Syulang<p>I am quite a big fan of the Garmin Etrex series. They're light. They run on AA batteries. They have zero reliance on a mobile signal, apps, updates or whatever.</p><p>But damn, it's soooo underpowered. The model line desperately needs refreshing with a new SoC, and a slightly bigger and higher ppi screen (another 1cm would be perfect, and maybe 800x480 res). </p><p>Much as everyone moans about the UI, I think it's fairly intuitive and everyone knows the layout, so I think just reskinning it for legibility but keeping the same design principles would make sense.</p><p>And FFS, just buy Gaia maps from Outside. Use their tiles as the standard accross the board for all Garmin devices, and use their app ecosystem and web UI to replace the cluster of ducks that passes for whatever abomination it is Garmin summoned from the pits of early 2000s car satnavs. </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Bushwalking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bushwalking</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Garmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Garmin</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/RandomRant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RandomRant</span></a></p>