Garmin eTrex® SE GPS Handheld Navigator, Extra Battery Life, Wireless Connectivity, Multi-GNSS Support, Sunlight Readable Screen

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.

Excellent GPS, fast satellite connection and perfect tracking.

I mean... it 'works'. But I don't like the interface. It automatically starts tracking when you turn it on, which is fine. But it doesn't automatically end the track when you turn it off. The first few times I forgot to stop the track when I stopped for the day. The next time I turned it on I had driven home and it added my house as the last position on the hiking track. I use this to track kayak trips. I also use the fitness app on my watch. The data between the two has been consistent. My watch has issues with occasionally stopping. I think a button is getting pushed while I paddle. It does work well for recording where I start my trips and then using it to get back to where I set up camp if I'm on a larger lake. Right now I just keep it on the pouch on the front of my life jacket. It will show average speed and pace for the entire trip on the app once you download the data. There is also a chart that does show your pace over time. You can use that to figure out your speed. It will also overlay the route on a map. Just remember to start and stop your trip at the right time and save it. And if you pause the tracking to take a break, restart it. I haven't used it yet to preplan a route and follow it. Mostly because I don't have a mount on my kayak where I can easily see the GPS while paddling. I kinda wish I spent the extra money on one of the ones with maps on it, but those are bigger and more expensive.

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 forever 2) the screen is fantastic in bright sunlight. In fact the brighter the sun the brighter the screen! 3) it's light 4) it's small and easy to carry 5) geocaching live works great to find the most nearby caches while in network range 6) seems durable and purported to be waterproof which is important while on the trails 7) 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 version 2) 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 it 3) 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

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.

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.

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.

I love this thing, I give it 5 stars because it’s not trying to be fancy and it works well. If you’re going out hunting or into the woods it’s great for tracking your every movement and the simplicity of adding markers and marking animal tracks and trees is so great! I feel safe with its extremely ridiculous battery life! Never going hunting without it again. Find your way back to your car with ease. Important- it does. It beep when your off track… I like this for my own reasons but some may not.

Zum Geocaching durch die Handyanbindung echt klasse und im Vergleich zu meinem Androidhandy sensationell genau.... manchmal steht man schon auf dem Cache wenn das Handy noch 6 m weiter anzeigt.... Ich hab es in den Black weeks geschossen und für den Preis klasse. Die ersten Batterien sind nach ca 20 Stunden Outdooreinsatz immer noch "randvoll" da hätte ich mein Handy 4-5 mal laden müssen....Ich benutze es als Pointsucher im Wald...

Het apparaat een week in gebruik gehad, maar de vele reboots en vastlopers waren voor mij niet acceptabel en gaat deze terug. Dit was ongeveer elke 1-2 uur een vastloper of een crash. Of ik heb het apparaat van de vorige reviewer ontvangen die ook al defect was, of garmin heeft last van instabiele hardware/software. Dan over het apparaat zelf. Deze heeft wel een scherm die zeer goed leesbaar is en voelt erg degelijk maar handzaam aan. Het menu en de bediening was ook vrij snel duidelijk. Ook fijn dat je via Garmin Explorer en Route You vrij snel een route voor de fiets kan uploaden via je telefoon. Je hebt geen kaart, maar alleen een lijn is ook best goed te doen. Voor geocaching zit het apparaat er ongeveer 3 meter naast wat best oke is, maar het digitale kompas wijst als je stil staat dan vaak wel totaal een andere kant op. Op zich best wel tevreden over de functies maar de instabiele hardware/software was wel een beetje te gek om dit fatsoenlijk te kunnen gebruiken. Daardoor 2 sterren ipv 4. Geen 5 sterren door het ontbreken van een (simpele) kaart en de hoge prijs.

I've been using this for over a year now, as a speedometer in the surfski - the batteries have lasted ages and the display is big and bright enough to see easily even in full sun.

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

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.