The errors described - again in the reviews - have already taken my little anticipation. Nevertheless for me the Oregon 650 was the only real alternative in order to cover the needs so, as I have them. After about a week now my review:
Hardware
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The hardware deserves four stars. In particular, the display is responsible for ensuring that there is not the maximum. One can live very well with the resolution, in this day and age this is, however, not really up to date. A force, however, is the sunlight readability. Here you have a Outdoornavi accurately points and it does. After Montana we now have a real touch, as we know it also from smartphones. The reaction is prompt and the touches accurately. The weight is at the upper limit. However, it is very comfortable to hold. Compared to my predecessor, Montana, Oregon is the naturally smaller, more manageable and less severe. The battery pack seems to me a bit cheap, but does its purpose and the Oregon 650 you for a little extra cost or some get more equipment. In addition to the battery pack and charger there is also a built-in camera that makes no outstanding but useful photos. Very good is the feel. The hardware buttons are very well laid out and have a perfect pressure point. Is perfect, that there are two new buttons and you can prove this with at least two additional commands. This feature is worth gold.
Battery life
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This is acceptable to the battery. The batteries I have not tested them. Several hours can be operated without additional Navi juice. But it is important that as far as possible the Bilschirmhelligkeit screwed down and can dim the display after 15 or 30 seconds. Less ideal I find - compared to Montana - that the battery level indicator is not displayed as a percentage, but only in four stages.
Navigation - Routing
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As we still doktert with a Garmin device, even after months of introduction to the same problems around. The piece is ailing with phenomena like "Drifting" and "cycles". This is probably due to that Garmin always tries to produce a panacea. It just needs to serve both for hikers, geocachers, bikers and amateur surveyors of all kinds. They all have different needs. However, it is beyond me why not created for all profiles, where the navigation behavior is then consistent. Several users report depending on the software version on new or old phenomena. Very well known is the named Drifting or county Laufen. So if you are traveling by bike and promptly stops, then the DRO continues in the old direction, until the machine realizes it is even now still. Then the circle comes running to the train. The Oregon begins with a zero, not a little relevant geocaching to zero circular to rotate until it is - if at all - really settles. We are not talking about dozens of meters, but it is noticeable.
Who wants to use the device for surveying or recording exact tracks, here is probably not ideal served. However, to geocaching or simple positioning while hiking, it is well suited, more on that later.
Geocaching
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Finally one of my main motivations why I bought the Oregon 650. Not too small, yet not too large - together with the easy to read display that Oregon is for me the best there is at the moment. Ideal is also that you can save multiple profiles and easily. So I have a profile that displays a route on the road to the destination point. Then in the box I can navigate by Beeline to zero. The software offers many adjustment possibilities and I have mentioned additional commands for hardware buttons are perfectly usable for my purposes. From the Internet, there are alternative icons with which you can display still coherent and meaningful Geocaching icons. Space for geocaches and waypoints of the Oregon has enough. Intuitively, one can durchhangeln by descriptions, logs, and hints of geocaches and search with filters. The integrated camera shoots high-resolution images that will come with a geotag. The quality is not comparable to the best smartphones. For a few snapshots geocaching, it is always useful.
Above I described the problem when navigating. If you can live, depending on the software version with some drifting and circuit racing - I can - is happy with the Oregon geocaching.
