New Garmin Devices

New devices means the abandonment of devices from only 1 to 2 years ago, including thousand dollor smart watches. Existing issues & bugs on the previous top-of-the-line devices (like the GPSMAP 67 & 67i) will now be forgotten. Focus is now on the "new" devices which now bring their own sets of issues & bugs.

And of the new devices, we also get a horse monitor which clamps onto the base of the horse's tail, right next door to the you-know-what.

So we have hundreds of watches (maybe exaggerated but seriously, look at the vast number on the website), trolling motors and now horse health monitors which will be forgotten when the new ones appear to take their place.

Have to scroll a long ways down to see any automotive devices. And not much (read nothing) new there either.

That is a good point. For example, my Garmin Zumo XT is typically connected by Bluetooth to my smartphone. The point being, it has internet connectivity. But the data stored on the device has grown stale in some cases. Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze and others have the ability to stay current. Garmin needs to be able to do that, too.

POIs often become stale very quickly. New businesses are added and others close. Garmin needs to catch up on those, too.

I actually would like to see some legacy features resurrected. Google search was a feature on my Garmin Mobile XT many years ago. Garmin nüLink! services looked useful, too.

I also understand that without a revenue stream to support these things, these is all just wishful thinking!

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/newsroom/press-release/automoti...

https://www8.garmin.com/automotive/nuLink_services

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I'd like to see another unit like the driveluxe series, with the mag mount containing terminals. Makes unit R&R quick and easy.

So True. New units means forgotten previous units. :.(

the pricing info is a bit intimidating.

This is helpful information.

Yes, especially since the device will be "forgotten" (at least as far as updates and bug fixes) after 1-2 years.

The now "top-of-the-line" GPSMAP H1/H1i Plus is also one of the buggiest (if not THE buggiest) handheld GPS units to be released by Garmin (according to many users who own the unit as evidenced at the GPSrChive site).

Hopefully, these users will get all the features that were supposed to come with the unit (like a simple altimeter/barometer plot that even old units like my eTrex 32x and even the very old eTrex Vista HCx are capable of) as well as the plethora of bugs to be fixed in the 1-2 years of firmware update life.

Users of the previous top-of-the-line GPSMAP 67/67i are still plagued with old bugs & issues that stand even less of a chance to be fixed now that the new H1/H1i has replaced it.

Oh, and all accessories made for the previous units that used the "old" Spine Mount system (bike mounts, belt clip mounts, backpack tether mounts, etc) are all 100% incompatible with the "new" Spine Mount 2 system on the H1/H1i. Users now get to pay the inflated price of the new unit as well as repurchase ALL new Spine Mount 2 accessories to get the unit usable as they were used to with their previous unit. Way to go, Garmin.

I recently purchased (and then returned after less than a week) a GPSMAP 67 (on sale for $399.00) because of a blatantly obvious, 100% reproducible UI error, seemingly introduced a few firmware versions back (last firmware update was in Feb 2025) that will seemingly never be corrected. The unit did NOT have this UI error with the release firmware version that came on the unit. I reported the issue to Garmin directly & they were able to reproduce the error 100% on their end. I'm glad I returned the unit when I did.

Maybe if more people did this (instead of waiting for a fix that may never come), Garmin would get the message.

Truckers got the refresh not too long ago with the dezl OTRx20 series, I was expecting something similar like a Drive x4. Then again when it comes to car GPSes there isn't really much that I can think of to add as a new feature... reliability over new features 100%.

I am glad that I just got the SmartDrive 66 and do not have to find a new device. The only thing I may look into is a front camera.