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Garmin Colorado 300 Bilingual Handheld GPS Unit with North American Maps | 
| Brand: Garmin
List Price: $533.32
Buy New: $379.99
You Save: $153.33 (29%)
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 3204
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Tracks: 20
Batteries Included: No
Native Resolution: 240 x 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 1.4 x 2.4 x 5.5
MPN: 010-00622-31
Model: 010-00622-31
UPC: 053759067060
EAN: 0053759067060
ASIN: B00128GKHG
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand New in the box
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| Features:
| • | Innovative Rock n Roller input wheel | | • | Wireless sharing of user tracks, waypoints, routes and geocaches between units | | • | SD card slot for optional mapping and user data storage | | • | User configurable profiles: automotive, marine, recreation, fitness, geocache |
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Amazon.com Product Description--January 21, 2008
Packed with features, Garmin's Colorado 300 includes a built-in basemap, high-sensitivity receiver, barometric altimeter, electronic compass, SD card slot, color display, picture viewer and more. Even exchange tracks, waypoints, routes and geocaches wirelessly between similar units. Slim, lightweight and waterproof, Colorado is the perfect companion for all your outdoor pursuits. Watch an interactive demo.
Share Wirelessly
With Colorado 300 you can share your waypoints, tracks, routes and geocaches wirelessly with other Colorado users. Now you can send your favorite hike to your buddy to enjoy or the location of a cache to find. Sharing data is easy. Just select "send" to transfer your information to other Colorado units.
Keep Your Fix
With its high-sensitivity, WAAS-enabled GPS receiver, Colorado 300 locates your position quickly and precisely and maintains its GPS location even in heavy cover and deep canyons. The advantage is clear — whether you're in deep woods or just near tall buildings and trees, you can count on Colorado to help you find your way when you need it the most.
Explore More
Colorado 300 comes with a built-in worldwide basemap with shaded relief.
Expand Your Horizons
Colorado also accepts SD cards, so you can use Garmin preprogrammed SD cards to add maps that serve any and all of your outdoor activities on land or water.
| Streets
| Inland Lakes
| Terrain
| 3D Terrain
| Coastal
|  |  |  |  |  |  | Conveniently plug in optional preloaded SD cards for all your outdoor activities on land or water. Just insert a MapSource card with detailed street maps, and Colorado provides turn-by-turn directions to your destination. Add select topographic maps to take advantage of Colorado's 3-D map view which gives you a better perspective of your elevation.
The card slot is located inside the waterproof battery compartment, so you don't have to worry about getting it wet. |
| Rock on. Find Fun |  |  | Colorado's innovative Rock `n Roller input wheel for easy one-handed operation and intuitive screen interface make it as easy to navigate the device as the outdoors.
Customize Colorado's interface based on your favorite activity.
Even show off photos of your excursions with its picture viewer. |
Experience Paperless Geocaching
|  | Colorado supports Geocaching.com GPX files for downloading geocaches and detail straight to your unit. You'll have at-a-glance cache descriptions and details to aid in your search. |
| Get Your Bearings |  |  | Colorado has a built-in electronic compass that provides bearing information even while you're standing still.
Its barometric altimeter tracks changes in pressure to pinpoint your precise altitude. View elevation data before you begin your ascent or descent. You can even use the altimeter to plot barometric pressure over time, which can help you keep an eye on changing weather conditions. |
Interactive Demo
Product Description
Gear up and explore the backcountry with the all-terrain Colorado 300. Packed with features, the Colorado 300 includes a built-in Basemap, high-sensitivity receiver, barometric altimeter, electronic compass, SD card slot, color display, picture viewer and more. Just take your pick from Garmin's preprogrammed SD cards including street maps, topographic maps, coastal charts or inland lake data of the US. You can even exchange tracks, waypoints, routes and geocaches. Share your waypoints, tracks, routes and geocaches wirelessly with other Colorado users. Now you can send your favorite hike to your buddy to enjoy or the location of a cache to find. Sharing data is easy. Just select "send" to transfer your information to other Colorado units. Intuitive and fun, Colorado features a Rock 'n Roller input wheel for easy one-handed operation and supports Geocaching.com GPX files for downloading geocaches and detail straight to your unit. Slim, lightweight and waterproof, Colorado is the perfect companion for all your outdoor pursuits. With its high-sensitivity, WAAS-enabled GPS receiver, Colorado 300 locates your position quickly and precisely and maintains its GPS location even in heavy cover and deep canyons. Colorado 300 has a built-in electronic compass that provides bearing information even while you're standing still, and its barometric altimeter tracks changes in pressure to pinpoint your precise altitude. You can even use the altimeter to plot barometric pressure over time, which can help you keep an eye on changing weather conditions. RoHS version available Built-in memory - 384 MB - SD Memory Cards Slot Waypoints/favorites/locations - 1000 Routes - 50 Track log - 10,000 points, 20 saved tracks Automatic routing (turn by turn routing on roads) Electronic compass Barometric altimeter Geocaching mode Outdoor GPS games Hunt/fish calendar Sun and moon information Tide tables Area calculatio
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Good Unit But... January 31, 2008
Cheryl McMurray (California)
26 out of 28 found this review helpful
