Garmin Oregon 550 Handheld Touchscreen GPS Unit

The Garmin Oregon 550 is the handheld touchscreen GPS navigator with the photographic memory.

The Oregon 550 combines rugged touchscreen navigation with a 3.2 megapixel digital camera. With high-sensitivity GPS, a barometric altimeter, 3-axis electronic compass and a microSD card slot, the

Take Pictures and Save Locations

Use the Oregon 550's 3.2 megapixel digital camera with autofocus and 4x digital zoom to capture locations and memories.

Each photo is automatically geotagged with the location of where it was taken, allowing you to navigate back to that exact spot in the future. Snap and view pictures in landscape or portrait orientation. With 850 MB of internal memory, you'll never miss a photo opportunity. To store online, simply connect Oregon 550 via USB and log into my.Garmin.com to upload and store your photos at Picasa, a popular online photo sharing community for friends and families around the world.

Need more storage? The Oregon 550 features a microSD card slot so you can even view pictures from other devices on microSD with Oregon's picture viewer.

Touch and Go

Navigation is made effortless with the tough 3-inch diagonal, sunlight-readable, colour touchscreen display featured on the Oregon 550. It is such a simple interface to use, you will spend more time enjoying the great outdoors and less time searching for information.

Durable and waterproof, the Oregon 550 is built to withstand the elements. Bumps, dust, dirt, humidity, water - none of these is a match for this rugged navigator.

Get Your Bearings

Oregon 550 has a built-in 3-axis tilt-compensated electronic compass, which shows your heading even when you’re standing still without having to hold it level. Its barometric altimeter tracks changes in pressure to pinpoint your precise altitude and you can even use it to plot barometric pressure over time, which can help you keep an eye on changing weather conditions. With a high-sensitivity, WAAS-enabled GPS receiver and HotFix satellite prediction, the Oregon 550 will locate your position quickly and precisely and will maintain its GPS location even in heavy cover and deep canyons.

Add Maps

Coming preloaded with a worldwide built-in basemap with shaded relief, more detail can be added to the Oregon 500 by simply inserting a MapSource microSD card pre-loaded with detailed maps.

Oregon can accept a variety of maps for any navigational need:

• Add detailed street maps to get turn-by-turn directions to your destination
• Add select topographic maps to take advantage of Oregon’s 3-D maps and elevation detail
• Or add BlueChart g2 maps, which provide everything you need for a great day on the water, including depth contours, navaids and harbours

Find Fun

The Oregon 550 allows you join the online global scavenger hunt that is Geocaching. Go paperless with Oregon 550 by quickly downloading information from Geocaching.com for up to 5000 caches, such as location, terrain, difficulty, hints and description. No more manually entering coordinates and paper print outs. Slim and lightweight, Oregon is the perfect companion for all your outdoor pursuits.

Share Wirelessly

With Oregon 550 you can share your waypoints, tracks, routes and geocaches wirelessly with other Oregon and Colorado users. Now you can send your favourite route to a friend to enjoy or the location of a cache to find. Sharing data is easy, just touch 'Send' to transfer your information to similar devices.

Garmin Oregon 550 - picture the great outdoors.

Features

• 3.2 megapixel with autofocus and 4x digital zoom
• Automatic routing (turn by turn routing on roads): Yes (with optional mapping for detailed roads)
• Electronic compass: Yes (tilt-compensated, 3-axis)
• Touchscreen: Yes
• Barometric altimeter: Yes
• Geocaching-friendly: Yes (paperless)
• Outdoor GPS games: Yes (Wherigo only)
• Hunt/fish calendar: Yes
• Sun and moon information: Yes
• Tide tables: Yes
• Area calculation: Yes
• Custom POIs (ability to add additional points of interest): Yes
• Unit-to-unit transfer (shares data wirelessly with similar units): Yes
• Picture viewer: Yes

Maps & Memory

• Basemap: Yes
• Preloaded maps: No
• Ability to add maps: Yes
• Built-in memory: 850 MB
• Accepts data cards: microSD card (not included)
• Waypoints/favourites/locations: 2000
• Routes: 200
• Track log: 10,000 points/200 saved tracks

Physical & Performance

• Unit dimensions: 5.8 x 11.4 x 3.5 cm (WxHxD)
• Display size: 3.8 x 6.3 cm (WxH)
• Display resolution: 240 x 400 pixels
• Display type: Transflective colour TFT touchscreen
• Weight: 192.7 g
• Battery: 2 x AA NiMH batteries included
• Battery life: 16 hours
• Waterproof: Yes (IPX7)
• Floats: No
• High-sensitivity receiver: Yes
• Interface: High-speed USB and NMEA 0183 compatible