Terrible. Poorly designed and poor user interface.
I don't write many reviews so this won't be pretty. But I had to chime in on my experience with this product. When I first installed the batteries it wouldn't turn on at all. I removed and re-seated the batteries and was finally able to get it to work. The compass doesn't work at all. It does show direction of travel arrow, but the other arrow that is supposed to be the electronic compass doesn't even work. It showed up a few times, wasn't accurate and then disappear. During a large part of my trip I had no signal at all and many times I was on top of a mountain. We had an old (7 years) GPS with us and it had a signal the whole time and worked much better. Most of the time the GPS showed us at least 650 feet of the trail when we were standing right on it.
I might have been doing something wrong (I have used GPS's on many trips so I am not a novice), but the user manual was terrible. It only explains the basics and doesn't even do that very well. The screen keeps...
Excellent GPS once you get passed the learning curve
Like some of the reviews about the Delorme PN-60w, I can see where one might get a negative impression, at first use, the GPS doesn't seem intuative .....I must admit at first I was not impressed with this GPS. In fact, I bought the PN-60w with the SPOT communicator in late 2010 and it sat in the box most of the time. Once I began a real effort to learn the software that came with the GPS and got use to the PN-60w user GPS Interface, this GPS sprung to life! It's very accurate and the data layering features are awesome. Plenty of RAM and SD memory to put limitless maps on PN-60w compared to Garmin. So many features so little time. The fact that Delorme seems to keep adding new features via firmware upgrades is impressive even after two years this GPS is still tops in it's class. As far as battery usage. I easily get several days of usage of this GPS constantly running! The only drawback so far.... Delorme please port your software to the Mac world..... Please. Sure you can use...
Not user friendly
For sale or gift to someone I do not like.
Problems for the user
Very difficult to download maps.
Screen way to small for use
Very clunky menus
No 12v power supply. I live in Alaska and you do not have access to 110 out in the boonies to recharge
Eats AA batteries for snack when the rechargeable runs down. Rechargeable good for about 8 hours on power saving mode
Map support for out of US and Canada impossible to figure out or afford
I have the 60w with the Spot connect. The spot works great but the interface with the 60W is worse than the map downloading nitemare.
Does anyone make a GPS for offroad and hiking that is easy to use with topo and road maps for a ATV & Truck that I can deal with
This is not a low cost GPS but very expensive.
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