Color or Mono Screen? Which Do You Prefer for GeoCaching?

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What Screen Type do You Find Best for GeoCaching?

Mono (Never Used Anything Else)
17
65%
Color (Never Used Anything Else)
5
19%
Mono
2
8%
Color
2
8%
 
Total votes: 26

Lucanos
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Color or Mono Screen? Which Do You Prefer for GeoCaching?

Post by Lucanos » 13 March 05 10:06 am

Just a quick poll of my fellow AussieCachers...<br>
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Have you had experience with both Color & Mono Screen GPS Units?<br>
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If so, have you found the Color or the Mono screen easier to use for GeoCaching?<br>
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Further, what unit(s) are you basing this on?

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Post by Dooghan » 13 March 05 10:15 am

I've only ever used a Magellan 2000 XL (first GPS which does not get used now but I still got) and an basic Etrex. So for colour I've never seen one

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Post by Bronze » 13 March 05 10:17 am

Once you go Black you never go back.

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Hmmm - Lovely.

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Colour... but that's because it's an IPAQ

Post by Partic » 13 March 05 10:22 am

Using a (now dated) IPAQ 3630 with GPS jacket, I've got colour due to the IPAQ having colour.<P>Having caught up with a few other geocachers at recent picnics in Sydney and Melbourne, it comes down to more features other than the colour (and size) of your screen.
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Aspects such as waypoint selection, software tools, navigation routing etc I think all matter more. By using UBD maps on my IPAQ, colour seperates out the features of the maps, but at times that can also be a hinderance when you misdiagnose what the feature may actually be.

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Post by xf king » 13 March 05 8:23 pm

Even though I have never used a colour screen on GPS I have seen them operationg in a few stores in melbourne. Even though they look all nice I think the mono screen offers a much more reliable read out in direct sunlight.

I have a colour screen mobile phone and its honestly hopeless in direct sunlight..

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Post by bigmickb » 13 March 05 10:21 pm

I've just upgraded recently from a B&W to a colour screen. It sure is nice, but its by no means vital to my caching success. I haven't had too big a problem reading it in direct sunlight, however the B&W probably was a bit better in that regard.

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Post by Cached » 13 March 05 10:40 pm

having gone from a black screen to a colour - you never notice how good the colour is until you use one that is black again - and it isn't a patch.

For caching - yeah, maybe its' here or there, but for the mapping - the colour is magic.

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Post by Map Monkey » 13 March 05 10:55 pm

Cached wrote:...For caching - yeah, maybe its' here or there, but for the mapping - the colour is magic.
Agreed Cached :lol:

To comment that the colour is not as good as mono and vice versa you really need to try them for yourself and not rely on judgements based on no experience :lol: I find that my colour GPS is great when displaying maps with higher detail than normal eg. bluecharts (Garmin) looks and works fantastic on my GPSr as compared to my (older) mono GPSr.

Agsmky.

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