|
Garmin eTrex Legend C Color Handheld GPS | 
 enlarge | Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $374.99
Buy Used: $150.00
You Save: $224.99 (60%)
New (1) from $158.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  46 reviews
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Tracks: 20
Batteries: 2
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 176 x 220
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 1.2 x 1.3 x 4.7
Bearing
Distance
Elevation
Heading
ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival)
VMG (Velocity Made Good)
Speed
ETE (Estimated Time Enroute)
Time/date
MPN: 010-00358-00
Model: 010-00358-00
UPC: 753759045555
EAN: 0753759045555
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: eTrex Legend C Color map navigator, not in box, never used, owner's manual & quick start guide, excellent condition - 0
|
| Features:
| • | Automatic route generation, off-route recalculation, turn-by-turn directions and more help navigate you safely to your destination | | • | Waterproof to IEC 60529 IPX7 standards (submersible in 1 meter of water for up to 30 minutes) | | • | Mini-USB port for fast, convenient download of map data | | • | 256-color, sunlight-readable display, 36-hour battery life and 24 MB internal memory | | • | Measures 1.2 x 1.3 x 4.7 inches (WxHxD) |
|
| Accessories:
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
The eTrex Legend C is Garmin's exciting, new, pocket-sized handheld that brings color, automatic routing, longer battery life, plus more to Garmin's popular-selling eTrex Legend. You won't miss a thing when you take this colorful, lightweight, easy-to-use handheld out hiking, biking, boating or even geocaching. The eTrex Legend C along with the eTrex Vista C are Garmin's smallest, least expensive products to combine a color TFT display and advanced GPS routing capabilities in a waterproof design.Outdoor enthusiasts will love the latest improvements made to the eTrex Legend C.
Amazon.com Product Description
Garmin's pocket-sized eTrex Legend C handheld GPS unit enhances Garmin's popular eTrex Legend with a color screen, automatic routing, and longer battery life, making it one of the smallest, least expensive waterproof products to combine a color TFT display with advanced GPS auto-routing abilities. You won't miss a thing when you take this lightweight, easy-to-use handheld out hiking, biking, boating, or geocaching. 
Compass indicates direction. View larger. | 
An easy-to-read color map. View larger. | 
Displays nearby attractions. View larger. | 
The eTrex Legend C packs advanced GPS navigation into a compact, waterproof device. | The unit offers a bright, transflective color TFT display for easy daylight viewing, automatic route generation, off-route recalculation, turn-by-turn directions with alert tones, and icon-driven menus for finding points of interest (when combined with Garmin's optional MapSource CDs). You'll get up to 36 hours of use on two AA batteries. The unit offers 24 MB of internal memory and its mini-USB port lets you download map data rapidly from Garmin's library of MapSource CDs (not included) with your PC. You'll enjoy outstanding accuracy of less than three meters (10 feet) when the device is enabled to receive enhanced GPS signals from the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) in the United States. Like on all eTrex units, the primary controls are located on the side of the unit, so you can operate it with one hand. An innovative rocker switch on its face makes inputting data easy, and with it you can scroll through menus or pan the map page. Other key features of the eTrex Legend C include an auto-route basemap (featuring general map data like highways, major roads, rivers, lakes, and borders); a waterproof design (to IEC 60529 IPX7 standards--submersible in one meter of water for up to 30 minutes); 500 waypoints/routes/tracks (with graphic identification); 50 reversible routes; 20 saved tracks; 10,000 trackpoints; TracBack technology); alarms (proximity waypoint, anchor drag, and off-course, as well as a built-in alarm clock); a GPS patch antenna; selectable audio tones and color schemes; a stopwatch; a hunting/fishing calendar; sun/moon calculations; and a trip computer. The Legend C includes a built-in, permanent basemap, Americas Recreational, which cannot be altered. The Americas Recreational Routable Basemap v2 includes the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central and South America, and covers an area from longitude 30 to 180 degrees west and latitude from 60 degrees south to 75 degrees north. It includes a high-level, worldwide map featuring borders and major cities. Standard map coverage includes oceans, rivers, lakes greater than 30 square miles, lakes greater than five square miles in the U.S. and southern Canada, lakes greater than 10 square miles in central and northern Canada, principal cities, some smaller cities and towns, major interstates, principal highways, political boundaries (state and international borders), major airports, and a database of Interstate exits for the Federal Interstate highway system. This last includes many establishments within about 0.25 mile of exits, including restaurants; diesel and gas stations; hotels, motels, and inns; overnight RV parking; dumps; campgrounds; truck stops; medical facilities; shopping and outlet malls; ATMs; and many more such attractions.
