eTrex® SE, GPS Handheld Navigator

It is very small GPS with an adequate view screen. The buttons, need to be pressed in the center, and are a bit stiff. It took a while to get used to the menus and buttons. Within a day of taking it out on a trail, It became easier to operate. Downloaded the manual from Garmin since the manual that comes with it is just a few pages.I paired it to a large screen phone. It works flawlessly with the phone. You get to see a nice trail map with elevation reading and all waypoints along the trail.The GPS lacks an elevation history page. The map on the GPS is really useless but the electronic compass works perfectly. Several other pages on the GPS give you ample information.This is a back-up for my other Garmin GPS... I found it small but extremely useful and accurate.Hooked it up to a phone at the end of the day and downloaded the information to my phones. The phone has a big nice map. Since I need to carry a phone, linking the two together is easy. If I need extra information I just bluetooth to my phone in seconds.For the cheapest GPS Available it a very good buy.

Now that I finally got it working it is awesome for geocaching when in network range.During the first week I owned this it would not give me the signin code to connect it to geocaching live. After a little over a week it suddenly worked! Now that it's working it is perfect for in network geocaching.1) the battery lasts forever2) the screen is fantastic in bright sunlight. In fact the brighter the sun the brighter the screen!3) it's light4) it's small and easy to carry5) geocaching live works great to find the most nearby caches while in network range6) seems durable and purported to be waterproof which is important while on the trails7) has USB C connector!!! Woohoo!Cons:1) kind of wonky screen choices to get to the next cache. Clicky clacking around gets annoying. Maybe I can customize. I hope I can figure out how to customize this. Maybe Garmin will fix this nonsense in their next version2) need to take the back cover off to access the USB port. But this would help keep it waterproof and keep dust and dirt out of the port so I can live with it3) it complains about more than 1000 downloaded caches. Why oh why can't I just buy some more memory and let me store 4000 caches on it? What is the big deal Garmin? Just make it happen.I only try to get 1 cache per day so I can live with the wonkiness given the other features. Last time I grabbed some hiking caches with my family I almost exclusively used the SE and only pulled out my phone to look at the high quality trail map

This GPS receiver is pretty obviously aimed at a subset of the usual customer community, so you'll want to make sure you know what it can / can't do before jumping at its great price.You do not get a color screen, or fancy graphics that you'd get with a $300+ unit, or even on your smart phone.What you do get is a pocketable GPS with super-long battery life (far better than any phone's), support for all existing navigation networks (GPS and Galileo and Glonass -- at the cost of reduced battery lifetime), and some broadly-useful core functions. It's great for old-school (pre-smartphone) geocaching, or orienteering, or hiking.My only real complaints so far (having just received the unit) are with the user interface / documentation. The menu system is classic Garmin, a bit "clunky." Digging through the manual isn't much better, since the unit and its manual both use... unique... terms for some things, and they're not explicitly defined anywhere.I bought the unit primarily for geotagging photos -- I need it to record a log of my path that I can later save to a GPX file. As far as my interface to the eTrex SE, this means I most often want to turn on / turn off logging and then save the data -- but doing this takes a relatively deep dive in the menus. Deeper than I'd like it to be, at any rate.I'll update this review after I put some miles on this gadget (and so can speak semi-intelligently to its actual battery life and accuracy), in the meantime, here are some terms to know as you start using the device or perusing its manual:Activity -- a recorded GPS track. You can have the device start recording automatically based on your motion, or do it manually (with some effort). You'll need to dive into the menus to end the activity / save a file in either case, so you might as well get used to this path.Course -- a pre-defined path you would subsequently like to follow. A course is defined by a series of "Locations," also called "Course Points" by the device / manual (most folks would probably call them "waypoints").Expedition Mode -- a low-power mode to extend battery life. Bluetooth is turned off, your track is recorded less often.

Very good for geocaching and using as a bicycling computer/trip logger. This is only single-band but stays around 10ft accuracy even under heavy tree cover. Battery life with lithium AAs about 3-5 weeks with around 5 hours usage per day. Display is very readable in direct sunlight and very crisp contrast

Perfect for my use with grid coordinates. Functionality is spot on.

The unit worked fine, then went flat stone cold dead after 3 months. I used it at least a dozen times up to then. Not a dead battery problem. Not a reboot issue. Dead. Amazon's return period is limited to 1 month. Cost me about ten bucks each time I used it. Use a topo map.

