Garmin International Incorporated, one unit of Garmin Ltd., the most renowned leader in satellite navigation, has recently announced its latest products, the Oregon 450t and Oregon 450 touchscreen GPS devices that come as additions to Garmin's next generation of outdoor handhelds. Also, both of them are compatible with the online community at Garmin Connect, and even Garmin's free Custom Maps
utility for transferring paper or digital maps onto your compatible handheld.
“More than ever, Garmin offers intuitive touchscreen options for anyone exploring and enjoying the world around them,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin’s vice president of worldwide sales. “Oregon 450t and Oregon 450 provide a bridge between the slimmed-down Dakota™ family and the top-of-line Oregon 550t, all of which work seamlessly with Garmin Custom Maps in planning your adventure and Garmin Connect for reliving the experience and sharing the memories.”
As we all know Garmin's design and build architecture, these two
are very responsive to the touch of our fingers, yet at the same time very resistant to harsh weather. The Oregon 450t and Oregon 450 come to provide a simplified navigation means, through the glove-friendly touchscreen interface (that should probably mean over-sized buttons in the touch interface).
With a mere weight of only 192.78 grams, both the Oregon 450t and Oregon 450 have a battery life span of up to 16 hours on two AA batteries. That alone is very nice, the fact these run on AA batteries, I mean, rather than some proprietary internal battery. Each of them packs a high-sensitivity GPS receiver with HotFix that automatically calculates and stores critical satellite information, in the built-in 850MB internal memory, or over the microSD memory card, that can also be used for photos and optional map data.
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