What's in the Box
eTrex Legend C GPS receiver, basemap (Americas Recreational), MapSource Trip & Waypoint Manager CD, PC/USB interface cable, wrist strap, quick reference guide, and owner's manual.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 41 more reviews...
 Useful and a fun toy November 24, 2005
61 out of 61 found this review helpful
Two months ago my family and I joined about 2.3 million others in leaving the Texas Gulf Coast as Hurricane Rita came our way. The road system could not handle that much traffic and a 3 hour drive turned into a 16 hour nightmare. Roads were clogged beyond capacity and I used a county map to navigate along back roads (gravel, shell, dirt and cowpath) to get ahead of a few thousand cars stopped on highways. That worked fine until the map ran out. Then we were stuck in traffic and melting heat. As we sat there I saw other people using nearby roads with confidence and I assumed they had better maps than I did. I was right, but their maps were on their GPS devices. The decision to buy a GPS was made then and there.
I did a lot of research trying to decide which device I wanted to buy and soon found myself lost in a sea of varying opinions. Right after reading a review that extolled the virtues of one unit I would read another that completely trashed it. Eventually I decided that the reviews here and at other sites were not going to give me the answer I was looking for and I would have to buy a device and try it for myself. Using reviews and some common sense I decided that the Garmin eTrex Legend C was a good bet for a trial and ordered it from Amazon.
After giving it a real workout this last week I have to report that this device is a dream. When I chose the Legend C it was my intention that be our introduction into GPS navigation on road and off as well as to use for Geocaching.
We began using it the day we got it by entering an address and navigating to a friend's house on the other side of town. What amazed me was that it chose the same route I would have used, (from among several that were not as desireable). A few days later we used it on a 300 mile trip and it performed flawlessly. It even found our destination, a place in the middle of nowhere, past the end of the last marked road and in a pasture accessible only by a ranch road with no name (that was on the map I downloaded into the device from Garmin City Select Map CD). We used it in the field for several days and my son played with it almost constantly. Before we left to return home we used it to find our first geocache.
The Pros - Great battery life. I do recommend the 12 volt car power cable option because the backlight times out to conserve battery life. We used it for a week (kids sat there and played with it for hours trying to discover all of the features) and it's still on the first set of batteries.
- Easy to read display. Like most other color displays it washes out a little when direct sun is shining on it, but unlike the color display on my cellular telephone it only takes a small adjustment in angle to see the readout well. The display is sharp and automatically changes at dusk and dawn to make itself easier to view in different light conditions.
- Amazingly accurate. When navigating, the device provides warning of upcoming turns by beeping and changing the display. As you get closer to the turn it displays a countdown to the number of seconds before the turn. We were astounded by how accurately it marked the turns to the second.
- Quality of optional maps from the City Select CD. We were out in rough country where even the marked county roads are unpaved and barely maintained. The number of no-name ranch roads scraped out by graders, or are trails marked only by the track of other vehicles that use it, are how people get around once off the highway. Other than some of the smaller tracks this map found every gravel or shell private road we came across. We even found some roads that we had not known existed before as we saw them on the map display while driving around.
Ability to maintain contact with satellites. If you plan to use this in the car I recommend that you turn it on outside the car first and let it find the satellites. It seems to work faster that way. However, while it may take longer for the Legend to find the satellites from inside a vehicle, no matter how it finds them once it acquires the satellite signals it hangs on to them from inside the car. The only way we ever got it to completely lose the signals was to hold it down well below the line of sight from any window. I purchased the optional vehicle mount that suction cups to the windshield and I always had a great signal. Outside, under medium cover, it held signals without a problem. I did not have major cover to deal with so I can't say what would happen in a forest. I expect that the Legend would have the same problems as any GPS would when used under a heavy canopy of trees.
Cons - The device uses a small pointer button to maneuver through options on many of the menus. When trying to manipulate the pointer and then press it to enter an option, it is easy to make mistakes and make the cursor move when you meant to press "enter". A minor hassle but one you should be aware of.
