What's next for Garmin handhelds?

Obstruction database (radio towers etc), and recharges when plugged
into aircraft power PLEASE.

I have a 195. Nice unit, but getting a little old. But I wont upgrade
until I get the above two.

GRMN stock has taken a dip (it was up to $59), it is now around $46.
Great company, great future.

I have almost lost all hope about Garmin's aviation "handhelds" - I love
their products but the Lowrance 500 is calling my name. (I owned a GPS
III Plus and a 195, for a while.) Garmin is seeming to take a geologic
age to update the GPS III Pilot into something more desireable....

Here is what I want Garmin to do:

Make a unit that has the same (or thinner) form factor as the GPS III
Pilot, but with a COLOR, higher resolution, backlit color display.
Maintain or improve the battery life. Provide a large amount of RAM in
which I can load RELATIVELY INEXPENSIVE ($50 for my area - e.g.
California) terrestrial (highway/road/street) data. ("Go to/Turn Here"
instructions would be nice but this is IMO a luxury.) Provide a
rechargeable battery (preferably NiMh), an NMEA-capable USB data cable,
and perhaps a yoke mounting device of some kind, as Lowrance did with my
Airmap 100. Include the 195's pseudo-IFR approach capability. Keep it
under $600.

I'd also like to download TFR info from Jepp Flitestar, but I know
that's a stretch...

Garmin: make it, and I will buy it.

Dave Blevins

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 08:27:31 -0800, R. Hubbell
wrote:



Any prognosticators out there that know what's next from Garmin in
the handheld category? I like the size of the Airmap 1000 but I also
like the company, Garmin, a little better.



R. Hubbell

No prognostication, but what I want is terrain and obstacle data. I
won't buy another Garmin handheld until they include that. The day
the do is probably the day I sell my 295 on eBay for $500 and get the
new one--with elevation data.