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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community May 25, 2005
Pros: Location sending, FRS/GMRS two-way radio, size, durability
Cons: Battery life and power button placement
Summary: Garmin has been an industry leader in Global Positioning Service (GPS) for a long time. There really are only two at the retail, everyday consumer level that provide GPS, Garmin and Magellan. Now, Garmin has added two-way radio features to their latest ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 18, 2012
Pros: A competent navigation aid. Keeps you in touch with others and shows where they are.
Cons: It's bloody expensive. Missing a few key features like a card slot, compass, and beacon.
Summary: If the Garmin Rino were sold on late night TV infomercials, the sales pitch would go something like this: "Lost in the woods? Can't find your friends? No more tricky smoke signals, no more expensive flares! Stop using that soggy paper map and no ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 14, 2005
Pros: Awesome concept, great execution, seamless radio/GPS interface.
Cons: Legendary Garmin crappy GPS reception. Little memory for custom maps.
Summary: My other reviews on GPSs focus on Magellans, which I consider to be a superior product with better satellite signal processing. That said, the Garmin Rhino 120 has won me over with the basic concept. A FRS/GMRS radio with dozens of great features and a ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 15, 2004
Pros: Battery life, GPS accuracy, features, concept
Cons: Radio is simply useless. Not exaggerating.
Summary: GPS is great. Radio has caused me lots of troubles. On first hunting trip, nobody could hear me, I thought the radio was crap, it was nearly a year old and I didn't have the receipt, but I called Garmin and they agreed to fix it. I sent it in, and ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 7, 2004
Pros: Good GPS function, convenient size for hunting/hiking.
Cons: Poor radio function. Very limited compatibility with other mapping and Topo software.
Summary: Bought this unit with a friend to use for hunting. I wish I had read some reviews first. We found that after a somewhat steep learning curve, the GPS functions were pretty good. The only GPS issue we had any trouble with was occasional signal loss ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 4, 2004
Pros: light weight.Waterproof.fairly easy to use
Cons: color
Summary: I bought the 110 for hunting and hiking. I wasn't interested in the 120 due to cost and features i would never use. The 110 frs radio is pretty good. I can communicate with my buddy easily although we didn't test the range over 1 km.I chose the American ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 2, 2003
Pros: Gps is great, functions are intuitive, radio integration is an awesome concept.
Cons: Originals were bad, and had to be exchanged.
Summary: 7/2/03 Update: We have received the replacements, and they work great. Though I've only had the chance to check them on flat ground at a range of about 1 mile, the units worked perfectly. The radios worked fine, with one unit having just a touch of ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 9, 2003
Pros: Great!
Cons: No auto-routing
Summary: This is my first GPS, and I have wanted one for some time, but just never got around to getting one.
When I was looking originally I figured, what the heck this may kill two birds with one stone, so I decided that I'd give it a go.
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 31, 2003
Pros: Great product, great features.
Cons: Doesn't live up to its advertising.
Summary: They lied in their advertising. The unit only transmits at 1 watt, not 2 watts. 2 watts is required for talking 5 miles. Motorola Distance transmits 2 watts and claims 5 mile range, how can Garmin make the same claim while only transmitting at 1 watt? ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 6, 2002
Pros: Physically feels very solid but light. Good screen, basemap detail and coverage; good radio range.
Cons: Serial port PC cable (but USB adapter available); navigation takes getting used to; no auto-routing.
Summary: A mapping GPS receiver and a FRS / GMRS 2-way radio in a single small, rugged, waterproof (submersible) device would seem like a traveler's dream. But does it realize its potential in practical use? The short answer is "yes, for the most part."
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 2, 2002
Pros: Great functions, very good sattelite reception, waterproof.
Cons: Click stick too small, awkward somewhat bulky shape.
Summary: This is an excellent unit for the hunter or avid outdoorsman! It picks up and holds onto sattelites better than most units I have seen. I've had about 5 different GPS's over the last few years and this is the coolest and best functioning one for sure. I ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 27, 2002
Pros: Easy to use GPS
Cons: The worst audio of any frs radio on the market
Summary: What a great idea, an FRS radio and GPS in one small package. The GPS has a small screen but the zoom makes up for that. Garmin has done a great job making the GPS as simple to use as any I have tried. The Rino uses a Click stick (joy stick ) to control ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 14, 2002
Pros: its light,looks like its durable
Cons: screen is too small,click and stick control button is pain to use.
Summary: ive had my rino 120 2 weeks now and everyday i think i dislike it a little more.the biggest problem is mic isnt sensitive enough people on other frs radios cant hear me talk.i can here them fine but no matter how loud i talk into mic the people listening ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 12, 2002
Pros: Loads of features, compact size, PC upgradeable maps, peer-to-peer positioning, battery life
Cons: Clumsy radio features, bulky 3rd battery location
Summary: I decided to purchase the Rino 120 for several uses. For hunting, camping, hiking, snowmachining, flying, snowboarding and tactics for my favorite hobby of airsoft.
The applications are almost limitless and the deal is almost unreal. Lots of ... read more
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Rated Show by the Epinions community May 28, 2007
Pros: Easy for any age to use. Stay in contact with your kids by using display.
Cons: Battery life short. Use battery saver feature and turn volume down to extend life.
Summary: I own both the Rino 110 and Rino 120. Both models are light weight, easy to use and are PACKED with extra features that I did not expect. The Rino 120 has extra memory for more detailed mapping and memory. I live in Southern Utah and spend most if not
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Rated Show by the Epinions community Dec 10, 2005
Pros: Know exactly where you hunting buddies are, always have a radio with you, convenient GUI.
Cons: Batteries don't last long, radio reception, joystick is tricky.
Summary: I've enjoyed having my Rino 120. It is a great piece of gear. Navigating the features makes sense, it's easy to mark way-points. One of the best features is the ability to see the location of other people carrying a Rino. My hunting buddy lost
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Rated Show by the Epinions community Sep 17, 2004
Pros: wonderful GPS system, and peer to peer
Cons: as radios... horrible really need to work that aspect out. disappointing.
Summary: So far I love the GPS and peer to peer aspects of the garmin 120, if only the radio actually worked. the quality is absolutely atrocious, I have contacted them in this regard, I even compared them to the motorola talk abouts, and the difference is
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Rated Show by the Epinions community Jul 8, 2004
Pros: Contains everything a person needs, Radio, GPS and topo's. Very accurate GPS.
Cons: Can not trust provided belt clip.
Summary: I purchased two Rinos for Hunter Education class presentations. Spent time in dense forest evaluating the RINO features. Found units to work as advertised. I down loaded the area topo's for eastern Arizona. GPS units performed very well in timber. Units
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Rated Show by the Epinions community Mar 14, 2004
Pros: Good GPS accuracy.
Cons: GMRS/FRS radio is a joke.
Summary: The gps works great when connected to a satellite and has very good accuracy.Now the gmrs/frs radio is a different story. In a straight line of 300yrds with no trees, the radio will be clear,any futher you must make smoke signals.This is a rip off.This
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Rated Show by the Epinions community Jan 4, 2004
Pros: GPS, Battery Life
Cons: The Radio, Cost
Summary: The GPS in this unit works great. But then this is a Garmin unit, that is what they do... The internal 8MB of storage is enough for most of the maps I have used. The battery life is good compared to other units I have used. (my Garmin 195 eats
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