The display is small for use as in vehicles. I could read it allright, but if I were using the device only for in car navigation I would a larger readout. But, as I said I chose this unit to perform a variety of GPS jobs.
Pro and Con - The maps from the CD were fantastic. I have yet to find an error. The "unlocking" process was not as much a pain as I expected from reading other reviews, but it was not as user friendly as I would like.
Maps are loaded by sections and urban areas really eat up a lot of memory. My next unit will have more memory or an expansion slot to add memory via SD or CF cards.
Final analysis. If you are looking for a GPS device to perform a wide variety of tasks on and off road then I highly recommend the eTrex Legend C. As an entry level unit it is expensive, but the cheaper devices had limitations that I was not prepared to live with. More expensive units offer more memory and other things that are nice to have, and of course you can find devices that are more specifically designed and useful for more narrowly focused applications.
Very happy with it... October 16, 2004
56 out of 57 found this review helpful
There really isn't much to say about the Legend C - it's an awesome
little GPS that lives up to it's promise of packing a lot of features
into a small package. The color display is great - you don't really
appreciate how much better your brain processes graphic information in
color until you experience it. The display's update and refresh rate
is also a lot faster - the map display really feels like it's working
in real-time while the earlier Legend and Vista did not. The Legend
lacks the Vista's electronic compass and barometric altimeter, but for
me this is actually a plus becuase the GPS-only elevation is more
usable in certain situations (like in a moving car or on an airplane
with a pressurized cabin). So even though the Legend C is less
expensive than the Vista I think it's the better of the two units.
 Send a message to Garmin. Do not buy this unit. October 29, 2004
23 out of 43 found this review helpful
I received this unit as a gift. It does NOT work with most software on the market. If you buy this unit you will find yourself tied to Garmin Software. You will not be able to use anything you already own! You will not be able to use the National Geographic range of software. You will be tied to high price poor quality software provided by Garmin even though this device supports USB you will not be able to use a Mac, because Garmin only support windows, and they have never done that very well.
Send a message to Garmin. Do not buy this unit. They are aggressive, anti-user and care not 1 dot about your enjoyment or safety. They provide sub-standard software - maps etc - at high prices, and now they FORCE you to use it. YOU HAVE NO OTHER OPTIONS. Others provide better maps. Better software. Others do a better job and Garmin software sales suffered. So rather than improve their software, they force you to use only their software. they removed support for the most universally accepted standard - NMEA.
This unit has a hard time showing you where you are going because the base map does not contain the detail you require in order to ensure you are on the route you need to be on. Forget this unit if you want to hike.
I for one have gone back to my Sportrak. I also sent this review to Garmin.
Nice Compact GPS November 19, 2004
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
I decide to get Legend C over Vista C, because the only difference is the altimeter and the stationary compass. If you are moving Legend C will activate the compass and show you the direction of the north. This unit comes only with basic map with highway, no local street, making it useless without additional map software City Select North America V6, which cost over a hundred dollars. I got the map software from GPSNOW and it's great. With the traffic on the freeway/highway I always wanted to use the side street near downtown LA, but concerned about getting lost and I never took side street. But after I got this GPS with map, I tested the unit near the city by taking the side street I never took. It beeps me before the turn, and if I made a wrong turn it automatically reroute the map and I got to the destination without any problem.
PROS: very compact, nice color even in daytime, battery last long. map reroute quick.
CONS: must get City Select map, small screen might be problem of some people. the rocker button does not click well. for left handed use.
eTrex Legend C GPS November 21, 2004
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
I bought my Legend C the moment it was available and replaced my original legend so that I could get the autorouting and 24mb . I found that it also replaced my GPS V with 19MB. The MB is critical since you need to load the detaoled City Select maps in order to get address to address guidance. It is great to arrive at the airport, pick up your car and have turn by turn guidance to your destination, hotel or restaurant address and phone numbers in the palm of your hand!
The City Select software is very expensive - but it is exceptional and probably the best available at any cost. The smallest hotels and auto repair shops are listed and directions take only a few seconds. I used a copy of Europe Metroguide 6 on a trip but it would not autoroute and the PC generated route was frustrating to follow. Perhaps I will get the City Select Europe soon, despite the cost.
|
|
|
|
2005-2007 Zone1electronics All rights reserved.
| |
