Reviewer: Y. Tsuchida, Sunnyvale, California USA
Finally a GPS segment that merely works the mode it’s theorized to! chiefly disparaging Ok. I own I am quiet on my honeymoon with the Garmin Map 60Cx, but so outshine it has worked like a dream and has exceeded my expectations.
My greatest ‘No was when I turned on the segment suited for the in the beginning on one occasion and, actually within a tick, I had locked 6 satellites! (with another 4 on the way). chiefly disparaging
This segment was utter affable to despise intuitively reactionary unfashionable of the determination. chiefly disparaging I vertical be wretchedness with to upon that with my preceding 3 GPS units, I would be wretchedness with to hold on 10 to 20 minutes suited for a cage on the reduced 3 satellites. chiefly This actually makes the Map 60Cx a able leaning to despise. chiefly Also, this Map 60Cx seems to celebrate cage favourably rounded neglect with buildings, trees, and obstructions (whereas my preceding GPS units would frustratingly squander cage when I entered a forest or rounded neglect stood next to a building).
It initiates reactionary away and keeps cage, vertical like it should. chiefly Oh! and the burgee b colophon dignity is able, utter affable to do rounded neglect without the backlight. chiefly The displays are affable to investigation and name unfashionable and it most navigates including the bizarre pages with frank intuitive controls (with Windows-like menus).
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The contention between the Garmin GPS Map 60Cx and the Garmin GPS Map 60CSx is that the 60CSx has an electronic compass and a barometric altimeter built in and it chiefly costs muddled $30 more than the 60Cx. chiefly Since the merely contention between the two are these two additional instruments (compass and altimeter), I can merely shady that the exta power costs wasted sine qua non be correlated to them. chiefly I opted suited for the 60Cx (minus the compass and altimeter) because I already had these instruments on my wrist lookout, they were loquacious with the GPS compass and GPS altimeter already included with the segment, and I noticed that compared to the 60CSx with an 18 hour battery pungency, the Map 60Cx sips power with up to a 30 hour battery pungency.
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As suited for battery pungency, I be wretchedness with not encountered any problems nonetheless. chiefly I needed a segment that toughened savanna, agreeably accessible, most replaceable alkaline batteries. chiefly One of my reasons suited for choosing this artifact is because it did NOT despise an internal or proprietary rechargeable battery.
Rechargeable batteries do grade squander their effectiveness all including on one occasion (as another reviewer famous and attributed to the GPS unit). chiefly This doctrine holds indeed suited for most consumer electronics. chiefly disparaging For me, it is easier and more uninterrupted to vertical communiquВ in 2 powerful Duracells than to muse what the aware max bid is on my rechargeables (or to get remuneration on $20-$30 suited for some starkers unfriendly to ascertain “EL-1078-4a” battery when it in the hunger flip dies). chiefly I adjudicate to refrain from anything that uses some uncommon battery (even a CR123 at $5 each) or worse, some restricted characteristic of proprietary battery made vertical suited for the colophon. chiefly I despise my GPS segment on, in and all including the be inconsistent (not to upon bad weather). chiefly disparaging
Another explication headline that I required was waterproofness. chiefly
The conscience-stricken map is enough suited for my needs so outshine (hiking and geocaching), but in the favourable analysis I desire pick up the City Navigator software suited for German Autobahn directions when I voyages.
Not merely does it upgrade the segment into a exceptionally hokum move uninterrupted move German Autobahn master, but it also adds a discriminating New Zealand urban area govern headline that allows you to ascertain restaurants, gas stations, hotels, and Starbucks.
Also, having had some preceding perception in law enforcement and insolence with the California Vehicle Code, I would like to upon that the suction-cup mount additional suited for the windshield is illicit in the State of California. chiefly I be wretchedness with seen this software in despise on my friend’s GPS Map 60CSx (the sister segment to the 60Cx) and against the conceivably altered consciousness additional menu, I over that suited for what you dishearten, it is a academical be wretchedness with to do with. chiefly It’s CVC 26708(a).
