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I still want to know if you can add custom profiles/activities.

 

For example... even when hiking, my preferred settings are different than my wife's preferred settings. So I like to have my own profiles for specific activities that are different than someone else's who might also use the GPS.

 

Yes, you can make your own duplicate/different 'Activity' profiles.

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I still want to know if you can add custom profiles/activities.

 

For example... even when hiking, my preferred settings are different than my wife's preferred settings. So I like to have my own profiles for specific activities that are different than someone else's who might also use the GPS.

 

Yes, you can make your own duplicate/different 'Activity' profiles.

 

I guess I should clarify... This can be done on the Oregon 700?

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I still want to know if you can add custom profiles/activities.

 

For example... even when hiking, my preferred settings are different than my wife's preferred settings. So I like to have my own profiles for specific activities that are different than someone else's who might also use the GPS.

 

Yes, you can make your own duplicate/different 'Activity' profiles.

 

I guess I should clarify... This can be done on the Oregon 700?

 

According to the Oregon 700 manual(page 4 of the version I found online)you can add Activity.

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I still want to know if you can add custom profiles/activities.

 

For example... even when hiking, my preferred settings are different than my wife's preferred settings. So I like to have my own profiles for specific activities that are different than someone else's who might also use the GPS.

 

Yes, you can make your own duplicate/different 'Activity' profiles.

 

I guess I should clarify... This can be done on the Oregon 700?

 

I should clarify: Yes, you can make your own duplicate/different 'Activity' profiles on the Oregon 7x0 series.

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I've just got a 700 and am still exploring;

 

Yes, activities are basically profiles, but now presented on the first screen and you can slide left and right to select which one. Like profiles, you can set every preference under settings and it locks to that activity.

 

They switch much faster than profiles too (which on my 650 used to crash if the gps had been on for a while)

 

Yes, you can add, delete, edit names and icons relating to them.

 

There are a lot of functionally different aspects. Caching itself works similarly, although with different (and to my taste, uglier) icons. Although I have been unable to mark a waypoint or access any of the other waypoint functions from any of the activity pages. (You can map the user key to open it, and the list of functions is now called the 'status page', which can also be mapped). Despite a lot of searching I haven't found a way to access that from the activity menus anywhere.

 

You can revert to 'classic' mode, but I'm not poking that as I want to give Activities more of a good try.

 

There are "IQ Apps", but despite my loading them successfully, according to the Garmin Express software, they aren't showing as available. (Also, there is a very limited selection as yet)

 

The "Geocaching live" works and shows a greater cooperation between Garmin and Groundspeak which has to be good. That said, it's not as well developed or refined as most smartphone apps.

 

Battery life is reasonable, about the 6?? spec. A lot more free space on the internal memory, and uses a memory card in the same way as previous models. (For extra maps)

 

Is the 700 worth the money? Honestly, it's a lot of cash and you could get a great smartphone for that if the live caching is a big thing for you. I prefer to have a separate gps device (battery and ruggedness reasons, mostly) but the gap is less than it was. I wanted to replace my 650 which has done well, but has always been a bit crashy and recently has lost caches halfway through a trip.

 

I don't exactly have buyers remorse, but I don't have buyer's elation either...

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