Comments on: Garmin GPS 60 Non-Mapping Personal Navigation Unit

By: Laird

Laird — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:17:53 +0000

4.0 out of 5 stars
Garmin GPS
Nice unit but it’s for field use only. No road maps. Works good for GeoCash, or hunting and fishing.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:41:10 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
Good product for the price
This is my first GPS device, we started looking at different devices to track or mountainbiking rides.

By: Chofa

Chofa — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:05:49 +0000

3.0 out of 5 stars
Hard to use
I bought this specifically for geocaching. The instructions are insufficient to figure out how to punch in coordinates that you already know.

By: Xantara

Xantara — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:54:45 +0000

4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Unit
This is a great gps… very easy to use. I didn’t want a complicated interface, and this one is about as simple as it gets.

By: Laisha

Laisha — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:29:26 +0000

4.0 out of 5 stars
Repeatable locations to one inch, if you average for days!
This will be an oddball review. I own four GPS60 units and use them in amateur surveying. I bought them because they do waypoint averaging and accept an external antenna and…

By: Nuhad

Nuhad — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:56:41 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
Value & ease of use!
Picked this up at a great price (looks like it was on sale!) and we love its use for Geocaching. Pulls a signal better than my other two units.

By: Edgerton

Edgerton — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:24:05 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
Great for Geocaching!!!
This little unit is awsome. Husband and I started geocaching and after reading lots of reviews and getting suggestions from friends we settled on the Garmin 60. It is great.

By: Avis

Avis — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:34:37 +0000

The GARMIN 60 GPS is a nice GPS that is "base" no-frills model. I was able to plug it in, load the software, and start entering waypoints within 5 minutes. The plug and play USB port worked without a hitch.

The unit itself is very accurate -- although it took me 5 minutes to realize that I didn't have to wait and watch it synch with satellites each time I turned it on. The Unit's GUI is somewhat counter-intuitive - with 9 buttons -- some of which you hit all the time, others which are never used.

Entering coordinates does not appear to be possible (except onto the GARMIN software on your computer and transferring to the GPS unit), but this method works reasonably well.

The screen is fine, but not overly large (you should have 20/20 vision) and is black and white -- no color. This is not a complaint as the screen is perfectly read-able.

Battery life was approx 4 hours on 2 AAs. The belt clip and attachable hand-leash were nothing special, but utilitarian.

INSTALL: A
EASE OF USE: A
GUI on GPS: B-
POWER/BATTERIES: C
SCREEN: B

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:52:34 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
Garmin GPS 60
I have enjoyed this product since the day it was put into my hands. My brother has one and he enjoys it very much and its a great help geting places.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:19:30 +0000

2.0 out of 5 stars
Can’t understand the instructions
Have been unable to use the GPS to find out how many miles I’ve hiked on trails in the mountains because I don’t understand the instructions.