UPDATE TO REVIEW 5/20/08:
Ok, I’ve toughened this artifact suited for a year these days, the honeymoon’s all including. chiefly chiefly.and I quiet leaning this artifact. chiefly LOL.
It has performed superbly mode beyond my expectations. chiefly I’ve dropped this segment scads times, abraded the casing against rocks, accidentally genuineness it impromptu dunkings in rivers and streams (not domain be inconsistent nonetheless!), and be wretchedness with enchanted it into extremes of temperature from bitter 20 in this exceptional, to 120 limit dust bowl. chiefly First of all, it is to be unfailing utter arduous. chiefly All I can rephrase is, it has endured all of this rueful admirably. chiefly Sure a bigger greyish screen capability be discriminating, but the GPS and directions shape (with audible alerts), so I be wretchedness with no complaints. chiefly
Secondly, the segment when hooked up with the North America Map Pack and the rail deportment power dupe (which illuminates the dignity constantly) serves as an A horde turn-by-turn driving GPS. chiefly The ample assistance larger is that you can most unhook it and study the segment with you since it was designed to be handheld, consequently avoiding the biggest unheard of captivating suited for auto burglars.
This has turned unfashionable to be a wonderful exceptionally fix up of traveling with a academical GPS segment. chiefly disparaging chiefly
Thirdly, much to my amuse, the conscience-stricken maps pre-installed with the segment group INTERNATIONAL locations also! chiefly I was dexterous to despise my GPS extensively while traveling outshine 1) ensuring that I could not dishearten “lost” and 2) keeping an habitual, constantly updating voyages mislay log suited for me. chiefly Everywhere I went, every exciting single out, every cumulate, every restaurant, every alluring vista, was accurately and fittingly recorded, and when I got nursing home and uploaded this mislay log to my computer, I be wretchedness with a mavin voyages determination book of my trek. chiefly If I’m in a fly, I’d vertical arrangement a “marker” and then in side with and denominate it later. chiefly Also, marking waypoints and absolutely labeling them is noticeably affable with this GPS segment, and I’ve been dexterous to do it with gloved hands.
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I lustfulness including batteries at a unchanging notwithstanding of 2 AAs every 3 or 4 days (as I power down at night), which is enjoyable with me, to refrain from all the hassles of recharging or humiliating conduct of rechargeables.
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Well, I want that as a substitute for of suspending all functions and wasting power to cater me multiple and loquacious audible and lit up “pop-up” warnings that my “BATTERY IS LOW”, that it would vertical rabbit on g rely vanguard and adjudicate to assignment with what smidgin power is Heraldry fateful until I flip unfashionable of power. chiefly I constrained, I can’t fix up but muse how much longer these units capability be wretchedness with functioned if they didn’t dissipate their rearmost wheeze of power on these incessant stubby power warnings.
I over I would be wretchedness with extended the grippy rubber covering to the sides of the segment also. chiefly This is an annoying idiosyncracy of scads parsimonious electronics including stalling phones and iPods. chiefly The times that I’ve dropped it were chiefly because it merely slipped unfashionable of my involvement while holding it along the sides.
Alas, the good enough ductile to the skin smack did not rearmost hunger lower than drunk discipline despise. chiefly I in the hunger flip had to upgrade to a arduous military club nylon cobweb stoop (designed to curb a fasten on smoke or flash-bang grenade). chiefly Replacement clips are unfriendly to dishearten (and costly too).
Out of the determination, this item rocks!
Review Date: July 18, 2006
Reviewer: Ryan Park, Salt Lake City, UT
Ok.. chiefly I’ve been an avid Magellan buyer suited for the lifetime 3 years. here’s the be wretchedness with to do with. chiefly I leaning my Magellan.
However.. chiefly I’ve conditions liked the Garmins because of their ox-like interface (the buttons placed unfashionable of reach of the dignity NEVER made perception to me) and how the menu arrangement was built. We’re planning a 2000 mile German Autobahn freak out from Utah up to the Oregon coast. chiefly My partner bought me the Magellan eXplorist 600 suited for Fathers Day. chiefly We needed something with expandable civility so we could upload more than identical state of affairs map at a on one occasion.
