Garmin Colorado is official

The announcement made at CES on Jan. 3.
http://www8.garmin.com/ces/colorado/index.html

OLATHE, Kan./January 3, 2008/PR Newswire. Garmin International Inc., a
unit of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN), today introduced the Colorado
series of handheld GPS devices for outdoor, marine and fitness
enthusiasts. With the addition of Garmin’s revolutionary Rock ’n
Roller wheel, you really can operate its many features with just one
hand most with just one thumb. The deviceswere announced in
preparation for the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and
will be on display at the Garmin booth (#35832 in South 4).

Whether you’re climbing in the Rockies, fishing an unfamiliar river or
geocaching with your family, the Colorado brings your environment to
life in unprecedented detail, said Dan Bartel, Garmin’s vice president
of worldwide sales. And yet for having so many new features and
customizable options, the Colorado is remarkably easy to use with its
thumb-driven Rock ’n Roller wheel.

On land or at sea, you’ll never lose your way with Colorado’s
high-sensitivity GPS receiver, shaded-relief and satellite imagery
mapping and vibrant color 3-inch screen with high resolution. And the
Colorado plays well with others, allowing for wireless exchange of
tracks, waypoints and geocaches between units.

No matter your outdoor interests, there's a Colorado for you. The
Colorado 400t gives hikers state-of-the-art 3D elevation perspective
and preloaded U.S. topographic maps. The Colorado 400i offers anglers
shoreline details, depth contours and boat ramps for U.S. inland lakes
and navigable rivers. The Colorado 400c is your coastal companion,
providing chart coverage for the coastal U.S. and Bahamas. The
Colorado 300 features a worldwide basemap with shaded relief.

Colorado users will be the first to experience Wherigo, the newest
GPS-based activity from Groundspeak, the people who made geocaching a
worldwide phenomenon. Wherigo (pronounced "where I go") is a toolset
for creating and playing location-based multimedia experiences in the
real world. Using the Wherigo platform, Wherigo authors can build
exciting adventure games, historical tours or other innovative
activities. Wherigo players use the Colorado or other GPS device
running the Wherigo Player application to visit physical locations,
use virtual items, interact with virtual characters and solve real
world puzzles. Garmin and Groundspeak will host special events to
teach people more about Wherigo and let them experience it for
themselves. Also, a limited-edition geocoin has been minted to
commemorate the launch of Colorado and Wherigo. Details on the Wherigo
experience, events and geocoins can be found at www.garmin.blogs.com
and www.wherigo.com. And geocaching just got easier with the Colorado,
which quickly downloads online information for every cache, such as
location, terrain, difficulty, hints and description, so that you
don’t have tote printouts with you.

Garmin knows its users have many interests, so the Colorado lets you
customize five profiles automotive, marine, recreation, fitness or
paperless geocaching making the most beneficial features for each
activity the easiest to access through quick shortcuts. And every
outing with the Colorado can be enjoyed later by downloading and
sharing the data as one of nearly two million activities on Garmin
Connect (connect.garmin.com).

Weighing only 7.3 ounces with 15 hours of life from two AA batteries,
the Colorado is the perfect companion for any outing with its
electronic compass, barometric altimeter and photo viewer. The SD card
slot is ideal for loading additional MapSource detail. The Colorado
also displays air temperature as well as data from an optional
heart-rate monitor and/or speed and cadence sensor.

The Colorado 300 has a suggested retail price of $499. The Colorado
400t, Colorado 400i and Colorado 400c have a suggested retail price of
$599. For more about the Colorado and the other Garmin products
released at CES 2008, go to www.garmin.com and www.garmin.blogs.com.

On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:15:11 -0600, Roarmeister


This will be interesting to actually get in your hand - is this wheel
better or worse to control the screen?



Is this Bluetooth or Wi-fi? or some other technology? Please, let it
be wi-fi.



Further segmentation of the market began with the 60 vs 76 series.



Say what??? Something more I am going to have to read up on.



This will be a nice addition for the geocacher who must have
everything. Paperless caching has been achieved by other methods, we
will have to see how seemless and user friendly this turns out to be.



Slightly less than the 60/76 but also a lower battery life with each
generation of improvement. Did they add lithium batteries as an
option? The two axis compass - will this mean it will give you
direction capability while standing still - like a REAL compass?



Heart-rate monitor?? Is this for the fitness/jogger market? Gee,
wheres the MP3 and video player? Telephony? PDA? FMS/GPRS radio?
What more tech stuff do we need or add?



If the price includes the built-in maps which sell for $100+
separately then that's not such a bad price after all....

Roarmeister wrote:

You mean like the 76 series already do?



--
Steve
http://adirondackoutdoors.forumcircle.com

Steve Calvin wrote:

No, like the models with an "S" do (76S, 76CSx, 60CSx, etc.) and
the Vista models but not the 76, 76Cx, 60Cx, etc.

--
Dan
(Email: dan at domain below )
(www.gpsmap.net)

Dan Anderson wrote:
Sorry, I should have specified the "S" models. They're all
that I've owned so I just "assumed", and you know what that
means... :D

--
Steve