Garmin Colorado 400t Handheld GPS Unit with U.S. Topographic Preloaded Maps Description:
With the state-of-the-art 3D elevation perspective and preloaded topographic map data of the U.S., the rugged Colorado 400t is the perfect companion for your outdoor adventures. It gives you all the tools you need for serious climbing, hiking or hunting.
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2878 in Consumer Electronics
- Size: Garmin Part #010-00622-45
- Brand: Garmin
- Model: 010-00622-45
- Format: CD
- Dimensions: 5.50″ h x 2.40″ w x 1.40″ l, 2.00 pounds
- Native resolution: 240×400
- Display size: 3
Features
- High Sensitivity, WAAS-Enabled GPS Receiver
- Features A 2.55-InchH X 1.53-InchW, Transflective Color Tft Display With 240 X 400 Pixel Resolution
- Features Built-In Worldwide Basemap With Shaded Relief
- Wireless Sharing Of User Tracks, Waypoints, Routes & Geocaches Between Units
- 5 User Profiles - Automotive, Marine, Recreation, Fitness Or Geocache
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful for the Amateur
I’m not one of those extreme high-end geocachers. I just love a walk in the woods. However, I want to find the cache when I go to look for it. Last year I upgraded from a Garmin Explorer to a 60CSX and was in love. Unfortunately that got stolen. I’ve saved my money and now have the Colorado 400t. It’s everything my 60CSX was and more. The new rocker control is a lot easier to use than the controls on the 60CSX or the Explorer. The accuracy is fantastic. With the City maps plugged in the road navigation is wonderful. This really is the best GPS unit I’ve used for hiking & caching. I’m really impressed with the ability to swap between profiles, using the Automotive until I hit the trail and then switching back to the Geocaching mode. Start up time & satellite acquisition are good. They’re now supporting SD instead of the mini-SD cards and that’s a good choice on Garmin’s part. A lot of the new interfaces are improved over the old ones plus, like the old ones they’re customizable.
Like everyone else, the fact that only one cache at a time is visible is a pain, but all the other features quickly wash that away. I haven’t found the maps to be inaccurate, but then I mainly use it for off-road hiking and the hills, mountains & streams are pretty solidly in place, even in Massachusetts. It is a little dim in bright sunlight.
Despite these small shortcomings, this is a wonderful GPS unit. I intend to get years of use (and hang on to it more tightly).
UPDATE: Garmin released a software patch that fixed the problem with displaying multiple cache’s. That’s one less of the few and small negatives to worry about. I’m still loving this GPS unit.
Fantastic, but not perfect.
I bought this item with the understanding it had flaws. It is a new line, and it is a big step to take. Almost like moving from Windows 98 to Windows XP. It takes a lot of getting used to, and it is cumbersome to set up. I spent over 3 hours backing up the maps that come on the unit (not viewable on the PC, but do back it up because if lost they are not recoverable), customizing the “profiles,” and rearranging the shortcuts to an actual usable rotation.
The unit runs off of shortcuts, rather than buttons on the front of the unit (like to 60C series). One button pulls up a menu of options to scroll through. You can change profiles to bring up different sets of shortcuts and settings.
I.e. I start in Automotive, which has a map viewed form above, with on-road auto-nav to a location near a geocache. Once I find a parking spot, I press the shortcuts button, and change to “geocaching” profile. It automatically switches to 3d topographical, “off-road” map that I follow to the cache. When I get close I shortcut to the option of compass o get right to it.
I have not had the bad experience of draining batteries. I accidentally left it on the first night after using it, and even after caching with the backlight periodically on, it still had bars left on the gauge the next morning.
Accuracy is not an issue (it is quite phenominal, 7-10ft 90% of the time) and I get full strength GPS signal inside the middle of my house (never ever got that with my 60CS).
The basemap roads are off significantly, but since I purchased the city-nav software with the unit, I only had to deal with the basemap for the ride home from where I bought it :). 80ft accuracy on the topography mapping is not so hot when driving (which side of the knoll am I on?), but when hiking it is more than accurate enough with the path tracking turned on (if 80ft off gets you lost while hiking, you probably shouldn’t be hiking off the path).
The geocaching options are fabulous, being able to view the full name, description, previous logs, and an option to view the hint is great.
