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The 60csx allowed you to modify the color and thickness of your track lines. Its like looking at a map and only being able to see one road and no alternatives if you want to go a different way.Also, while the color and thickness doesn't sound like much of an issue, the current tracks shows as a thin black line, which is similar to all of the other thin black lines on the map.
With the 60csx, you could adjust both.Finally, there is no cover available to protect this product. The prior track is a huge thick line , much thicker than it needs to be.
The 60csx allowed you to view multiple saved trails at a time. with the Colorado, you can only see one prior saved track.
If this product was not $500.00 and these items did not exist in prior versions, I would not care nearly as much. This does not.
This does notSo if you are going to a place that you have explored differently, with the 60csx you could see all of your prior tracks like a trail map.
The topo map shows streets but it will only map a route without the SD card as the crow flies. even though the altimeter was difficult to calibrate and inaccurate initially it did work eventually.the manual was less than helpful. Please note that you must get the city navigator SD card if you want to map a route on the road. I purchased this item as gift for my husband and he was so dissapointed in the performance of the software that we sent it back after 1 week. If you do not have lots patience for randomly thumbing through the on screen menu's to try and operate the unit coupled with a innate ability to be computer savy, then save your money. The unit maps only as the crow flies, which can be done with a paper map, which by the way never freezes up and stops working.However on a positive note, the construction of the unit seemed pretty durable, of coarse with it freezing up we didn't much bother having it out where it could get dropped. It is not possible to map trails in advance or get estimation of the distance to be traveled. The GPS location was accurate and fairly quick when not frozen up.
It has things I don't need but I am really enjoying it.I use it to track my walking.
I am very happy with this unit and now take it everywhere. It picked my location while I was sitting in an aisle seat, kept track of flight, and showed plane airspeed. Lastly when I was flying from Florida to New Jersey I figured I would try device to see what it found.
It is nice, feels good and does not look cheap. It did not lose reception anywhere, even when in building 'canyons'. I am amazed at the new Garmin Colorado 400T.
Another interesting part is that when on the train to New York it kept reception at all times unless I was in tunnel before the city. It is interesting to know where you are all of the time. I use regular batteries and it has a long enough life for one day being full on, and display at maximum brightness.
Is is not 100% accurate as when I was walking in New York city my path (trail) was not marked by a straight line, but instead with curvy lines that followed the streets I walked on.
I even get a signal inside the house. This is an awesome gps unit. Works very well.
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