johnlt Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 If I were a king for a day, the perfect GPS for motorcycle use would be a 276C with better contrast (simple firmware change), accept 2 GB CF card and have a touch screen option. What else would you want? Link to comment
steve.foote Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 Realtime weather radar superimposed on map display. Link to comment
smiller Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 If I were a king for a day, the perfect GPS for motorcycle use would be a 276C with better contrast (simple firmware change), accept 2 GB CF card and have a touch screen option. With the improvement in the screen on the new 2720, that's almost what you have. No compactflash, but with all of City Navigator preloaded plus 750mb of extra space available for additional maps that should be plenty enough. Link to comment
steveknapp Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 Ya, I don't mind the contrast at all. I'd like the weather radar info. The huge track log is a big feature for me. I don't want to loose that. Link to comment
MattS Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 Realtime weather radar superimposed on map display. Whaddya mean, you've only got it in mile-square blocks? I want to know if it's raining within 300 feet! Or else it looks like a game of Tetris gone wrong. Link to comment
WestTX RT Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 Matt, Which unit is that a screen shot from? I started a thread a while back about the 396, and this looks like the version I'd like to see. The 396c looks like the nuts, but do you know what type of memory card it uses? Even the watered down version of weather info is still pricey @ $30 a month. Link to comment
steveknapp Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 The 376C's specs are on the Garmin website. Marine -> Chartplotters Link to comment
Pictou Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 With the improvement in the screen on the new 2720, that's almost what you have. No compactflash, but with all of City Navigator preloaded plus 750mb of extra space available for additional maps that should be plenty enough. The problem with the pre-loaded stuff is you have no desktop software. I personally would feel that my GPS was crippled if I couldn't do my route planning on the PC. I presume that with the pre-loaded models you could do this but you would have to incur the extra cost of buying the software (which means buying it twice really). That sucks in my book. Link to comment
BFish Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 i'm a very new owner of a 2610. had it about a week and still learning. had it on the moto last sat/sun for rides in midday bright florida sunshine and had no problem reading the screen. i can't beleive i waited so long to get it. great in the car as well. Link to comment
johnlt Posted July 20, 2005 Author Share Posted July 20, 2005 Unfortunately the 2720 additional 750 MB of memory space is restricted to .CSV files and not additional maps (like topo) which are .IMG files. re Brian's response to my contrast comment, I was refering to the 276C contrast. The 2610 contrast is great but at a much lower resolution. Link to comment
MattS Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 Unfortunately the 2720 additional 750 MB of memory space is restricted to .CSV files and not additional maps (like topo) which are .IMG files. Don't know about that ... this is the same flavor of available memory that was available to the tune of 250MB on the 2620. The CSVs would inhabit the waypoint memory space. Link to comment
johnlt Posted July 20, 2005 Author Share Posted July 20, 2005 Matt, I'm just going by what it says in the description of the 2720 on the Garmin website. Link to comment
MattS Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 John, you government guys are all the same -- strictly by the book! Spoke to a tech in Kansas yesterday -- this is some of what he said. Link to comment
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