Garmin Oregon 700 Handheld GPS (Renewed)

I got this for Geocaching, works great! Battery could be better, so get a re-chargeable battery kit, but in terms of functionality, fit and build quality it's great. I took this out on a hike recently and was able to pick up on several geo caches in the area, this thing was definitely more accurate than my phone.

Great GPS and looks brand new, no damage. It came with a really basic map so you’ll have to buy a new map from Garmin. The map was 99 dollars. And you’ll need to install a micro SD card no bigger than 32 gigs. The unit won’t read anything larger.

Great unit. Used primarily for geocaching and moderate hiking it fullfills my needs. Battery life is on par with other units. Three minor pieces of criticism- first, the unit has a firmware issue with CHIRP functionality. With CHIRP on, the unit will power off on it's own within a minute of power on- was this a deal breaker? No, but I would've expected a but better due diligence on the R&D department and or some reasonable beta testing to find issues such as this. In my area, I don't believe I've ever ran across a chirp cache. However, this is a feature that I paid for and I'd like to see it work. Second issue is with the screen dim/timeout. The unit should be visible in my opinion during daylight hours and the backlighting should be for night. However, in order to see the screen, you need to have the backlighting on in full daylight. Again, not a deal breaker, but when caching you really need to use the screen quite a bit more then if you are hiking. I haven't done any testing on how this affects battery life, though I would suspect it would.Lastly I wish Garmin had been a bit more upfront over the useage of this unit while caching. It's designed to work in tandem with a smart phone, similar to a smart watch. It doesn't replace the phone while caching and doesn't function well as a standalone unit in this role. You pretty much need to have a fully chewed phone with WiFi tethering and Bluetooth on to take advantage of the Geo capabilities at their fullest. If these little headaches don't bother you, then I recommend this unit. It has a great UI and don't want look like a kids toy in the interface like the cheaper units. Easy to update, easy to use, and easy to upload maps to.

I was trying to do some survey work on land I purchased in NC. I found a property boundary rebar. When I circled around back to the same mark that I marked with a waypoint on the GPS it had me wondering from 25' to 45' from the very same position I marked with the GPS. What a waste of money and time. Your phone fixes a better position. As a yacht Captain where accuracy is very important, this is crap! I have never been so disappointed in a purchase in years!

Great little handheld gps unit. Compact easy to read screen. Does take a minute to figure out the menu system and eats batteries pretty fast. But other than those 2 issues it's been a great little unit so far, I haven't had it very long but I am very pleased with it as of now 01/12/22.

The Garmin Oregon 700 was not as good as I hoped it would be. Battery life was much shorter than advertised. The screen was hard to see outdoors in the sun (hey where else are going to be using it?). It was kind of a pain to navigate through the menus. The on/off button was not good IMHO, no click or anything when you press it to turn the thing on, you just have to hope you got it right. Then press it hard and hold firmly for a few seconds until it makes a two tiny little beep sounds to turn it off. Couldn't get a satellite signal from inside my house, would display a message "searching for satellites - do you wish to continue?" That was with both GPS and GLONASS switched on. Didn't come with detailed maps, you have to buy those separately or hope you can download them for free from somewhere. Note that I'm speaking in the past tense about the Garmin. That's because I returned it. I'm going to give ONX Offroad a try on my iPhone, it looks very promising.

Wanted to upgrade a handheld unit that I had for ages. The company was basically non-existent in the US anymore so support was lacking. Went with this unit after much deliberation. I use it primarily for geocaching and it does a great job, plus the geocaching live is a great feature. Unit looked brand new when it arrived and performs great.

This may be a good unit, but it is impossible to figure out how to use from the included manual. The online manual isn't much better. The online programs aren't better, either. I had to call tech support and talk to a human being to learn how to do things like saving a track to a file on a computer, starting and stopping recording a track, which of two cables to use for what functions (data transfer v. battery charging). I had to take voluminous notes and still don't have much understanding. I would not buy this unit again.