GPS with street navigation

"The only unit that does the lot"

As discussed before the 276 is a good unit but it actually doesn’t “do the lot” and in fact lacks many features of other units (though has a few others don't).

No voice prompts is possibly a feature some would like in a street nav unit so the 276 fails the "does the lot" in this respect.

Being waterproof is a bonus but not sure I would pay the extra for this when its sitting on the dash in the car all the time. Good for those deep water crossing I suppose :)

Always a tough question to answer.

Cheers
Greg

Hi Greg

I remembered your note when this question was just asked a couple of weeks ago and so mentioned to get the 276c with its mem cartridge , after a couple more of these we should perfect answers we can cut and paste.

On the spoken voice assistant , they do have it , and more than that they put it to the output plug so that you can wire in your own seperate speaker.

Maybe you mean some special type of reply type ? , anyway I hate being told what to do by a female voice so I have disconnected the voice and use its multiple beep option, but some friends like the voice.

The features of waterproofness and high screen output are needed because the 276c is also designed to fit in your pocket and be taken for a walk or to double as a marine unit subject to salt spray on a boat hence in addition it also takes the blue charts.

I'm pretty sure its the only unit that does the lot in one way or another, even
has a sonar sensor input for deep water , but I'm hoping we never need that.

Hi Greg

I think I know where the impression that it does not have voice comes from - while it does have it there is no internal speaker, the speaker is part of a seperate 12v cigarette lighter power plug acessory, or you add your own external one.
Its designed like this as part of its boat specification , where you can have voice warning below in a cabin as well.

No worries - my mistake, learn something every day (re sound). The 276 is a great unit but still don’t think it does the lot. Memory cards could be a signifficant issue for some so worth mentioning when ever discussing this unit.

For some I would actually suggest getting a far cheaper Nuvi to handle the in car stuff and a handheld for outdoors work...all possible at a less cost than the 276 by itself (depending on what models you choose). Though trouble with this plan would be cost of two sets of maps (if you got Oztopo or Garmin topo that is). Main conundrum people have to day (as we see by the frequent questions on the subject) is too many choices.
Cheers
Greg

I've done the same for the last three years too, the unit hasn't missed a beat in all that time and many thousands (16.5k over 4 months this year alone).
Has proven to be very reliable, much more so than a laptop or PDA which I ran previously.

You can use the same maps for Ozi on the laptop and the PDA/CE device without conversion? Did I misunderstand you? Sorry if I did.

Mike

I've just bought a 7" Chinese too. When you are setting up OziExplorer what answer do you select for "GPS Make?"

John B

sorry if someone has already said this but the forum is very long. The Hema has a new model coming out with a larger screen BUT most importantly I have been informed by a shop here in Adelaide that they have also changed the manufacturer as they were not happy with the reliability of the current model. Coming out Jan next year apparantly but the 5" screen will be the clincher that you are buying the new model and not the old stock.