Garmin Nuvi 880

Not arguing Doug,just fishing for advice. If I was to upgrade to the 760 which will soon be updated to the 780 or 850/880 then I would lose heaps on the 660 which cost me over a $1000 and have a unit with the only advantage in a crumb trail.
I was thinking of the 7200 which JohnnyAppleseed has for $A1730.00 and in the states it is $US799.00 + freight $50.00 + GST over here if applicable. I could use my existing software for the Australian mapping and add OztroppoV2 for the offroad stuff. Should get out of it for less than a grand and have the big screen for my old eyes + reversing camera provision etc. Giving it a lot of thought. Ten years ago on the boat I could pull up a map on the screen, draw my intended route on the screen with a stylus, press a button and the boat would go exactly where I had drawn. I had full track back facility and could save the plot to exactly replicate my route next time out with full record of time of day, water temperature etc. This technology is not new and some of it could not be used on the road however I feel that the manufacturers are only slowly upgrading the technology in order to milk us into upgrading our toys.What do you think?
regards
Guy

guy
Fishing for advice....well ya got it....lol , If your looking for a unit just for Track record , over 4000Klm of it then these 3 units will, Garmins Quest, Sreetpilot 7200,GPS Map 276, and the Nuvi 760C.
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Hey all

There are some XM satellite radio trials happening in Australia right now. Guess it wont be long until it is an option here as well.

Cheers

A

>There are some XM satellite radio trials happening in Australia right now.

I can't, readily, see that XM will bring me anything which I can't already find on short wave and/or AM - except better quality audio of course. Am I missing something about satellite radio?

Mike Harding

Mike

I agree. I thinks nothing more than a marketing hype. GM in the US have invested lots of money into the project. Digital radio for Australia seems to be linked to IPOD sales aas a dongle has come onto the market that youlug into the latest generation IPODS to receive digital radio transmissions. Have alook at CNET they have a bit of info - I am a little confused as to whether it is satellite digital radio or land transmission digital that all this hype is about.

Cheers

A

John
Your a smart fella, you done well , hope you enjoy, I'm sure you will.

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Transceiver Services in Adelaide (ParaHills) are quoting the Garmin 760 at $685 inc GST.

FYI

John A

Got mine from the Good Guys, $679. :)

I thought I had (have) that on my GPS12XL which I bought for $535 about 10 years ago?

Is a bread crumb trail the same thing (essentially) as a track log? Albeit with a track log you might have to press a few buttons to get it onto the screen and then follow it manually?

Mike Harding

Its monday - and I haven't looked at Exploroz for 4 days.

Same thing different name alright Mike. Was riding the bike in an area of lots of unmapped tracks this weekend and I was using my garmin 111 of similar vintage to yours and its tracklog backed up by some UHF handhelds was very effective idea in just getting thru a very confusing array of bogholes and tracks.