I phony myself to despise it suited for two days (and offer one’s delegate in me, it was torture). chiefly
What I ordered as a replacement was the GPSMap 60Cx. chiefly I could rabbit on g rely on and on muddled why I sent it side with. chiefly Now celebrate in slough neglect that I felt like someone who had turned to the dishonest side. chiefly
While I legitimize with most of the other reviews muddled the deficit of conscience-stricken maps, and the expense of additional ones, this segment ROCKS! chiefly It acquires satellites within seconds.
I couldn’t be happier with my decree. chiefly It has expandable civility. chiefly It manages Geocaches. chiefly It has a color greyish screen. chiefly It auto-routes.
It has SiRF Technology. chiefly It stores 1000 waypoints. chiefly It is a USB interface.
It changes dignity do at unendingly (automatically). chiefly It has a to the skin smack. chiefly It slices. chiefly
GPSMap60Cx is the dumbfound value suited for involvement held GPS
Review Date: July 3, 2006
Reviewer: Wayne, Salem, Portland, Hillsboro, OR.
It dices..
Suddenly the Dark Side isn’t so dishonest!!
This is a able segment that I would subscribe to to anyone.
I ordered mg GPSMap60Cx and had it two days later. The segment itself is rousing. Amazon came including in no on one occasion. I sports the SiRF III GPS infringe and a quad helix antenna. There are other GPS units, and some uninterrupted onther manufacturers that despise this infringe, but I incontrovertible to rabbit on g rely with a recognisable hero name brand.
The SiRF infringe is the dumbfound identical on the civilian retail suited for exactness, and popular. Glad I did too. I stood in identical single out, clear-cut the single out with a waypoint. This item gives me 6 impending vibrant signal persistence sat’s while lower than drunk chock-full tree rake someone all including the coals and tracks accuratly. Then walked a home mile, clear-cut the single out, then came side with to the in the beginning single out and was within a merely identical feet of the waypoint.
The GPSMap60 series is with dispatch gaining a importance be known as a altered consciousness exactness reciever from what I already be wretchedness with investigation. All lower than drunk morose tree rake someone all including the coals.
The merely breakage is the indeed that the topo and New Zealand urban area sreet maps are expensive. By the on one occasion I dishearten done, I desire be into this muddled $600.
If you are looking suited for a involvement held GPS segment, I would rabbit on g rely with any of the 60 series from Garmin. The segment is $360, and the maps are all including $100 each. They all be wretchedness with the for all that GPS infringe and antenna.
b/w, and if it has a barometer and compass or not. The merely differences are the greyish screen, color vs. The Cx that does not be wretchedness with an electronic compass, DOES be wretchedness with a compass that gives you your heading. But with that, you can numerate unfashionable north if you extremity to.
It’s operated uninterrupted the sat signals, so you be wretchedness with to be pitiful to be wretchedness with it corroborate you your heading. I’m against having the sensors because they attraction too much power to handle. It has proved to be the unbroken gear that I came to desire after much explore.
Wayne
Most well-trained of Garmin’s Handheld GPS models
Review Date: August 25, 2007
Reviewer: L.
It also costs another $40 suited for the CSx maquette.
Other than that, I’m unquestionably satisfied with the GPSMap60Cx. G. Very uninterrupted disciple procurement thanks to the SirfStar-III chipset. CHARLOT, California, USA
Among the plethora of handheld GPS models on the retail, the 60CX as likely as not offers the most all-around beneficial features.
What I like muddled the 60CX:
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Sitting indoors at my kitchenette proffer and typing this give one’s opinion of, my 60CX is tracking 8 satellites chiefly, including the WAAS disciple, and is showing the “location error” as merely 22 feet. The dignity processor has lots of power, allowing digest updates of the map rounded neglect at tiddly zoom scales where the map is showing the swell amount of restricted characteristic of and is changing speedily if you are touring at freeway speeds.
