Hi folks, until recently, I just used GPS like a Nokia N95 and a random bluetooth GPS, which takes ages to connect (they always do cold start, so I had do wait for like 10+ minutes to get a signal). Now, a friend of mine let me try his Garmin Etrex Vista HCx, and the difference is HUGE, like water to wine! I can get a signal inside my house (which was impossible to do with my other GPS) and it gets signal in, like, 5 seconds, it's amazing. I also enjoyed being able to map for more then 4 hours (the battery limit of N95 tracking) and the possibility to exchange the batteries since they're AA. Actually, I'm tired of the low time available to map in N95, and the fact I'm cycling around I have to return to home to charge it...
However, a Garmin Etrex Vista HCx costs US$933/EUR 636 here in Brazil, AFAIC way more expensive then elsewhere. I also don't need that graphical representation. What GPS do you recomend that have the same capabilities of fast connection, SD card logging and adding waypoints easily - i.e, the same chipset? Searching on the wiki, I found this huge list [1], if I search for GPS that have the same chip as that Garmin, would I get the same fast connection? 1: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GPS Thanks a lot. -- Arlindo Saraiva Pereira Jr. Bacharelando em Sistemas de Informação - UNIRIO - uniriotec.br Consultor de Software Livre da Uniriotec Consultoria - uniriotec.com Acadêmico: [email protected] Profissional: [email protected] Geral: [email protected] Tel.: +5521 92504072 Jabber/Google Talk: [email protected] Skype: nighto_sumomo Chave pública: BD065DEC
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