Garmin Colorado 400t Handheld GPS Unit with US Topographic Preloaded Maps
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Innovative Rock ¿n Roller input wheelWireless sharing of user tracks, waypoints, routes and geocaches between unitsSD card slot for optional mapping and user data storageUser configurable profiles: automotive, marine, recreation, fitness, geocache
Product Description
This rugged, advanced handheld is packed with detailed topographic maps for all your hiking adventures not to mention 3-D map view, a high-sensitivity receiver, barometric altimeter, electronic compass, SD card slot, picture viewer and color display. Exchange tracks, waypoints, routes and geocaches wirelessly between similar units. Slim, lightweight and waterproof, Colorado is the perfect companion for all your outdoor pursuits.
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Share Wirelessly
With Colorado 300 you can share your waypoints, tracks, routes and geocaches wirelessly with other Colorado users. Now you can send your favorite hike to your buddy to enjoy or the location of a cache to find. Sharing data is easy. Just select "send" to transfer your information to other Colorado units.
Keep Your Fix
With its high-sensitivity, WAAS-enabled GPS receiver, Colorado 300 locates your position quickly and precisely and maintains its GPS location even in heavy cover and deep canyons. The advantage is clear — whether you're in deep woods or just near tall buildings and trees, you can count on Colorado to help you find your way when you need it the most.
| Explore More |  |  | Colorado's preloaded U.S. topographic maps, 3-D map view and a built-in worldwide basemap with shaded relief give you all the tools for serious climbing or hiking. Map detail includes national, state and local parks and forests, along with terrain contours, elevation information, trails, rivers, lakes and points of interest.
Just in case you're wondering how steep that hill really is, Colorado's 3-D map view helps you visualize your surroundings — giving you a better perspective of the elevation. |
Expand Your Horizons
|  |  |  | The Colorado also accepts SD cards, so you can use Garmin preprogrammed SD cards to add maps that serve any and all of your outdoor activities on land or water. Just take your pick from a wide selection, including street maps, topographic maps, coastal charts or inland lake data. The card slot is located inside the waterproof battery compartment, so you don't have to worry about getting it wet. |
| Rock on. Find Fun |  |  | Colorado's innovative Rock `n Roller input wheel for easy one-handed operation and intuitive screen interface make it as easy to navigate the device as the outdoors.
Customize Colorado's interface based on your favorite activity.
Even show off photos of your excursions with its picture viewer. |
Experience Paperless Geocaching
|  | Colorado supports Geocaching.com GPX files for downloading geocaches and detail straight to your unit. You'll have at-a-glance cache descriptions and details to aid in your search. |
| Get Your Bearings |  |  | Colorado has a built-in electronic compass that provides bearing information even while you're standing still.
Its barometric altimeter tracks changes in pressure to pinpoint your precise altitude. View elevation data before you begin your ascent or descent. You can even use the altimeter to plot barometric pressure over time, which can help you keep an eye on changing weather conditions. | Interactive Demo
Spotlight Customer Reviews:
Summary:
Getting lost...no more
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Comment:
Finally a device that really works in the deep woods. If you like to go mountain biking, hiking or do any type of outdoor exploration, in areas that you're not familiar with, this Garmin unit is a must-have. There's nothing worse than going out in the woods for a nice hike, and then discovering you have no clue where you are. The Garmin 400t will let you know where you are and better yet how to get back to where you started from.
My major gripe with this unit (which is why the 4-star rating instead of 5-stars) is that after buying it and also buying the DVD for City Navigation I was hoping to use this unit for road biking as well. I assumed that the unit was compatible with Garmins Training Center Software because the unit is compatible with both Garmins heart rate monitor and cadence device. Why would Garmin make the 400t compatible with their heart rate monitor and cadence device and not make the unit compatible with their Training Center Software so that rides can be uploaded to the Web. Knowing that the unit was compatible with Garmins heart rate monitor and cadence device it was only logically to think that Garman would have made the unit compatible with the Garmin Training Center Software so that rides could be loaded into the training center software. Unfortunately, Garman decided not to make this unit compatible with their Training Center Software. I think this is a big drawback for anyone that wants to use it for road biking.
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Summary:
Eclipse chasing - having trouble
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Comment:
I purchased the Colorado 400t to chase eclipses. I need to get to very specific places on earth and cannot be off target.
My primary trouble with this: I ran into problems loading in custom POI's. I have had the unit for a week now and I am trying to prepare it for my upcoming trip to Mongolia. I want to load in the eclipse track coordinates which I have saved in a .csv file. I used the Garmin software available on the Garmin site for loading in custom POI's. The first time I used it it worked great - for the first 30 coordinates or so. I think it ran out of space. I then used the same Garmin software to "delete all custom POI's", created a new .csv file with only the 14 coordinates that I needed, and tried to upload again. This is where the problem came in - although it tells me that the load was successful. when I go to the custom POI area on the unit there are "no matches found". I think something may have messed up the unit when I used their delete option. I am going to call Garmin directly later today because I have found no other reference to this problem online.
my second problem with this - the international maps are awful if you plan on going someplace unusual. I do not expect to get street names but something more than a blank peach colored field would be nice.
My third problem - no satelites can be found in my city! This is very strange as I am standing under an open sky. This makes me a little apprehensive - what if this happens to me in western mongolia?
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Summary:
Greatest GPS Ever Made
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Comment:
I have had a variety of GPS products over the years - hiking, mountain climbing and recently geocaching. The 400t is the best by far. I would like to try the new Garmin Oregon, which had not been announced when I got the Colorado, but it would have a way to go to beat this one. I use mine for geocaching and street directions (I got the streets card -$100), and it is perfect. I have an order for the Western parks, which I am looking forward to. Viewer is crystal clear, unit is easy to use and has unsurpassed paper-free Geocaching features.
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Summary:
not ready for prime or any other time
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Comment:
I worked with this product extensively for two weeks on a trip to the Southwest, and it's just too buggy to be useful. Sometimes geocache logs show up; sometimes they don't. About 20% of the time, it won't even navigate to a given geocache; you have to enter the coordinates manually using the little scroll wheel. (Hardly a painless process.)
The idea of paperless geocaching is great, but the 400t just doesn't implement it in an usable way. I've already mentioned the straight out bugs in the product; the UI design is awful as well. I got a copy of the Garmin's street database to use the 400t for finding my way around; good luck! If you're navigating to a location and do pretty much anything (check out a local geocache, for example), you have to start navigating all over again -- including going through the not inconsiderable pain of entering your desired destination without a keyboard.
Garmin's documentation is pretty much nonexistent (as others have indicated) [...]
All told, this product has brought far more frustration than joy into my life. Geocaching is supposed to be fun!
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Summary:
Getting better
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Comment:
As delivered I wasn't real happy with it. It would freeze when I would get close to a cache. I installed the new Beta 2.54 software and now it seems better. I love the features and fuctionality of the unit and I'm sure that Garmin will get the software figured out soon. If I was writing this review solely on the out of the box unit I would give it one star, with the upgrade four and after another update or two a 5 or 6.
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