Garmin gets official with the Oregon 200, 300, and 400 nav units

As expected, Garmin has gone official with their new Oregon 200, 300, and 400 nav units. To make things extra confusing, the Oregon 400 includes the 400c, 400t, and 400i. The outdoor-friendly PNDs are waterproof, feature high-sensitivity receivers, and sport 3-inch touchscreens. As for the various 400-series units, it's all about your outdoor poison. The 400c is for sea anglers with chart coverage for the coastal US and Bahamas, the 400i is for fresh-water fishers with depth contours and boat ramps for U.S. inland lakes and rivers, and the 400t if for you land-lubbers with preloaded US topographic maps in 3D. Meanwhile, the 300 features a worldwide basemap with shaded relief and the 200 provides just your basic basemap. The units weigh in at just 6.8 ounces, run on AA batteries, and support microSD cards. Pricing is set at $479.99 for the 200, $533.32 for the 300, and $639.99 for the 400.

[Thanks, Martin]

[Gingerbread Man @ Jul 10th 2008 11:10AM]

Garmins are the best!

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Jul 10th 2008 11:28AM]

PIE AND BACON FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Matt @ Jul 10th 2008 11:13AM]

Shouldn't that be a $522.32 for the 300 instead of $322.32?

[Matt @ Jul 10th 2008 11:15AM]

Shouldn't it be $522.32 insteand of $322.32?

[Matt @ Jul 10th 2008 11:16AM]

damn double posts... why can't my office upgrade our POS computers?

[plaid thermos @ Jul 10th 2008 11:43AM]

They can't afford to, productivity is unexplainable low...

[anonymouspimp @ Jul 10th 2008 11:53AM]

It's not your computer. This is a terrible comment system.

[engadget @ Jul 10th 2008 11:21AM]

These appear essentially be upgrades to the current Colorado line.

Which would be lovely, except Garmin still hasn't managed to fix the bugs in which the Colorado's rapidly start losing precision over the course of minutes and show you hundreds of yards, and in one case I saw, up to 1/2 mile from where you actually are. Then you reboot the GPS, and it magically fixes itself. Complaints about this are everywhere, and Garmin is pretty much just ignoring them all.

Not exactly what most people want in a GPS. It's sad when my almost 10-year-old Garmin GPS-III+ is more accurate than my week old Colorado 400t.

[nxtiak @ Jul 10th 2008 12:39PM]

Didn't the Colorado just come out?
I personally have the GPSMap 60csx, and prefer the look of it and the Colorado. This plain looking Oregon doesn't do it for me.

[giuliop @ Jul 10th 2008 11:33AM]

It's a known fact that Engadget editors are easily confused.

[azlaxkid42 @ Jul 10th 2008 12:03PM]

'does it work outside of oregon' comments: begin now!

[Interpol @ Jul 10th 2008 12:20PM]

$639.99? Maybe I can use one of these units to find out where all my money went!

[Jordo @ Jul 10th 2008 2:56PM]

Prices seem to be in order here, not sure where the ones in this post came from?

http://www.gpscity.com/topsearch-oreg/c=gps+receivers

[Steve @ Jul 10th 2008 2:44PM]

Garmin needs some serious competition, they are just pushing out overpriced rubbish these days.

Its time they dumped their tacky vector maps, it made sense when memory was expensive , but not any more. Give a a good ruggid unit with normal maps, eg OS for the UK, and they will be onto a winner, but these units are just gimmicks.

[Wolfticket @ Jul 10th 2008 2:46PM]

My Geko 301 is still damn good.
Base maps are for wusses.

[dodgerblues00 @ Jul 10th 2008 3:40PM]

It's beautiful!!



i sold my Garmin 60cx when i got the new Colorado 400 came out. Boy, was that a mistake. I sold them both, but wish I'd a kept my 60cx.


Hope this one works!

[russdogg @ Jul 10th 2008 3:51PM]

I'm assuming this is meant to play your own live version of Oregon Trail?

[fd @ Jul 10th 2008 9:19PM]

So, if you like to fish and hike you have to buy two of these?

And, you still can't use it for a daily driver GPS?

[Stephen @ Sep 21st 2008 8:06AM]

Garmin Oregon 400c

This is not a chart plotter. You can not arrange a series of points on a chart and connect them to a route. You can arrange a series of points then go to a list (without the benefit of a chart) and string together a route from the list.

Not what mariners want IMHO.

Big negative.