WHICH GARMIN GPS TO BUY?

Garmin produces the widest and most popular range of recreational GPS equipment in the world. Everything from basic wrist-worn models to sophisticated dash-mounted routing GPS’s.

Are you a jogger, casual runner or serious athlete? Then the highly successful wrist-worn Garmin Forerunner series could be just right. Light, versatile and with some having a heart-rate monitor, yet with all the power of hand-held units, this GPS can become your virtual training partner.

For sailing, boating, canoeing and hiking enthusiasts, the Garmin Foretrex series could be a safe guide on your adventures. Light, unobtrusive, wrist-worn and flexible with PC connectivity.

For the biker, Garmin have introduced the Edge series. From competitive road racing to mountain biking, the cyclist-friendly, lightweight Edge will help you achieve your personal best.

We have an impressive range of simple, no maps handheld GPS's. Very light and affordable is the Geko series. Still light and connects to a computer is the eTrex Yellow, and ideal for boating is the 72 Marine which floats on water!

Need to display maps on the GPS (for off-road use only)? Then the entry level eTrex Legend and eTrex Vista will do the job handsomely. We also have the colour screen units for greater clarity. The eTrex Legend Cx, GPSMAP 76Cx and the GPSMAP 60Cx will display the maps on brilliant TFT colour displays.

Some GPS’s, like the Geko 301, eTrex Summit and Vista, GPSMAP 76S and GPSMAP 60CSx have built-in barometric altimeters for increased vertical measurement accuracy. Useful to mountaineers, pipe-layers and farmers.

Anyone that wants to measure the area enclosed by waypoints would do well with the eTrex Legend or eTrex Vista.

The Quest and GPSMAP 276 C are multi-purpose units designed for both in-vehicle and outdoor use. They can route you to your destination, but also have tracking ability.

The StreetPilot C310 offers on-road ease-of-use with all the power and accuracy that a GPS can offer. Enter your destination as a street address, waypoint or one of the built-in points-of-interest (restaurants, shopping centres, police station……) and it will guide you by the shortest route there, giving explicit instructions where to turn.

The M4 is for the dedicated professional. This units is a PDA (electronic diary), so all you need to do is point to your contact in the address book and the integrated gps will do the rest.

The Garmin nuvi series is designed for the traveller or tourist. It has all the routing functionality of the StreetPilot series added to the Travel Kit which includes: a Language Guide, Travel Guide, MP3 player, audio book player, JPEG picture viewer, world travel clock with time zones, currency converter, measurement converter, and calculator. The nuvi 310 and nuvi 360 also have bluetooth connectivity, which means that you can use them as a hands-free car-kit with your cell-phone

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