay, but in the view that shows tracks and waypoints the labels sometimes start overlapping and get unreadable when you zoom out. Getting a signal can require anywhere from less than a minute to more than ten minutes, depending on how much time (or distance?) has passed since the device was turned off or lost the signal. Getting a signal in urban areas, in forrests or even steep mountain sides turned out to be difficult or impossible; don’t know how much of an issue this is for comparable devices. Finally, the USB cable which must be purchased separately is outrageously expensive. You’d expect this kind of thing to be included, but no luck.
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