The new Garmin GPS/FRS radios

[OC]

http://www.garmin.com/products/rino120/

The Rino 120 is state-of-the-art GPS navigation and two-way communications combined, with enough memory to download detailed mapping for driving, hiking, hunting, fishing—or just about anything else you can dream up.

It's waterproof and can "beam" your exact location to another Rino user within a two-mile range (on the FRS spectrum) using "Position Reporting". The radio functionality of the Rino 120 provides two-way communications for up to two miles (using FRS channels), and you can talk to friends or family who own conventional FRS radios. There's also a voice scrambler and a vibration mode for silent calls.

The Rino 120 has a built-in basemap consisting of American road and highway detail, along with 8 MB of internal memory for downloading additional road, street, and points-of-interest data from MapSource™ MetroGuide™, Fishing Hot Spots™, Topo, or BlueChart™ CD-ROMs. The PC-interface cable also comes with the Rino 120.

I like the "beaming" feature. It'd be just the thing for GPS newbies like me.

-OC

[Burzhui]

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