Purschased one of these as our first handheld GPSr and really enjoyed it. The user interface is very basic and simple to use. The reception is pretty good, not so much under heavy cover though. Made our first 300 or so finds with this and still prefer some of it's features over the Garmin GPSMap62s we have now. Only made the upgrade for the routing, mapping, and projections doing puzzles and harder multi's. The GC can do basic projections from the location you are, but was not able to from other locations. The intitial load up time is a little slow (a few minutes with 3000+ caches on it), but we were able to enjoy full days of caching (8-12 hours) easily on a set of NiMH rechargables. Supposed to have an electronic compass, but never seems to work very well if your not moving.
For starter or simple GPSr, this is perfect. You can change the interface language to many other as well (including French). Easy plug and load straight from Geocaching.com cache pages or full pocket queries. When purchased the preloaded caches only had one in Ottawa, so really didn't mean much for us.
