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| Garmin eTrex Legend CX Color Mapping Handheld GPS | 
 enlarge | Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $321.49
Buy New: $119.00
You Save: $202.49 (63%)
New (12) Used (1)
Avg. Customer Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 2428
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Tracks: 20
Batteries: 2
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 176 x 220
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 2.2 x 4.2 x 1.2
nv:Type: Handheld
Acquisition Time Cold: 45 Seconds
Acquisition Time Warm: 15 Seconds
Update Rate: 1/second, continuous
GPS Accuracy Velocity: 0.05 meter/sec RMS
Waypoints: 500
Display: LCD
Battery Type: 2 AA batteries
Battery Life: 32 Hours
Antenna: Built-in patch
Special Features: Bluechart Compatible
MPN: 010-00440-00
Model: 010-00440-00
UPC: 753759049140
EAN: 0753759049140
ASIN: B000CSSHG4
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 owners manual initilly hard to understand May 31, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
manual assumes you know how to use a GPS...after a little help from our daughter who is a GPS expert we began to figure it out. Also discovered it needed additional software to get it to do what we wanted it to. Software cost over $100 and had to come from Garmin. (City Navigator North America) We now use it almost every time we leave the house, especially when we travel long distances-if you make a wrong turn it will re-route you or route you back to where you made the wrong turn.
 Best Value Handheld GPS May 24, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I think this is the best value for a handheld GPS, it is true that Vista CX has an additional barometric altimeter and electronic compass (that allows you determinate North when you are not moving), also is true that Nuvi's have greater screen, but Vista CX consumes more batt and costs $50 more, and Nuvi's are bigger (although if you want a GPS for using in your car, I recommend any Nuvi or StreetPilot).
Almost all was said in previus reviews: Legend CX had very good screen definition, fit in my had, has memory card slot, battery last a lot, make routes really quick and accurate, had several ways for viewing routing information and you can connect it to PC's.
About maps: Legend CX (and Vista CX) comes with a basic built-in world map, "basic" means map shows all cities in the world, coastlines and greater highways, no more than that.
Probably (almost sure) you'll want to have a detailed map of your home location or of the location you go to travel on next vacations. Well, first of all you have to buy a memory card with more capacity (I recommend at least one of 524Mb), consider that detailed data of one State (USA) uses about 50Mb (+/- 10Mb). Then, you have to buy software: Metroguide or City Navigator both managed by Garmin's software Mapsource, what is the difference?, well Metroguide costs about half than City Navigator; you can download data from Metroguide to several Garmin GPS, City Navigator comes lock, so you can use it only in ONE GPS; but with City Navigator, GPS can make a route to the destiny, that means GPS calculates fastest route, including directions of where to turn and how. Nevertheless, on Internet are patches like "Metrowizzz", those kind of software permit that Legend makes routes similar to City Navigator. Finally, I have to say that are detaled maps for almost any country, you could visit Garmin's website to see where to buy maps for other locations different than USA, Canada or Europe.
handy and quite powerful May 14, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I use my Etrex Legend CX predominantly for my fieldwork as a consulting biologist - for finding sample points, mapping stands and habitats, doing surveys etc. I was impressed with this little unit. Even in the forest, I usually get accuracy of 15 ft or less, which is pretty amazing. My decision to buy was based on the price and the ability to add memory and download data directly from the card. I also wanted the ability to upload custom maps (from my GIS) into the unit, which works great. Overall, a capable little machine. It is pretty easy to use once you remember where everything is located in the menus.
 "It's the FRENCH manual, stupid." April 24, 2007
8 out of 27 found this review helpful
The Garmin Legend Cx arrived quickly, and was well packed. Boy was I disappointed to find out that this unit comes with a manual written in FRENCH. Writting on the box and the outside of the manual are in English, but the inside of the manual is written completely in FRENCH. A call to Garmin got me NO HELP, they told me I can go to their website to download and print out the 100 page manual. Do you think that will go in my car's glove box? So far this is not a good example of 1) Quality Control and 2) Customer support.
I received a nice email from Amazon, but they do not carry replacement manuals. They SHOULD however let you know BEFORE you order, that you will not be receiving an English Manual.
Garmin Legend April 18, 2007
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
The product arrived well before its estimated date and in very good condition.
The product had all of the features advertised and was just what I needed.
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