How to Choose the Right GPS Unit For Your Needs – GPS Units Buying Guide

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Portable GPS units can lead you through unfamiliar areas, suggest an different way around rush hour traffic, and perform an increasing array of infotainment functions. This GPS purchase guide will help you to find the right GPS units for all your needs.

All the models of the series come with many features. Actually, I can’t think of any more really useful features. Here’s a complete list, with some description:

Electronic compass
This is a very useful tool. Most GPS devices can only determine your direction while you’re moving. A digital compass however, will always show your direction with pinpoint (2 degrees) accuracy.

Barometric altimeter
This shows your altitude wherever you are, with 3 feet accuracy. Another important function for hikers.

Wireless unit-to-unit transfer
Now this is a feature I’ve been looking for a long time. You can share trails, waypoints, caches and other information with your travel mates very easily, if they also have Oregon GPS units. No cables or SD cards needed. Be aware that the Oregon 200 doesn’t support this feature.

Other features include:
Custom points of interest, picture viewer, hunting and fishing calendar, geocaching mode, area calculation and many more. Garmin Oregon is the swiss army knife of handheld GPS systems.

There are three different models in the series:

Oregon 200
This is the basic model for a list price of 450 dollars. It lacks some of the features (wireless unit-to-unit transfer, digital compass, altimeter) and has only 24 MB of memory. I don’t recommend this one, because the additional price of a microSD card (you’re gonna need one, 24 megs isn’t enough for anything) will make it cost almost as much as the next model, the Oregon 300. Also, it doesn’t have some of the important features I mentioned.

Oregon 300
The next step, with all the features and 850 megabytes of memory. It costs only 50 bucks more than the Oregon 200, making this the best handheld GPS unit in this price range.

The last device we’ll discuss is a GPS tracking device. Much like in the movies these devices use the GPS satellite system to track objects to which they are attached. Many newer cars use these in the case they are stolen they can be quickly tracked and found. You can also find small GPS tracking units on certain cell phones, which can come in handy for the parents of teenagers

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