It would not stay on. Something in the battery compartment. Push a few buttons and would shut off.What little use I was able to get out of it was fine. It's a simple gps with breadcrumb features, great for getting back to where you were not so good for getting you were you haven't been.Screen is nice and clear, battery life should be as stated. If It had worked I might have kept.

One of the great tragedies of technology is we miss the moment when something becomes so refined you don’t have to think about it anymore. I needed a better device to create GPX logs that would work even at the ends of the earth. This is that device. I got the eTrex non-solar and even on AAs, it will track you for days. Durable and dependable as Garmin can make, their more complicated devices (Montana) are prone to weird crashes that at best I have isolated to Bluetooth/wifi. eTrex seems immune because there isn’t as much functionality to try to communicate to phone with as often. Additionally if you’re just trying to make GPX files, you don’t really want a barometer, especially over longer distances, since they get out of sync (especially when going over the mountains to or from the desert in Southern California) So like I mentioned above, I clipped the eTrex to my backpack and just don’t think about it. I don’t need to. It just works for what i need it to do.

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El Garmin eTrex SE es un GPS sólido y confiable que ofrece una excelente duración de la batería, una pantalla clara y fácil de leer, y es perfecto para aquellos que se inician en el uso de dispositivos GPS. Su capacidad para sincronizarse con el móvil lo convierte en un complemento perfecto para cualquier aventura al aire libre. Estoy completamente satisfecho con mi compra y lo recomendaría sin dudarlo a cualquier persona que esté buscando un GPS confiable y fácil de usar para sus actividades al aire libre.

Produto travou devido a versao do software, que foi corrigido com atualização.

Super une fois qu'on s'y retrouve

Me da mucha tranquilidad traer este aparato. Tengo menos de un año haciendo senderismo en un grupo pequeño y no tenemos a alguien con experiencia que nos acompañe como guía. Gracias a este dispositivo nos hemos atrevido a explorar rutas remotas e ir a explorar lugares desconocidos (para nosotros). Antes usaba solo la App de Wikiloc, con el problema de que el GPS gasta muy rápido la batería de mi celular, además de que en verano calienta mucho el aparato. Una vez que se nos hizo de noche nos quedamos sin baterías en los teléfonos (los habíamos usado todo el día para tomar fotos y video) y terminamos atrapados en la oscuridad en un laberinto de nopaleras. Luego de esa experiencia, decidí buscar un dispositivo GPS independient a mi celular y encontré este modelo.Los pros: La batería le dura días, eso me da tranquilidad de que siempre podré encontrar el camino de regreso. Es robusto, contra agua, y fácil de leer en el camino. Pasar una ruta de Wikiloc al GPS es un proceso de dos pasos, pero sencillo y rápido (de Wikiloc la mandas como archivo a la App de Garmin Explore y luego la sincronizas con el GPS). La App de Garmin Explore es robusta y puedo compartir mi ubicación en tiempo real con mis familiares en casa sin que el teléfono gaste pila extra por usar el GPS (se conecta al eTrex por Bluthoot, lo cual sí consume batería pero no como si estuviera usando el GPS en el teléfono). Aunque la pantalla del eTrex no muestra detalles topográficos del mapa, si se usa en conjunto con la App del celular llega a ser tan buena como los otros modelos más caros.Los contras: No es un dispositivo económico, aunque sea de los más baratos de esta línea. Su interfase no se parece a nada conocido, por lo que hay una larga curva de aprendizaje. No hay muchos videos en YouTube que expliquen cómo funciona este modelo (tal vez yo debería hacer uno) así que en una búsqueda rápida no vas a encontrar nada que te saque de dudas, sin embargo otros dispositivos Garmin llevan la misma lógica en su sistema operativo, así que viendo tutoriales de otros modelos pude entender cómo se usa y para qué sirven todas las funciones.Conclusión: Aunque la curva de aprendizaje es complicada para sacarle el máximo provecho, desde la primera vez me sirvió para el propósito que lo compré, que es ir tranquilo a los senderos que no conozco. Aunque es grande y pesado, sería igual de pesado llevar un powerbank grande para estar recargando la batería de mi celular. Quizá no sea la opción para todo el mundo, pero si estás en una situación similar a la mía y no quieres depender de otras personas para ir a explorar nuevas rutas, sí te lo recomiendo.