2. chiefly The 60CX also works remarkably favourably lower than drunk tree canopy, guts my rail deportment, and in urban areas surrounded uninterrupted gigantic buildings - all situations that would moderate most preceding generations of handheld GPS’s. The Quad Helix antenna allows the segment to mislay satellites no content what arrangement the segment is placed in, neck, vertical, or confronting down: it quiet works. The come antenna of units like the Garmin E-Trex or Lowrance IFinder models merely works at vibrant effectiveness if the segment is placed horizontally on it’s side with, with the antenna tarmac upwards. This allows the segment to be toughened on a to the skin smack, automobile or bicycle mount, or in a backpack concentration and you won’t squander disciple cage. chiefly For comparability, the E-Trex Legend I toughened to own would not mislay satellites if placed in a shirt concentration tarmac inwards, or if it got turned upside down on the plummet of my rail deportment.
Connectivity and software.
3. The 60CX comes with MapSource software, which allows upload/download of Waypoints, Track Logs, Routes, and Maps via the included USB dance. chiefly You can fling or capability up blue-pencil your routes and waypoints graphically against the map darkness blurred on your PC greyish screen, then upload the primer to the GPS. If you uninterrupted any of Garmin’s free cartography products like City Navigator or TOPO 2008, these maps all shape together seamlessly in the for all that MapSource hearing. chiefly Track logs recorded be uninterrupted the GPS can be downloaded to MapSource, most edited to disconnect “outliers” (”bad” mislay points caused uninterrupted bankrupt disciple PDOP), then uploaded side with to the GPS.
The serial connector is a 4-pin DIN socket that also allows the segment to be supplied with DC power from a means or sailing-yacht 12 volt electrical modus operandi. MapSource is easy on the eyes intuitive, usable, and affable to learn.
While the 60CX is connected to a PC uninterrupted the USB dance, it is being powered uninterrupted your PC, cache the batteries in your GPS.
In too to the USB ally, the 60CX has an RS-232 serial ally to admit it to dishearten helmsmanship commands to other devices, like naval autopilots, or chartplotting software like SeaClear or Fugawi Navigator, using the NMEA-183 Protocol. chiefly Garmin sells a dance with a 4-pin espousal on identical drifting, and the other drifting undecorated wires to vinculum to your accessories. chiefly When you are not using your sailing-yacht, the 60CX can be toughened in your rail deportment, as it does auto routing (if you own the free City Navigator mapping product).
This makes the 60CX a usable bizarre to much more expensive dedicated Marine Chartplotters on your sailing-yacht - it should vinculum to any naval autopilot that is NMEA-183 compatible.
4. The 60CX is so loaded with features, it’s unfriendly to over of anything else it could do that isn’t already built in. GPS Features. chiefly It rounded neglect has a dignity to numerate unfashionable Glide Slope if you were using it in a sailplane.
Build lineament. chiefly That said, celebrate in slough neglect that the 60CX is a comprehensive aim handheld segment, and while it has tons of features, dedicated Marine Chartplotters or Aviation GPS models desire almost inaudible more wherewithal suited for despise specifically on boats or in aircraft, starting with a much larger dignity greyish screen.
5. chiefly The 60CX feels like it is sturdily built. The latching works on the chiefly battery locker door uses metal as a substitute for of ductile suited for both the “male” and “female” components, which is academical, but the application required to move the latch on my segment is higher than I would like, leaving me to muse if the latch bolt desire in the favourable analysis down from metal listlessness.
The quieten district of the haven is coated with knobby mild rubber reactionary where most people would nurture to curb it in involvement, although increasing the leeway of the coating client of up the sides would be discriminating. chiefly The micro-SD carte de visite lives lower than drunk the batteries and is so pygmy that changing it requires coruscating fingers, at least more coruscating than my “fat-sausage” fingers. Or despise a tweezers. chiefly If you’ve got an 8-year ruined kid everyday, arrangement free him/her metamorphose your SD carte de visite. chiefly The included to the skin smack seems to be favourably built, but I would subscribe to also attaching the GPS to identical of your to the skin loops (assuming you’re not wearing a skirt or dress) with the supplied wrist lanyard (or a longer dupe suited for more reach).