I have used this GPS on hikes with navigational requirements and just general testing. These are my conclusions after a few calls to Garmin Support and searching GPS forums. The good news is that it is well constructed, has many features. If you buy the city, topo, and marine mapping, you can probably do it all. It has a fairly basic ease of operation (after you get the settings customized). The bad news is that the manual is way too general and if you want to do basic custom setups, you might have to call Tech Support but the unit is so new that even they don't always know the answers (do not e-mail them questions, call instead. Much better support). That's were the GPS forums can come in handy. The problems I have encountered is first and foremost how difficult it can be to view the screen outside (especially topo detail) unless you have the sun shining directly on it. The backlight under low light conditions (shade, early morning hours) outside will not help. The altimeter does not seem to be the most accurate at times and when you have the unit turned off, drive to a new location, turn it on, the altitude can sometimes still read your last location until you recalibrate it. Even with it set to auto calibrate and full satellite bars. NMHI rechargeable batteries do not work well with this unit if you value the backlight. There is a bug in their firmware (hopefully they will get it fixed soon) that will turn the backlight off permanently after a very short time and in some cases, that I have been reading, completely shut the unit off even when the batteries have a full charge. Some people have had problems with the current time not updating even after the GPS has locked into satellites and have been told to return the unit for an exchange, but mine has worked fine. The manual tells you how to access settings but gives no detail as to what the settings mean, leaving you to experiment, dig, accidentally find what you want, or call tech support for even basic things as transferring archived (saved) tracks to your PC, transferring topo map detail, or deleting archived tracks. Some of the things I have mentioned are bugs that will hopefully get resolved with firmware updates but right now, I can only moderately recommend this GPS. It has taken me a lot of time playing with this unit, experimenting, calling tech support, and reading blogs to operate it to my satisfaction (minus the bugs).
 This is a cool unit January 17, 2008
JCC (New York, NY United States)
17 out of 34 found this review helpful
I replaced my 60CSx with this. I have to say that it's a good replacement. It's definitely a step up from the 60CSx. The display is definitely sharper. The 3D map view is awesome.
After careful consideration of the merits of both the 300 and the 400T I decided that it was a better choice for me to get the 300 and save the $70 difference between the two. My rational is as follows. First, I already own the Topo 2008 so I can load any topo segment as well as plan with it on my computer. Second, I also own a 2GB SD card that I can put the maps on. I don't really need to have the entire U.S. maps in the GPS at once. I doubt that many people have a real need for that. Sure, it saves you the trouble of having to load maps every time you go to a different part of the country but how many time do you do that?
Finally, after much experience with the Garmin product life cycle in replacing my GPS from Vista, to 60CS , to the 60CSx, and now the 300, I don't think it's worth it to spend the extra money for the 400T when I have all the functionality of it when I use it in conjunction to what I just described above. That extra $70 can be better put to use in 12-18 months when the NEXT generation arrives to replace the Colorado series. I'm sure it will once again be much better in performance than the current leader.
Update: After using this unit for a few weeks I have to say that it still has a lot of bugs in the firmware that needs to be worked out. Garmin support has been good as well as forums in helping to answer question about these shortcomings. In terms of the hardware I would say that it's definitely a step up from the 60CSx; however, the firmware leaves a lot to be desired. I would say that it will probably take another 6-9 months before it gets to the level of the 60 Series in terms of stability and functionality.
Gorgeous Screen March 28, 2008
Gary Anderson (Albuquerque, NM, USA)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is an extremely cool GPS.
The screen is gorgeous. Big and sharp. The Topo 2008 maps look so cool with shading and 3-D.
The new control wheel really makes it easy to use. Far easier than any other Garmin unit.
It is well built, looks very cool and feels really good in your hand.
The recent firmware updates have solved most of the problems early buyers encountered when it first came out. I have no real complaints or problems that bother me.
I use it for hiking, biking, and driving. I put a 8GB SD card in and was able to load a lot of maps. I am really enjoying using it on my weekend explorations here in New Mexico.
I highly recommend it. Well worth the price.
 Pathetic April 8, 2008
Charlie (Boston, MA USA)
5 out of 13 found this review helpful
I've owned multiple GPS units over the years, including $10,000+ marine units. Generally had great experience with Garmin.
But the Garmin Colorado is a waste of money. Worldwide basemap only sees state highways and above. That's right, for $300+ you get a worthless navigation unit!
So you have to buy City Navigator for another $145. Defective disc won't load in any of 5 different PCs. Emailed customer support - no answer in a week. Called customer support, wait times 55 minutes, 50 minutes and 50 minutes! Sent disc back asking for replacement. No response.
Never again, Garmin. Time to sell my shares.
Too many complaints from people who don't own one! May 11, 2008
Jay Twilbeck (Ocean Springs, MS United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
It amazes me the comments made about this product in the gps forums and websites. I was very reluctant to purchase based on all of the complaints and whining. Now that I've had one for a week, I don't see what all of the complaining was about. It does everything I expected it to and more. All of the things I've read that others were complaining about can be done, but you have to actually read the manual. No it's not like the older previous models - that's what makes it new. Could it be improved? Of course. So could the Jaguar XJS, but you won't hear many people complain.
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