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| Garmin Oregon 400C 3-Inch Touchscreen Handheld GPS Unit with BlueChart g2 Coastal Charts | 
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| Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $639.99
Buy New: $448.00
You Save: $191.99 (30%)
New (54) Used (1)
Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 5381
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Size: Garmin Part #010-00697-03
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.3 x 6.5
MPN: OREGON 400c
Model: OREGON 400c
UPC: 753759078584
EAN: 0753759078584
ASIN: B001B15SC2
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Not for Navigators November 3, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is not a chart plotter. You can not arrange a series of points on a chart and connect them to a route. You can arrange a series of points then go to a list (without the benefit of a chart) and string together a route from the list. Not what mariners want IMHO.
Because this product is not really made for marine navigation, it is a nice toy but worthless to mariners. Your first clue should be that the word CHART appears nowhere on this product. It does say map though!
Amazon shipping wrong unit. October 15, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
As of mid-October, I have ordered the 400c and received a 400i not once, but twice. I think it's a great unit, but beware of this problem Amazon is having.
 Not Sail Friendly October 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just broke this unit in on an ocean sailboat race from Miami to Fort Lauderdale and back.
First, I feel the need to clear up some misinformation provided by Weatherman. From his description, I am highly confident he was reviewing the 400i (inland lakes) not the 400c. Second, both units are waterproof to IPX7 standards (one meter/30 minutes). Finally, I want to know where to get those titanium batteries. New one on me! Perhaps he was talking about Energizer's brand of "high performance" alkaline batteries? I used NiMH as recommended by Garmin.
I liked the user interface, loved the touch screen, and tolerated the often hard to read display. Battery performance was good yielding eight hours on a pair of NiMH batteries with backlight maxed and WAAS on. I liked the carabineer, the robust battery compartment locking mechanism and much larger than usual rubber seal. The unit looks tough . . . like you could use it for a hockey puck. Didn't try that. I am in Miami after all. However, it did get sea splashed and rained on for two days with no ill effects.
What I did not like was the speed readout. We were on a 32 foot Evelyn averaging seven knots in about three foot confused seas. The speed readout was all over the lot easily ranging a knot higher or lower than actual from one second to the next. To form and educated guess of actual speed over the ground, you had to watch the readout for ten or twenty seconds and guestimate an average in your head.
Gasrmin support has confirmed via email that there is no way to "damp" or short-term average these readings in the GPS's own brain.I can't say that I have ever noticed this feature on a Garmin but none of my other three Garmin GPS's have ever exhibited this extreme twitchiness. My Simrad chartplotter allows you to exactly specify the short-term averaging that goes into the displayed speed output.
Until Garmin supplies a fix that is more intelligent than, for instance, "turn off WAAS" I would probably buy a different handheld chart plotter for sailboat racing.
By the way, we took top honors in the race. Little or no credit to Garmin this time out. It's tough trying to be all things to all people.
 EVERYTHING You Need To Navigate!! September 18, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Let me say that this little device gives you ALL you need to Navigate through the wilderness! I'll go so far as to say that it's cheating in the outdoors *grin*
First off, you take it out of the box and put in the batteries (not regular batteries but titanium, so that when you eventually purchase them you need to be aware of the difference as they cost more, but last longer). Power it up and away you go!
Now I used this in the deep north central area of Pennsylvania, where there is little to no cell reception, and the area is shaded with thick pines. This GPS easily picked up my location, gave me the topographical view, and switching screens gave me the sunrise/sundown and temperature and the direction I was heading. It also gives the barometic pressure so that you can tell if a storm is coming (lower the numbers the more chance there is of a severe storm on the way, higher the numbers the nicer the weather). It also gives you your elevation which I find to be very helpful as it also allows you to look ahead to see if you have a massive hill ahead of you or a deep canyon or are going to sea level. I'm telling you, it's like something an elite military squad would use.
Did I mention a color screen? The only part that could be larger would be the screen. It is three inches, however I'd like to see it wider.
And you can scroll ahead to see where you're going.
Battery time is good. I've not gotten 16 hours as the paperwork says, but it's been into 15 hours. I'd highly recommend taking along an extra pack of batteries when you venture outdoors.
Now for hiking/driving it has the feature most GPS to in gives how fast you're going, if you're going off track and by how much, and points you can be looking for (the system gives very detailed markings).
Now although I've only used it on a small stream (even that was listed), you're able to see lakes and how deep the various parts are (say is it a 12 foot drop from the edge where you are or is it a gradual drop).
Now what I've noticed is that this GPS locks onto the satellites quickly and gives you your location much quicker than say my other GPS.
The back battery part is waterproof. The whole unit itself is not waterproof. And it's not as rugged as I'd like to see.
Also it's a touch screen which makes it very easy to use.
In the bright sunlight the screen does not fade out as other screens do. And in the dark, it gives off just enough light to see it (not so much that messes up your night vision).
In ending using this I feel is best for someone outdoors (camping, hiking, boating). Not that it can't be used for driving but that many of the features are better suited for the outdoors (like the temp. you'll be getting the temp inside your car instead of outside the car).
You can purchase a detailed street map card for the card slot to make it more useful for driving, but since I have not, I cannot comment.
For the price it would be nice to have a hard case included. So I invested thirty bucks at my local electronics store for a hard case (mine is actually for a camera but it fits fine).
Also I put a screen protector on mine. It's a small piece of clear plastic that protects your screen from scratches, grease smudges, dirt, etc. which can be purchased from other online stores. Just look for one the same size as the device.
But again, for the outdoors or boating, this system makes it impossible to get lost.
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