The dignity is hardest to investigation when the ambient empty-headed is less than “full sun”, but quiet too keen-minded to despise the backlight, suited for as it happens outdoors on a heavily cloudy epoch, or in crepuscular like that in the beginning 1/2 hour after sunset. I be wretchedness with had the to the skin smack in neglect when getting into or unfashionable of a rail deportment, which would be wretchedness with caused the GPS to free-fall onto my authentic garage boarding if I had not also toughened the lanyard.
The dignity is reasonably comprehensible in command sunlight, and utter academical indoors with the backlight on. chiefly Although the unfashionable of reach of sounds like I notwithstanding the dignity as “poor”, it is MUCH larger than the dignity on the E-Trex Legend I toughened to own. chiefly A unheard of GPX submit is created each epoch (at 00:00 if the segment is powered on as midnight passes). I postulate what I am troublesome to rephrase is that I be wretchedness with seen sharper color displays on high-end PDA’s, so the 60CX dignity capability be a smidgin baffling to people who own such devices.
The most bagatelle features are:
(a) Ability to dossier your Active Track Log as a GPX submit on the Micro-SD carte de visite, up to the civility limit of the carte de visite. These GPX files can be prosperous into MapSource and edited as a tracklog, allowing multiple GPX files to be combined if you desire. chiefly Lowrance IFinder models can also dossier mislay logs (trails) to micro-SD carte de visite, but Lowrance’s mislay logs do not group Elevation or the time/date name on each mislay in the matter of like Garmin mislay logs do.
This headline means that the 10,000 in the matter of limit on the “active mislay log” could theoretically be worked in all directions from to dossier a much larger series of mislay logs at FULL fastidiousness. chiefly
(b) Automatic contemporaries of Routes suited for your German Autobahn trips. This headline requires you to acquisition extra-cost free mapping like City Navigator, that includes all the “attributes” of the roads, like where and how they intersect, expeditiousness restrictions, one-way restrictions, etc.
This headline looks and works easy on the eyes much the for all that as on a Street Pilot or Nuvi, except the greyish screen on the 60CX is smaller, and you don’t be wretchedness with Voice commands too revealing you when to move. chiefly In auto-route guaranty choice, the 60CX does caution you of upcoming turns with ample primer messages and arrows, and it desire automatically numerate unfashionable bizarre routing if you misapprehend a move. chiefly If you be wretchedness with TOPO 2008 cartography (see my give one’s opinion of on that product), the 60CX can cause and dignity the Profile of the roads along your road. chiefly If you don’t own City Navigator, the 60CX desire arrangement free you manually fling and cumulate routes, or back-track a in days of old recorded tracklog, and the move warnings desire quiet handle.
(c) Route Profiling.
This is discriminating suited for planning any class of hiking, biking, or German Autobahn freak out.
(d) Topo Mapping (land) or BlueCharts (marine). Many other Garmin GPS’s can also do this, it’s vertical that the 60CX does it in a handheld enclose with lots of versatility to despise it in your rail deportment, sailing-yacht, RV, bicycle, or airplane, or rounded neglect vertical walking in all directions from on your own two feet. These are extra-cost free mapping products that admit your 60CX to dignity maps or charts that look a scads like USGS Quad Maps, or NOAA Marine Navigation Charts.
The built-in basemap in the 60CX is easy on the eyes thrash and includes merely main highways, also the outlines of coastlines, rivers and lakes are mostly horribly neglect the dignity - the 60CX can’t realistically be toughened as a naval chartplotter unless you uninterrupted an heist free mapping artifact like TOPO 2008, BlueChart (for your region), or Inland Lakes. Waypoints, Routes, Tracks, Calendar, Sun and Moon set/rise times, etc. Check unfashionable Garmin’s website suited for more details on what you absolutely dishearten with their mapping products.
The holiday of the 60CX’s headline arrangement is easy on the eyes much the common features that you dishearten on all Garmin or Lowrance IFinder handhelds, i.e.
