I was shopping at Eden Prairie Center today in Minnesota. There is a Scheels store in there and I was pleasantly surprised to see that they had some Garmin devices on display and powered up. (I rarely see that at other stores I frequent these days.) One of them was the Garmin GPSMAP 67 it was released almost 3 years ago.
I was impressed that is was receiving signals from a number of satellites despite being inside a shopping center. I did switch it from GPS Only to Multi-GNSS and received signals from even more satellites.
My other big takeaway is I am so accustomed to using touchscreen displays on my Garmins, Android/Apple smartphones, tablets and laptop computers that using a non-touchscreen device seems like a step backwards to me. However, I suspect that non-touchscreen devices are more durable than touchscreen devices.
The first Garmin that I owned was a StreetPilot 2730. It had a touchscreen, but it also had four physical buttons to the right of the touchscreen for FIND, MENU, MAP and SPEAK. It also came with a remote control and I never used that.
The other thing I remember about that model was the loudspeaker. It was built into the power cord! There was also an external speaker jack and an FM transmitter to send a low powered signal to your vehicle FM stereo radio.
I was shopping at Eden Prairie Center today in Minnesota. There is a Scheels store in there and I was pleasantly surprised to see that they had some Garmin devices on display and powered up. (I rarely see that at other stores I frequent these days.) One of them was the Garmin GPSMAP 67 it was released almost 3 years ago.
I was impressed that is was receiving signals from a number of satellites despite being inside a shopping center. I did switch it from GPS Only to Multi-GNSS and received signals from even more satellites.
My other big takeaway is I am so accustomed to using touchscreen displays on my Garmins, Android/Apple smartphones, tablets and laptop computers that using a non-touchscreen device seems like a step backwards to me. However, I suspect that non-touchscreen devices are more durable than touchscreen devices.
The first Garmin that I owned was a StreetPilot 2730. It had a touchscreen, but it also had four physical buttons to the right of the touchscreen for FIND, MENU, MAP and SPEAK. It also came with a remote control and I never used that.
The other thing I remember about that model was the loudspeaker. It was built into the power cord! There was also an external speaker jack and an FM transmitter to send a low powered signal to your vehicle FM stereo radio.