Garmin eTrex Legend

Pros: good resolution, mapping, user defined displays, PC inteactive

Cons: no waypoint alerts

The Bottom Line: Excellent little unit with good clear screen and packed with features.

Review: I've bought my Legend to use as a navigational tool for boating, and it served me well during the last year. I have use it as a stand alone unit, and also as a receiver hooked up to a laptop. This particular setup is my favorite while in an...

Pros: It has more features than I can use

Cons: The maps get a little cluttered in urban areas

The Bottom Line: IF YOU WANT A LIGHTWEIGHT ACCURATE GPS THAT CAN DOWNLOAD MAPS AT AN AFFORDABLE PRICE GET IT

Review: Until I got this unit I had owned a Magellan. It was a second generation generic GPS.
At the time it was a pretty advanced unit (1996). It was finally time to upgrade and the
options of the newer GPS units took a bit of education.
I...

Pros: Small, light, feature rich

Cons: Small display, joystick control can be twitchy, slow to acquire, no external antenna option

The Bottom Line: Small, light, great for the hiker or motorcyclist where size and weight are limiting factors. If automotive use required, there are better choices.

Review: I bought this as my first GPS unit. My father owns a StreetPilot, which is MUCH larger, but has an easier (in my mind) user interface and larger display.

The Legend is ultra-small, and because of that it's missing some of the more common...

Pros: Compact size, great features, included data cable.

Cons: Seems to loose signal easily, no alerts, not much memory

The Bottom Line: All the basic features and a data cable, inexpensive, but keeps up with the big boys.

Review: I was looking for a handheld GPSr primarily for geocaching and decided on the eTrex Legend mainly because it was packaged with a data cable.

What you get:
A serial data cable: a must if you're going to geocache. You'll need to...

Pros: Amazing array of features. Small, light, and durable. Superb for road trips and flying.

Cons: Only Garmin brand software can be used to load maps.

The Bottom Line: Outstanding device! If it had expandable memory, it would be the only GPS unit you'd ever need.

Review: I recently upgraded from a plain-vanilla Etrex because I wanted something that had mapping features. What an amazing device!

This unit is incredibly useful whether you use it for hiking, driving or flying. I've used it for all three...

Pros: Small, good resolution, WAAS capable

Cons: None that I've noticed as of this writing

The Bottom Line: Easy-to-use, highly recommended. It's getting four stars simply because it's the only GPS unit I've used. I doubt for the money there are many more better than this.

Review: With much trepidation, I finally jumped into the GPS realm with this unit. I had many fears of hard-to-follow instructions and disappointing results. To my pleasant surprise, Garmin came through with flying colors with the eTrex Legend.

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Pros: Neat and useful features!

Cons: Can be a little costly.

The Bottom Line: Give it a try. Garmin is a leading manufacturer in GPS products, and this gives you a good amount of bang for your buck!

Review: Okay, okay, so knowing exactly where you are can be useful, but you don't need a GPS (most of the time) to get your general location.

If you do much traveling at all, you may find this to be a very useful tool. This unit contains, among...

Pros: Rugged, dependable, accurate, long lasting

Cons: Does not work well with rechargeable batteries, default maps are not that detailed.

Review: I use the Legend primarily for geocaching but also for the occasional answer to the 'where am I' question that comes up so often on road trips.

The unit is very rugged having survived many falls onto wet, dry, smooth and rocky surfaces...

Pros: Loaded with great features. Easy to use.

Cons: Sometimes slow to acquire signal.

The Bottom Line: Fantastic handheld GPS. Loaded with features and very easy to use.

Review: The Garmin eTrex legend is everything that they advertised - and more. While it has more built-in features than most people will normally need, it is incredibly easy to learn to use and all the controls are just where you'd want them.
I have...

Pros: Because of size, it was fairly cheap to mail back to garmin twice.

Cons: Unbelievably slow customer support. Doesn't work with mapsource cd.

The Bottom Line: Avoid buying any Garmin product. The customer support is slow slow slow.

Review: 3 months to downloaded some of the charts I need, and I had to mail it to Garmin twice to get even that much.
I was told when I bought this unit that I could borrow a mapsource cd and easily download all the local charts. Well, it turns out...