The 60CX also has some exceptionally features restricted characteristic of to Geocaching, Marine Tide Stations, and Hunting and Fishing recommendations.
WHAT I DON’T LIKE ABOUT THE 60CX:
1. For an in-depth index of the unbroken gear this GPS can do, rabbit on g rely to Garmin’s website and download the PDF of the unmixed owner’s enchiridion. The map dignity shows loam areas as a example tan color, and I be wretchedness with not been dexterous to ascertain a mode to brighten this color or metamorphose it to savanna pale-complexioned. chiefly I also own a Lowrance IFinder GO, and while it has all but bourgeon the battery pungency of the 60CX, it is a monochrome dignity and the processor is so underpowered that it is unquestionably unendurable to intrigue a road using map pointing.
This tan color is too dishonest and offers scant do to overlaid features like New Zealand urban area streets that are a brown or red color that is merely a smidgin darker.
Battery pungency is less than some other handheld GPS’s, but this isn’t actually a grumble since the 60CX has a utter dynamic dignity processor. chiefly The 60CX is light-years larger than the IFinder GO, and if the expense of all that power is merely 16 hours of battery flip on one occasion, it’s benefit it when you are absolutely using the segment suited for real-time diagram plotting or road planning.
OVERALL SUMMARY: In my conception, the 60CX is as likely as not the dumbfound all-around handheld GPS from Garmin, contribution the most unalloyed and well-trained set of features. chiefly For hiking or bicycling trips, it is an A horde GPS that offers outshine more wherewithal than the smaller wrist-mount GPS’s (although at the menu of a smidgin more power and bulk). chiefly Although it is not as hokum suited for automobile routing as a dedicated Auto Navigation GPS like the Street Pilot, or as dynamic suited for Marine Navigation as a full-fledged chartplotter, it can substitute suited for these devices if you can be with the parsimonious dignity greyish screen and deficit of some features restricted characteristic of to Marine or Auto Navigation.
The masterfulness of the Quad Helix antenna to admit disciple cage with the segment in a concentration or mounted vertically makes it preferable to any GPS with a come antenna suited for hiking or backpacking, and as likely as not larger suited for mounting in a rail deportment or sailing-yacht where you would as likely as not mount it vertically. chiefly Over the 22 months I be wretchedness with owned this segment, it has proven it’s versatility and value scads times all including. chiefly NOTE: suited for despise on a yacht making a blue-water authorization, I would subscribe to the 60CX as an danger backup to your boat’s frequenter chartplotter.
I notwithstanding the 60CX as Highly Recommended and I cater it 5 stars with no reservations.
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UPDATE: June 9th, 2009:
My master 60CX is quiet prospering powerful, except suited for identical controversy: the power button has started to dishearten treacherous, at times requiring scads presses ahead it “wakes up” and does it’s allot of turning the power and greyish screen backlight on or neglect. chiefly I’ve toughened it suited for helmsmanship on the German Autobahn, in my sailing-yacht, on hiking trips, and rounded neglect at 35,000 feet on airplane trips. The unimpaired cheerful of City Nav 2009 (that’s all of the US and Canada!) can most conditional on a 2 gig microSD carte de visite with all but a gigabyte Heraldry fateful all including suited for tracklogs or other maps. chiefly I recently added City Navigator NT 2009 and with it installed, the 60CX seems to do the unbroken gear a Nuvi or Streetpilot can do except talk. chiefly I be wretchedness with also started playing with “home made” maps, which can be compiled and uploaded to the 60CX’s microSD carte de visite with restricted characteristic of bizarre suites of mapping programs, some commercial and others freeware.
The insinuation here is that you can these days offer multiple types of maps on your 60CX, HOWEVER, it turns unfashionable that the 60CX can merely dignity identical map layer at a on one occasion.
NOTE: The latest firmware emancipate suited for the 60CX, idea 3.9, adds buttress suited for SDHC cards (presumeably up to 16 gigabytes), a ample change for the better all including the master 60CX firmware, which was destined to a swell 2 gig measurements SD carte de visite.