Garmin eTrex® 22x
KSh 25,999
- 2.2” sunlight-readable color display with 240 x 320 display pixels for improved readability
- Preloaded with TopoActive maps with routable roads and trails for cycling and hiking
- Support for GPS and GLONASS satellite systems allows for tracking in more challenging environments than GPS alone
- 8 GB of internal memory plus a microSD™ card slot
- eTrex 32x adds a 3-axis compass and barometric altimeter
- Battery life: up to 25 hours in GPS mode with 2 AA batteries
Garmin eTrex® 22x
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As tech gets smaller it often gets simpler to use but Garmin’s tiny eTrex 22x bucks the trend with its sensible and well-considered design. The biggest contributor to this is the mini joystick-style navigation knob, which is intuitive and quick in all the functions it provides.
Weight
The 22x fits in your pocket and weighs only 147 grams with its quota of two AA batteries included. That’s my kind of GPS because you can keep it handy while trekking yet it doesn’t demand a special pouch to ride in nor add burdensome weight.
Functionalities
The little Garmin does everything a handheld or bike-mounted GPS should do, from tracing the route you’ve taken to plotting a route you’ll take; from geocaching locations to advising the best hunting and fishing times.
Menu
The menus are pretty straightforward to follow and will come naturally to anyone already familiar with Garmin’s systems. You can navigate primarily with the joystick under your right thumb, and the ‘back’ button is right next to it.
On the left side, two buttons control the zoom and will also move you up and down through the menu. Just below them is a menu button. On the right, the on/off button doubles as a backlight adjuster. It is all very simple, which I applaud.
Screen
The colour screen is clear and bright in sunlight, with minimal reflection and it will not force you to find shade every time you want to look at it.
You can zoom out on the screen, then come in until the screen represents a ground width of about 20m. At any level, it can’t show the amount of terrain detail a large screen could, simply because the screen would be too cluttered, but at a low level, you can easily make sense of the ground within a few hundred meters of you.
How to use
Zoom out and the detail disappears a bit quicker than I’d like. However, if you plan all your broad-scale navigation at home on a big screen, and then use the 22x as your navigation aid in the field, it fulfills the function perfectly.
That’s exactly how I treated the 22x. In that context, the compromise of the small screen was perfectly sensible when I considered how much I liked the lack of weight and bulk.
Garmin has made no mistakes in the way it has approached the design of this compact little device. It’s a ripper.
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