Garmin Rino 120 GPS Review

The Garmin Rino 120 is the latest in Garmin's hand held GPS navigation and two-way communications systems. Equipped with enough memory to download detailed maps for driving, hiking, hunting, fishing, or just about anything else you can dream up, the Rino 120 is small and waterproof and built to last.

The Rino 120 can beam your exact location to another Rino user within a two-mile range using the position reporting feature, so you can talk to your buddy who knows where you are. The two-way functionality of the Rino 120 provides communications for up to two miles. You can talk to friends or family who own conventional FRS radios and there's also a voice scrambler, coding feature and a vibration mode for silent calls.

The Rino 120 has a built-in system of maps consisting of American road and highway details, along with 8 MB of internal memory for downloading additional road, street, and points-of-interest. Garmin has done an excellent job of showing the user the distance, ETA and even an approximate location on a basemap already provided in the unit. A PC-interface cable and strong clip also come with the Rino 120.

The Garmin Rino 120 is state-of-the-art GPS navigation and two-way communications combined, with enough memory to download detailed mapping for driving, hiking, hunting, fishing or anything else you can think of. The Rino is a great integration of GPS and FRS. The price tag may seem a bit high until you realize that the exact same GPS without a radio is about the same price. The features over the Garmin 110 are well worth it.