The Garmin Oregon 600 Waterproof Handheld GPS Unit is a great step forward in GPS handheld technology and the advances and the increased power will directly benefit your user experience.

The impact-resistant touch screen is easy to read even in bright sunshine and offers multi-touch and dual-orientation views as well as gloved operation.

The WAAS/EGNOS and GLONASS-enabled GPS receiver and HotFix satellite prediction will acquire your position faster and more exactly than ever and hold it even when you are under heavy foliage cover or hemmed in a steep-sided valley.

The built-in 3-axis electronic compass is equipped with accelerometer tilt compensation, which shows you exactly where you're heading even when you are standing stock still and even when you are not holding the unit level.

This is the scale of the advances the Garmin Oregon 600 Waterproof Handheld GPS Unit brings you but you see below that there are still a whole lot more features to make your outdoor experience as fulfilling as possible.

Touch and Go

The Garmin Oregon 600 GPS was purposely engineered for the outdoors. It features the most brilliant, sunlight readable touch screen Garmin have ever put on a Garmin handheld, strengthened for impact resistance but with multi-touch and dual-orientation views that still accommodate gloved operation. Bumps, dust, dirt, humidity and water are no match for this mapping-oriented navigator.

Get Your Bearings

The Garmin Oregon 600 has a built-in 3-axis electronic compass with accelerometer tilt compensation, which shows where you're heading even when you’re standing still, and not holding it level. Its barometric altimeter tracks changes in pressure to pinpoint your precise altitude and you even can use it to plot barometric pressure over time, which can help you keep an eye on changing weather conditions. And with its high-sensitivity, WAAS/EGNOS and GLONASS-enabled GPS receiver and HotFix satellite prediction, Oregon 600 locates your position quicker and more precisely and maintains its GPS location even in heavy cover and steep-sided valleys.

Double Your Power

Besides its outstanding performance of up to 16 hours of battery time, the Oregon 600 features Garmin’s outdoor-optimised dual-battery system. You have the option of using the internally rechargeable NiMH pack (not included) or traditional AA batteries in case there is no opportunity for charging. The NiMH pack charges automatically whenever the device is connected to external power.

Share Wirelessly

Now you can wirelessly transfer large files such as photos, geocaches, routes and Custom Maps between Oregon 600 series devices. Plus, new technology allows your routes, waypoints and tracks to transfer up to 50 times faster. Sync your data such as waypoints, geocaches, tracks and images to the Garmin Cloud and access from anywhere via your smartphone and BaseCamp mobile app. Oregon is also ANT+ wireless compatible with heart rate, chirp and tempe sensors.

Add Maps

Adding more maps to the Oregon 600 GPS is easy. Load Garmin GB Discoverer Ordnance Survey 1:50k maps or choose Garmin Birdseye Select 1:25k Ordnance Survey maps and hit the trail. Plug in BlueChart g2 pre-loaded cards for a great day on the water or load City Navigator map data for turn-by-turn routing on roads. Add satellite images to your maps with Birdseye Satellite Imagery (subscription required). You can even display and enter coordinates in British Grid format, the grid used on Ordnance Survey maps.

Load All the Geocaches

No more need to pick, choose and plan - just download them all. The Oregon 600 can hold a huge number of geocaches - 4 million! Download every cache on OpenCaching.com., load caches from GSAK or use your favourite program or website supporting GGZ files. All your paperless geocaching features will be there for every cache. Read full descriptions, hints and logs, filter caches by size, terrain, difficulty and type, connect to chirp-enabled caches and record your logs in the field. Do it all - the Oregon 600 has no limit.

Plan Your Next Trip

Make the most of your adventures with BaseCamp, Garmin's free trip-planning software. BaseCamp is the perfect environment to comfortably prepare your trips with maps, waypoints, tracks and routes before you get out and once you are home again to create amazing Garmin Adventures to share with friends, family or fellow explorers. The software displays topographic map data in 2-D or 3-D on your computer screen, including contour lines and elevation profiles.

