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I am an experienced Garmin user, so it was not surprisingly for me some problems with readability of the screen. I knew what I bought. Overall it is a wonderful navigator, the elder brother of Dakota series.
What was not so good – it was a strange set of pre-defined profiles, usually they came all in English like Recreational, Automotive, Marine etc. This time the profiles were named different unknown languages and I had to delete them all, except Recreational. Sure, this can be done easily, but it is slightly strange to have this situation on the navigator ordered in the United States.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have owned a Gramin extra Legend HCx for several years now, I use it mostly in a urban environment both US and Europe, I have never been lost walking in the largest cities. This upgrade was well worth the money, the additional features and the ease of input with the touch c=screen are great.
Rating: 5 / 5
I replaced an Oregon 300 with a 450. Not only is the screen brighter and easily read in direct sunlight, the unit is faster and has several new software features.
Rating: 5 / 5
I like the 450 in all aspects except for display visibility in daylight, sometimes you just can’t read it. I also had to send the unit back because of poor battery life. Even with NIMH batteries, I could get only 3-6 hours from a set of batteries unless they were fully charged and I used them immediately, then I could get 8-10 hours. Garmin technical support acknowledged something is probably wrong with my unit, and is exchanging it. On the positive side, it maintains contact under poor conditions and the ability to make maps from Google Maps and Google Earth is extremely helpful. I used that capability to generate a city map for Budapest that turned out to be very accurate. All in all, I would highly recommend the unit assuming the battery problem is unique to my unit.
Rating: 3 / 5
Garmin’s engineers have created a great handheld GPS with good features. Unfortunately, they only did half of the job. The documentation is incredibly poor lacking any information on important details. For instance, the device has a set-up feature to tell it whether you are using Alkaline, Lithium. or NiMH rechargeables. Why? Does it recharge the NiMH batteries when externally powered? Are there different functionality/preferences for the different battery types? Nothing in the documentation to indicate why it cares.
Another example is the MicroSDHD card device. There is no indication of what size cards are supported. I installed a 16GB and it allowed me to install maps and such onto the card; however, when I attempted to install two DVD’s worth of 24K quads to the card the basemap application crashed and required me to reformat the SDHD externally before the GPS would recognized it again. Ok, so maybe the map files are limited to 4GB? Well I installed just shy of 4GB of topo onto the 16GB card and everything worked fine. However, when I attempted to install some geocache files and waypoints, it tells me that the drive is full (even though there is 12GB left). So I guess the GPS only supports cards up to 4GB.
As I said a great device, and the above limitations are something I can live with, but it would be nice if they put in a modicum of effort in writing a decent manual.
Rating: 5 / 5