Garmin Montana 680 Touchscreen GPS/GLONASS Receiver, Worldwide Basemaps
Montana 680 features a dual-orientation, 4-inch color touchscreen that’s glove friendly and includes a 1-year Birdseye Satellite Imagery subscription. The 8megapixel digital camera provides high-quality images, excellent resolution and automatically geotags photos with coordinates, allowing you to navigate back to the exact spot in the future. Includes 3-axis compass, barometric altimeter and access to both GPS and GLONASS satellites for improved positioning and typically faster fixes. High-sensitivity GPS holds your position even in the deepest cover. Includes 250,000 preloaded geocaches from Geocaching.com. Share your waypoints, tracks, routes and geocaches wirelessly with other compatible Garmin GPS users. Bumps, dirt, humidity and water are no match for the durable Montana 680 —water-rated to IPX7.
Product Features
- Preloaded Geocaches – 250,000 preloaded worldwide geocaches from Geocaching.com
- See Your Surroundings – Includes a 1-year Birdseye Satellite Imagery subscription1
- GPS and GLONASS – With its high-sensitivity, WAAS-enabled GPS receiver, Hotfix satellite prediction and GLONASS support, Montana locates your position quickly and precisely and maintains its location even in heavy cover and deep canyons
- Track Manager – Ability to organize and navigate through waypoints/routes/track logs (easily start/stop recording track logs)
- Capture The Moment – 8 megapixel digital camera for higher quality images and better resolution; geotagged with coordinates automatically, allowing you to
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Big screen and GLONASS a big plus Coming from the venerable 60CSx, I bought the Montana 680 for hiking, bicycling and sea kayak expeditions. I have a Nuvi 2689LMT for use in the car.I got the unit with the camera, not because I expected the camera to be fantastic – it isn’t. It’s just that there are times when I’m caught without one of my real cameras, usually on my bicycle, and this one comes in handy. Nice is the geo-tagging feature, which then appear as thumbnails in Basecamp.I do not find it overly…
Great device – read below to save a headache if your maps suck MUST READ- the device works great, but IMO Garmin is horrible at explaining how to use it. I assumed, incorrectly, that I would turn it on and get great looking maps right out of the box. Wrong. You have to download Basecamp, go to the map, highlight the area you want detailed, then download it to the Garmin. You only get High Def maps in areas that you choose. This is all free and included. In hindsight,it makes sense that there would be too much data to have High Def maps of the whole…
lousy camera. buy the 610, and use your mobile phone’s camera instead The seller was Amazon. I paid 479 bucks.My old GPS is a Garmin GPSMAP 76S. That was my first GPS, and I’ve had it since 1999. It is now slow to find satellites, sometimes forgets where it is (and needs to be reset using “new location” even within the same State), and sometimes freezes. It has served me well, before these problems.GPSI have to say that I really liked the way the 76S was setup, and the info that it provided me, and HOW it provided me with…