Re-Live Your Journeys

The BaseCamp mobile Mobile app lets you supplement the Oregon 600 GPS with the power of your smartphone (iPhone 4S or newer). Easily manage and share the waypoints, routes and tracks you have logged on your trail-hardened device. Simply sync the Oregon 600 with your smartphone to download your data using Bluetooth 4.0 wireless technology. You can upload this trip data to your Garmin Cloud account, the private online storage data centre, and access from anywhere. This data can later be used to create your very own Garmin Adventure which allows you to share your travels with friends and let fellow explorers follow in your footsteps.

Create and Share Adventures

Garmin Adventures provides a free, interactive way to share your hikes, bike rides, road trips and more. Using BaseCamp, you can combine track logs, waypoints, geotagged photos, YouTube videos etc into an adventure that gets published online. You can then email a link to your adventure to friends and family, share it on social media sites or post it in your favourite forums. BaseCamp even makes it easy to follow in the footsteps of other travellers by allowing you to search for and download adventures.

Features

• Display brightness: Reflective display technology uses external light such as sunlight in combination with the device’s LED backlight to increase brightness and viewing. You also conserve power by not having to turn the backlight up.
• Dual orientation: View maps and data in portrait or landscape mode. Landscape mode is great for typing and road navigation.
• Advanced elevation plot: Full Track view lets you see the entire elevation plot and quickly move your zoomed view to any place on the plot. Future Plot uses your mapping data to show what to expect ahead.
• Improved trip computer: Get 33% more data on screen at once with new layout options. Add multiple pages of data fields, each customisable to 1 of 4 layouts: 2 large, 1 large + 4 small, 6 small or 8 small.
• Activity tracking (calendar): Track your accumulated activities, waypoints and geocaches on the day you do them.
• Advanced waypoint management: All data is displayed and editable on one screen. Delete one or multiple waypoints at a time from the Waypoint Manager menu.
• Wireless capable - Bluetooth and ANT: Now you can wirelessly transfer large files such as photos, geocaches, adventures, routes and Custom Maps between Oregon 600 series devices or with Garmin Basecamp Mobile. Plus, new technology allows your routes, waypoints and tracks to transfer up to 50 times faster. The Oregon 600 is also ANT+ wireless compatible for heart rate, cadence, chirp and tempe sensors.
• Shortcuts: Launch apps, switch profiles, apply settings and start navigating with one touch.
• Dashboards/nüvi mode: Dashboards let you hide and show more functions to your favourite app. With this at-a-glance information, you can multi-task without having to disable the app.

Specification

Physical and Performance

• Unit dimensions (W x H x D): 2.4 x 4.5 x 1.3 inches (6.1 x 11.4 x 3.3 cm)
• Display size (W x H): 1.5 x 2.5 inches (3.8 x 6.3 cm); 3-inch (7.6-cm) diagonal
• Display resolution (W x H): 240 x 400 pixels
• Display type: Transflective colour TFT touch screen
• Weight incl batteries: 7.4 oz (209.8 g)
• Battery: 2 x AA batteries (not incl); NiMH or Lithium recommended, rechargeable NiMH pack (optional)
• Battery life: 16 hrs
• Waterproof: Yes (IPX7)
• Floats: No
• High-sensitivity receiver: Yes
• Interface: High-speed USB and NMEA 0183 compatible

Maps and Memory

• Basemap: Yes
• Pre-loaded maps: No
• Ability to add maps: Yes
• Built-in memory: 1.5 GB
• Accepts data cards: microSD card (not incl)
• Waypoints/favourites/locations: 4000
• Routes: 200
• Track log: 10,000 points, 200 saved tracks

Features and Benefits

• Automatic routing (turn-by-turn routing on roads): Yes (with optional mapping for detailed roads)
• Electronic compass: Yes (tilt-compensated 3-axis)
• Touch screen: Yes
• Barometric altimeter: Yes
• Camera: No
• Geocaching-friendly: Yes (paperless)
• Custom maps compatible: Yes
• Photo navigation (navigate to geotagged photos): Yes
• Hunt/fish calendar: Yes
• Sun and moon information: Yes
• Area calculation: Yes
• Custom points of interest (ability to add additional POIs): Yes
• Unit-to-unit transfer (shares data wirelessly with similar units): Yes (plus images and custom maps)
• Picture viewer: Yes
• Garmin Connect compatible (online community where you analyze, categorize and share data): Yes
• Additional: USB mass storage device is compatible with Windows XP or newer and Mac OS X 10.4 or later