My only complaints are that geocaches don’t show on the maps (only waypoints do). You can’t edit/delete/mark-as-found geocaches at all. The marketing for this unit is a complete lie when they say “bright display even in the sunlight”. Truth be told, on a sunny day like today, even in the shade, with the backlight fully on, it is hard to see the details on the screen. Also, only certain mini-usb chargers will charge the unit. The one I use to charge my cell phone puts the unit into “computer linking” mode rather than as a power supply (rendering it unusable as a GPS). Other phone charges work fine for some reason, there must be a difference between Type-A mini USB and Type-B mini USB that the unit is sensitive too, while most cell phones and the like are not.
Overall with the 400t, city nav 2008, the dash mount (60cs version doesn’t fit), new car charger and protective case, it came to a ridiculously high cost, but understand this: I would buy it again. If you do so, just remember that the effort you put into setting it up to fit your needs makes a huge difference. Take the time to learn it inside and out and you will experience how the complexity of it turns into versatility and enjoyment.
Accuracy unreliable
This would be a fantastic unit if the accuracy was there. The Geocaching functionality is great, the 3D topo maps are beautiful for a base map, and the unit is fun to use. Compared to Garmin’s star product, the Garmin GPSMap 60CSx 2.6-Inch Mapping Handheld GPS, it’s a little harder to figure out how to do various things such as enter a route, and figure out the distance between two points. I would have kept the unit if only it were accurate. I had trouble finding a cache and noticed the location of the cache kept bouncing all over the place. I started to test the unit by taking a reading and checking it against Google Earth and Nat Geo Topo! software, as well as another GPSr. It was off by as much as 400 ft, and only as close as 40 ft. I also tested it with a few known benchmarks. At that point I did some research to determine if there was some calibration I could do to solve the problem, and found that other people have experienced the same problem. Several people reported it as a recurring problem cured by a power reset. My guess is the new chip Garmin put into the Colorado is not as reliable as the SiRF Star III chip used in the past. If that is the case, an update will not cure the problem. I personally want a unit I can rely on and needed to purchase now, so I exchanged it for the well regarded but older Garmin 60CSx, which contains the trusted SiRF Star III chip. If you really want the new features and can hold off buying, I recommend you wait until the accuracy has been tested by consumers for a longer period of time. If you don’t mind an occasional reset, and having to guess if your unit is giving you accurate readings or not, this is a good GPSr.
Amazon.com Product Description–January 21, 2008
Amazon.com Product Description–January 21, 2008 This rugged, advanced handheld is packed with detailed topographicmaps for all your hiking adventures not to mention 3-D map view, a high-sensitivity receiver, barometric altimeter, electronic compass, SD card slot, picture viewer and color display. Exchange tracks, waypoints, routes and geocaches wirelessly between similar units. Slim, lightweight and waterproof, Colorado is the perfect companion for all your outdoor pursuits.
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Share Wirelessly
With Colorado 300 you can share your waypoints, tracks, routes and geocaches wirelessly with other Colorado users. Now you can send your favorite hike to your buddy to enjoy or the location of a cache to find. Sharing data is easy. Just select “send” to transfer your information to other Colorado units.
Keep Your Fix
With its high-sensitivity, WAAS-enabled GPS receiver, Colorado 300 locates your position quickly and precisely and maintains its GPS location even in heavy cover and deep canyons. The advantage is clear — whether you’re in deep woods or just near tall buildings and trees, you can count on Colorado to help you find your way when you need it the most.
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Colorado’s preloaded U.S. topographic maps, 3-D map view and a built-in worldwide basemap with shaded relief give you all the tools for serious climbing or hiking. Map detail includes national, state and local parks and forests, along with terrain contours, elevation information, trails, rivers, lakes and points of interest.
Just in case you’re wondering how steep that hill really is, Colorado’s 3-D map view helps you visualize your surroundings — giving you a better perspective of the elevation. |
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The Colorado also accepts SD cards, so you can use Garmin preprogrammed SD cards to add maps that serve any and all of your outdoor activities on land or water. Just take your pick from a wide selection, including street maps, topographic maps, coastal charts or inland lake data. The card slot is located inside the waterproof battery compartment, so you don’t have to worry about getting it wet. |
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Colorado’s innovative Rock ‘n Roller input wheel for easy one-handed operation and intuitive screen interface make it as easy to navigate the device as the outdoors.
Customize Colorado’s interface based on your favorite activity.
