[Az-Geocaching] Look ma, no hands!

Regan Smith listserv@azgeocaching.com
Wed, 18 Dec 2002 07:16:09 -0700


I remember hearing something to the effect that you could use a AA battery
pack for additional time.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Cluff" <brian@snaptek.com>
To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Look ma, no hands!


> On Tuesday 17 December 2002 06:44 pm, Bell, Robert wrote:
> > Brian, something for the list serv home page...
> >
> > I found my Christmas present!  The worlds first GPS watch:
> >
> >
>
http://www.casio-europe.com/euro/wat/collections/protrek/lineup/satellite_na
vi/
>
> If thats the GPS that came out a couple years ago... it seems like a great
> idea at first thought, but if you read the battery life and other specs on
> it, it's actually a rather lame product.  It only has a battery life of
about
> an hour, but I guess since you can only have 10 waypoints, thats not
exactly
> too little, because your batteries will die before you can find that many
> caches :)
>
> I would be interested in knowing if they have improved it at all.  It
would be
> nice to have a GPS all the time that updates more often than once a minute
or
> so, without chewing up your batteries.
>
> Brian Cluff
> Team Snaptek
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