Garmin Expands Oregon Range

Garmin has expanded it's extensive range of OS mapping-compatible range of Oregon touchscreen GPS units with two new additions, the Oregon 450 and Oregon 450t.

The new units have 'next generation touchscreen technology, with a bright 3” colour display, which is perfect for use in all conditions', says Garmin, they're also waterproof and designed to be glove friendly.

Brand new for the 450 and 450t is the Garmin Custom Maps feature which allows you to 'display any to-scale printed or electronic maps directly on your device'. In other words, you can take an existing printed or electronic map and convert it into a downloadable map for your Garmin using  either PC or Mac.

Andrew Silver Outdoor Product Manager for Garmin says: “The Oregon 450 and Oregon 450t offer fast, seamless map redraw and unprecedented mapping versatility for the ultimate in outdoors navigation.

“The new customisable dashboard along with a super bright display, bring together all the elements that are important for all of your adventures and activities.”

Customisable Dashboard?

Dashboards are now 'user definable' so you can customise the information viewed on various screens to show exactly what you find useful, so, for example, you could place compass data on the map page.

'Enhanced track navigation' sounds interesting too. When following an active track, the user will see the changes in elevation ahead of them as well as where they’ve been. Waypoints and other key locations along the active route – such as start, end, high and low elevation points – now appear on the map and active route pages.

The Oregon 450 and Oregon 450t last up to 16 hours on two AA batteries. Each device has a high-sensitivity GPS receiver with HotFixTM to quickly calculate position. The new Oregon models have 500 MB of internal memory and a microSD™ card for optional data, you can store up to 2,000 waypoints, 200 routes, 5,000 caches and a tracklog of up to 10,000 points and 200 saved tracks.

More details at www.garmin.co.uk