Even show off photos of your excursions with its picture viewer. |
Experience Paperless Geocaching
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Colorado supports Geocaching.com GPX files for downloading geocaches and detail straight to your unit. You’ll have at-a-glance cache descriptions and details to aid in your search. |
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Colorado has a built-in electronic compass that provides bearing information even while you’re standing still.
Its barometric altimeter tracks changes in pressure to pinpoint your precise altitude. View elevation data before you begin your ascent or descent. You can even use the altimeter to plot barometric pressure over time, which can help you keep an eye on changing weather conditions. |
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When I visited South America on my fill extended traipse a couple of years ago, I was amazed how many times I saw pictures of Che Guevara everywhere I went….cafes, outdoor bulletin boards, art galleries, even department stores. Now I understand why. Having unprejudiced read his diary, I was greatly anticipating this film, and my interest only heightened when I started seeing the travelogue shots in the previews. I am gay to recount the film surpasses my expectations on almost every level. It is aesthetic - perceptively directed, beautifully photographed and wondrously acted by a cast headed by two charismatic actors who tap deep into the hearts and souls of their characters. Whereas the book is more observational, the movie provides a more enchanting feeling in its portrait of a young man on the brink of his political awakening. It starts out somewhat deceptively as a comical buddy recount with the young Ernesto Guevara (pre-Che), a medical student, leaving his family and accompanying his seemingly more worldly pal Alberto Granado, a biochemist, on a feeble 1939 Norton motorbike traversing South America from their native Buenos Aires to Caracas. It is definite what Alberto’s hormonally charged intentions are on this months-long coast, but at 23, Ernesto is at a more sensitive juncture in his life where his encounters and observations have a deeper impact on his ideology.
What I really like about the film is how it changes in tone and texture as the boys’ hunt for adventure evolves into life-changing experiences for both of them. The motorbike acts as a metaphor for this change, as it unsurprisingly breaks down forcing them to begin their eyes to the poverty and composed struggle of the local people in each of the countries they visit. The account winds through frigid Patagonia, the blistering Atacama Desert, the awe-inspiring Machu Picchu and several towns in between. But the most touching passage takes status at the San Pablo leper colony in the Peruvian Amazon basin, where Ernesto bonds deeply with the lepers to the chagrin of the local nuns. His night swim across the Amazon, struggling for air through his asthma, is a much scene among many in this subtly potent film.
As he proved with his incredible “Central Location”, director Walter Salles has an acute ability to connect his characters to their settings in deeply emotional ways. He is the ideal choice to guide this road movie. As Guevara, Gael Garcia Bernal transcends his Tiger Beat, teen heartthrob looks and delivers a deeply touching performance, as he grows from a substantial city innocent to a skittish young man ready to purchase on a greater cause than his medical career. He does an especially strong job in conveying his character’s unblinking honesty and displaying unexpected acts of rage and compassion. Unprejudiced as ample is Rodrigo de la Serna in his feature film debut as Granado, effortlessly showing his character’s bravado and humor while finding his absorb bumpy scheme in the world. His reactions to his buddy’s political declaration at the birthday party, and to his occupy feelings during their goodbye at the extinguish, are among the most poignant moments in the movie. In fact, worthy of the film’s power comes from their palpable chemistry and unforced rapport. They are instantly and completely believable as best friends. And powerful more than the book, the film builds a solid emotional bridge between the young innocent and the Communist revolutionary Guevara was to become. If you are not aware of his fate, it is briefly summarized in subtitles at the ruin, and the coda with the staunch Granado is curious. While this may be the most pretty portrayal of a Communist-in-the-making since Warren Beatty’s film about John Reed, “Reds”, don’t let that discontinuance you from seeing this mesmerizing work. This is a wonderfully heartfelt film.
**ADDENDUM ABOUT THE DVD RELEASE POSTED ON FEBRUARY 18, 2005**
There are three extended deleted scenes included in the DVD package, none significant but smooth critical for the additional context they provide to an essentially episodic movie. I particularly liked the sequence with the blind truck driver risking the lives of the two vagabonds as he swerves perilously on a treacherous mountain road. The obligatory making-of documentary is superior, and includes comments from Salles, screenwriter Jose Rivera and executive producer Robert Redford. There are also a couple of brief Spanish-language TV interviews with Bernal and a rapidly interview with the film’s composer, Gustavo Santaolalla.
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