Shopping CartGarmin GPSMAP 76Cx Handheld GPS
date : November 25th, 2011Handheld GPS
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Features For Garmin GPSMAP 76Cx Handheld GPS
- High-sensitivity GPS receiver
- Color-handheld mapping ideal for both marine and outdoor use
- Bright, sunlight-readable color TFT display
- 128 MB MicroSD card for storage of optional map detail
- Fast USB connectivity makes loading charts and maps quick and easy
Description For Garmin GPSMAP 76Cx Handheld GPS
Amazon.com Product Description Aimed squarely at boaters and marine users, the Garmin GPSMap 76Cx is packed with features that seasoned mariners crave. The 7.6-ounce 76Cx now features an insanely accurate, high-sensitivity GPS receiver by SiRF that tracks your position even in tree cover and canyons. Plus, you get a bright, sunlight-readable color TFT display and an included a 128 MB microSD card for storage of optional map detail. Simply put, this powerful unit is ready to take you anywhere on the water. Landlubbers will find much to like about this unit, too, as it packs great GPS mapping capabilities into a compact device.
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The GPSMap 76Cx features the powerful SiRF GPS navigation chip for supreme accuracy in all conditions. You can use the 76Cx’s memory card slot with preprogrammed microSD cards from Garmin (sold separately) that provide topographic maps, city streets, and nautical cha
List Price: $ 535.99
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So far I like it, really 4.5 stars.,
Having used a huge number of GPS units over many years, I must say that the 76CX is very good.
Pro’s
Removable memory (now up to 1GB)
Can be powered from 2 AA cells for a long time.
Nice Color Screen, no back light needed daytime
Water resistant
No easy to break off parts
Can be powered from USB connection!
Memory Cards(Micro SD) can be written to outside of unit
Does a good job routing for automobile use
Has marine and geocaching functions as well as hiking stuff like track logs etc.
fair pricing
Lots of optionally available maps
Garmin support is good including firmware updates that add functionality.
Cons:
Screen could be larger
Requires purchase of maps for street level(but this keeps price down, for people who aren’t driving with it)
Even with car kit unit doesn’t talk at all(“turn right next” or more recent auto units that pronounce street names)like the NUVI units do.
That said this and the 60 series are the only GPS units that you can drive with as well as use for hiking/boating/geocaching that work really well. The Magellan units that support both Meridian and Explorist are not nearlly as nice from a hardware, software and firmware point of view.
I will keep this unit until Garmin comes out with one that talks and pronounces street names as well as all the other functions that the 76 has. Would have also cosidered the 60CX but the price of the 76CX was better with the rebate offered this month.
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|don’t listen to the rookies,
the majority of the negative reviews are form people that want a GPS for their car, (rookies). I use mine exclusively for fishing and hunting, and its one of the best I’ve seen. I bought the topo map chip for the mid-west, and was blown away. it had all of the lakes I didn’t expect, as well as the ones I did, with contour lines far better (3 ft in some cases) than any DNR map I’ve ever seen. the topo map chip was [...] bucks, but was well worth the price. The map chip included all boat landings, nav. hazzards, POI’s, major and forest roads, and lake contours as accurate as my new depth finder. If your lonely and want a GPS that talks, go get a tom tom, but if you want a serious GPS for a serious outdoors man, you won’t be disappointed.
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|very nice…,
…but there are two things that annoy me:
The color display is significantly smaller than the one on the older monochrome gpsmap 76.
The screws on the back of the unit quickly get rusty when exposed to saltwater.
If you don’t need a device that floats, I’d recommend buying its prettier sister, the 60csx for the following reasons: it is smaller (but its display is the same size), it looks nicer and it has the keys in the right place (below the display).
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