I read some reviews, ‘I am glad to say you will not be disappointed.’ from the http://www.gpstraining.co.uk. There could hardly be a better endorsement.
So excitement in the Osborne household was palpable. After a few goes with Ben’s Garmin Oregon 600 I took the plunge and bought the newer model Oregon 700. They do a 750 and 750t. But the only assets of these is a camera, more internal memory and the Garmin battery pack. I don’t need the camera and have got a 32gig memory card to sort out the space. The 700 is supposed to have many upgraded and clever features.
Now I resent Garmin forcing us to buy their battery pack, this pack pushes down the button in the center of the unit seen in the picture. Their pack is twice the price of other batteries and the Garmin batteries are mcu higher powered. So with the help of my son and Caz I attained a small piece of aluminium that pushes down the button when the batteries are inserted. Not really that exciting but I did it anyway – and it works
I have been playing with my new toy, downloading maps for my trip to Morocco, working with the set up and preferences. And after really less than a day of full playing I can safely say so far this unit is a load of Shite. It has reset ‘Activity Profiles’ to make it more customisable, personally I think they make it less customisable. The set up process is so unintuitive it is near impossible to work out what I have to do to programme it.
Because it is touch screen it tries to make everything clever and touch screen activated. The Oregon 600 didn’t have a Start/Stop button for any activity (to start recording your activity) so the Oregon 700 has put one in but it is quite hard to find, swipe up from the bottom (yes I know once it is found it is easy to find again) But I did have 2 or 3 hour search (yes really maybe more than a 3 hours) to try to stop the timer from it automatically starting – there is a preference that I found to stop it but I could not find it again. Not that I want the unit to start recording an activity automatically. I think a physical start/stop button really would be an asset. Obviously these things are new and I will get used to them in due course.
The unit is trying to be so much clever than it has to be.
I have been using the Garmin Edge 810 and the Wahoo Bolt both of which are so much more intuitive. How can they do one unit that is so easy and another that is so complicated.
Garmin Edge 1030 here I come. (Alan I need your advice.)
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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