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

I use this to find old cemeteries in the woods. I am able to enter the coordinates recorded in the towns records and go out to get pictures of the cemetery and the headstones to record for future generations. This has been much easier since buying this Garmin. I'm still learning to use it, but so far its not difficult. The screen is easy to read no matter how bright it is outside, and I have had no issues with it freezing. I think naybe the users that had issues with this did not calibrate it before using it. I do recommend downloading the full manual for complete instructions and explainations of the settings. The one that comes with it is more of a quick start manual and not an indepth manual. I love it!

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.

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.

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.

Extremely disappointed in this device. We needed it to do one thing: Show the GPS coordinates of where we were at any given time. Documentation with the product and online proved useless. Device menus feel like something from the 1990's.

Bought this little thing and was unsure what it was. Got the app to go with it. Looks great, fits perfect in a pocket. The battery life is amazing. Very accurate, kept us from getting lost on one of our rides. And a great value. Super simple to use.

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.