GPS vechile and hand held?

Research Garmin gpsmap 78sc - I have been looking at a hand held one too.

A very common scenario...check out mainstream resellers (such as gpsoz.com.au). They have cradles and suction mounts for various gps makes/models (plus external antennas that improve in-vehicle performance).

Any Android phone with Memory Map or Oziexplorer aps and a bunch of maps. On road, plus off road mapping, screen sizes from 3 inch to 5.5 ( or 7inch to 11inch with a tablet). It will have much better screen brightness and resolution than any dedicated navigator, be cheaper plus it will take photos, make phone calls, play music, tell you the weather, and 720,000 other things. If you get it on a plan you could even get it for very little or free depending on which one you get.

It is greatly depends what kind of on-foot navigation your are talking about. If it is exploring Sydney or Melbourne, then any kind of smart chonoze made gizmos will suffice (iPhone, iPad, Android etc). But if you need dependable portable unit look at something like Garmin GPS 72H - it WILL NOT navigate you in car (aka "turn right" and "turn left") and it has not got any pre-load maps. But it robust, solidly build unit with purpose build antenna that can do 3-D position (i.e. get elevation pretty reliable) incredibly accurate. It also floats (i.e. can be easy used on rain) and uses generic AA battery (very gentle on them). In conjunction with proper paper map it indeed can save your bacon anywhere. I have tried quite a few "navigators" in bush and all of them became useless gizmos once you remove them out of mobile reception. Actually in city they useless gizmos as well - in my city I will oversmart any navigator.
YMMV though.

Bushy
the Garmin nuvi 500 series is a GPS for both, handheld and cradle mount.
I have one
Regards
Adrian

Gday,
This is what I use....ASUS link
It does most things your PC does and a vehicle mounted and hand held GPS all in one.
Might be worth a look,

Cheers

I have various mapping apps on the iPhone and iPad. These have replaced to old hand held GPS units due to better maps and better visibility, not to mention vastly better battery life. My main phone is an iPhone 5 but I use a superseded iPhone 3Gs in a holder in the car (it also handles my music collection). The app licenses allow multiple units to run the software.

We have the hema and navman. Trip we are currently on ive used my anroid phone. I found the gps by accident. It wanted to up grade and thought ill give it a go. Pretty happy with it.

I have a garmin nuvi 50, a fairly basic street navigating device....it will run in the cradle or hand held on its internal battery for several hours.

Garmin also do..as far as I know the only marine GPS chart plotter that will also do turn by turn street navigation, and I understandn it will take topo maps too.
Will work, both in the cradles and on its internal batteries

GPS map 620.......I doubt that it will have the depth of on land mapping ability that the popular products have, But i don't know of another that takes marine charting.

cheers

Hello

I currently use a TwoNav Aventura which does both in car auto-routing with voice prompts and is also "hand portable". It is specifically designed for out door stuff so semi-ruggerdised unlike many phones or in car navigators (promoted as dual use) which are a bit on the soft side (i.e. one drop and smash or a brief dunk in some water and dead). Battery life is also good, an easy 8 hours or more (but depends on what you are doing).



As far as "off road" mapping goes it takes raster maps/air photos in ecw format maps (and some other formats) so no shortage of available maps which can also be used in other programs which is a bonus if you utilise a range of mapping programs...saves having multiple copies of the same map in different formats.

Unit will not suit everyone but for me its the best handheld gps I have ever had. I don't use the street nav much so can't comment on that side of things with much authority - it does get you there though.

Just another option maybe worth considering.

Cheers
Greg