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| Garmin Foretrex 201 Wrist-Mounted GPS Navigator with PC Cable | 
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| Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $181.99
Buy New: $121.95
You Save: $60.04 (33%)
New (58) Used (2) from $117.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 5481
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Tracks: 20
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 3.3 x 1.7
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Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 010-00361-01
Model: 010-00361-01
UPC: 753759045876
EAN: 0753759045302
ASIN: B0001K2JD0
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great for yacht racing May 23, 2007
I've had my Foretrex 201 for almost 2 years now and it's still going strong. It's able to withstand a decent amount of punishment as mine still looks new after countless races. Having a wrist mounted GPS is very convenient and allows both hands to be free while still having access to crucial navigational and tactical information. Battery life is also very good, but since the batteries can not be changed I would not trust it for a long distance race unless you purchased the DC charger. I only have two minor gripes with it. One, the yacht timer would be more useful if it could display both the time and the countdown, therefore I don't bother using this feature and instead use the yacht timer on my watch. Second, when using routes if you have a race course that starts and ends at the same mark it's very difficult to get it to route to the first mark since if you're close to the start/finish mark it thinks you're already at your final destination. Also on routes, it doesn't set to the next mark easily. If you set it to change marks automatically it does it either too early or too late. I tend to avoid using routes and just pick the mark I need manually.
the best GPS for a traveller May 13, 2007
I have been using the Gramin Foretrex 201 for close to 3 months now and can never step out on a weekend without it.. I travel a lot in the US, Europe and Asia.. my primary use for the Foretrex is to use it on my roadtrips, hikes etc to record tracks and upload them to Google Earth Plus...I like to take a birds eye view of places i've been to... and the Foretrex does its job better than i expected...
The Foretrex Intergrates very well with Google Earth Plus... if using the serial port is a problem or your notebook doesn't have one you can get a Serial to USB converter for under 15$.. i have one and it works perfectly..
The accuracy is good if you enable the WWAS mode... even otherwise i found it wasn't too bad.. accuracy is about 30 feet without WWAS...
The Battery life is also good... i used it on a 12 hour road trip and it still had some life at the end of the day... so Gramin's 15 hrs may be accurate..
The track memory was also very good... i have never maxed out the memory even on my 12 hr road trips with record interval at 'highest'...
So bottem line... worth every cent.. and an awesome gadget for a traveller..
 Missed the Mark February 18, 2007
I purchased this unit of beach cat sailing as I had hoped to use it as a starting watch and perfomance monitor. Unfortunetly I found the unit to be sub par at best. I used the unit for two days of sailing before it's failures became too great for me to deal with.
The first issue I experienced was the paint on the front all came off on the first day I used it after a touching it with sunscreen on my hands. This isn't exactly something I would expect from an outdoors product.
The second issue I had with the unit was that it locked up frequently, requireing a reset of the unit. I am willing to tolerate a mild amount of this in an electronic product, but once every few hours was far too much.
The third issue and the one that really made it unusable for sailing was the pins that held the unit to the wriststrap would easily pop off when the unit was mildly bumped. I had the top pin pop out twice and the bottom pin pop out once while in the middle of a race. After each time I was forced to just take it off and stuff it in my pocket until after the race for fear the other pin might pop and I would loose the unit overboard.
I was excited when I saw the feature set of this unit, but I would say it has a long way to go to live up to what it is billed as.
Very Satisfied January 11, 2007
I purchased this for my 25 year old son who is a Rescue Swimmer in the navy. He has used it almost every day since Christmas and is very happy with it. I am not that much on high tech but he is.
Excellent mini GPS for Military use December 11, 2005
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I have been using the Foretrex 201 for over a year in Iraq. This mini GPS is an excellent peice of equipment that gives you that essential ten figure grid on the move whenever you need it, without having to physically pull it out of a pocket. It also has a basic but functional track system which memorises your routes between your own inputted points. Its simplicity, generous functions and potentially life saving feature of just like being another watch, make this an essential peice of equipment for those of you who need to know exactly where they are at the flick of a wrist. awesome, would'nt go out without it
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