Garmin Oregon 450t
Garmin today has announced the Oregon 450 and 450t GPS handhelds. Fitting between the top-of-the-line Oregon 550t and Garmin’s older Dakota handheld GPS series, both the Oregon 450 and 450t have a 3-inch, glove-friendly, color touchscreen, a 3-axis compass, user-selected dashboards enabling owners to customize screen appearance, enhanced track navigation for hikers and cyclists, a barometric altimeter, paperless geocaching, and wireless data transfer with other Oregon, Fortrex, Dakota and Colorado GPS devices from Garmin.
Furthermore, both handhelds are compatible with Garmin Connect, the company’s online social community for sharing data, which in turn is exportable to Google Earth, Facebook and Twitter.
One of my favorite new features is Custom Maps. It lets Oregon, Colorado or Dakota owners transfer the details of both electronic and paper maps to their handhelds.
The Oregon 450 and 450t each weigh 6.8 ounces, have 850 MB of internal memory, a microSD slot for expandable space, and a high-speed USB port.
The Oregon 450t also includes preloaded 100K topographic maps of the United States complete with 3D elevation perspective, and coverage of highways, interstates, urban and rural roads, river, lakes and more.
Both the Oregon 450 and Oregon 450t appear to only be available directly from Garmin currently for $399.99 and $499.99, respectively.
Garmin Oregon 450
