Personal Pocket GPS Locator/tracker

The device has four important limitations, common to all cheap GPS devices. I rather imagine that many of the complaints from the other reviewers resulted from inattention to them. They are listed below. The fourth one is not in the instructions.(a) It takes 2-6 minutes to find satellites and put up its signal bars. Until then, it's dead in the water.(b) You have to be moving at least 1-2 mph for it to work.(c) It will get confused around buildings, even one-story houses. I think it has to do with radio echos. Forget using it in Manhattan.(d) The device assumes you're holding it flat, facing straight up towards the sky, with the top of the display pointed in your movement direction. This is natural enough for hikers. But, if you put it on the passenger seat of your car so you can read it naturally, the arrow in its display will be 90 degrees off. The top of the display has to be towards the front of the car.The device seems to work OK if you pay attention to the four limitations listed above.It has three buttons that multitask heavily. In fact, most of the time there's no distinction between the two arrow buttons, so in effect there are only two buttons. As you can imagine, this is not easy to deal with. I strongly recommend practicing with it several times before you traipse into the wilderness.Some of the critical info on the screen is in small type, so you'll need your glasses or magnifier.Also the device times out quickly. You'll be checking some numbers, and suddenly it will trash five minutes of your work.It took me two hours to decipher the instructions. The first paragraph sounds great. But the body is disorganized on a large scale and confusing in the individual sentences. For example, the section on screen #6 uses the word "option" with two different meanings -- there is no warning or clue about this and the reader is quite liable to get confused. Some diagrams would help.The device uses degrees, minutes, and seconds. There are WWW maps that use this system, but Google maps does not.One nice plus is the clock which is tied to the satellites. It's accurate to the second.Summary: if you're good at puzzling out electronic devices, go for it. If not, you might look for something easier to use (ie, with more buttons and a bigger screen).

Good little GPS for the price. Use for kids when geocaching. Take awhile to start up and find the signal. The kids loved them. Takes some time to figure out how to use, but if you have the patience and time....keeps the kids from fighting over our phones because they have somethig of their own to look at.Pros: clip into kids wear, small and portable, price point, great for kids useCons: using is more frustrating if you don't have the patience to learn, slow to boot up, slow to find signalIt's what I expected for the price and does what I need them to do!

It's the only small GPS (I have found) that you can enter POI's prior to being there. I wish instructions were bit clearer.After you play for awhile (1 - 2 hrs), all "actions" become clear and simple. I re-wrote summary instructions.edited comment (this is 2nd time) ...,At first, I thought (longer) distance calculations were off.A viewer wrote in and commented; the reference map datum may be an issue.I believe the Mini GPS uses WGS-84 system (the spec doesn't state). It comes up with local coordinates which match my version of WGS84.After further review, I discovered the distance issues were mine (not the mini GPS). I hadn't accounted properly for longitude mi/° derivative as function of latitude. I'm learning.Delivery of the unit from China was half the time estimate (only 2 weeks).

With modern GPS technology, cell phones, tablets & other items, most people would forego this little gadget; don't. It has a real purpose in a small package, marking up to 16 waypoints that is simple to use. The advantage is that the battery will last much longer than any cell phone, GPS or tablet & it will simply give you the arrow pointing direction to the waypoint w/out a lot of extra information to confuse you.

This is a nice compact unit, with a nice slightly rubberized feel. The size is actually small enough to put with keys, it holds 16 positions and charges via mini-usb (the square one, not the one on your phone). Only thing is, we couldn't get it to find ANY satellites. So, in the 3 days we tried to use it, it was useless, luckily we had other gps's.Too bad, the size of the unit is great.

So far I can't get this to work in a timely fashion as to make it useful. It takes too long for the device to tune in a satellite to make it useful for its intended purpose.

I haven't used any of the fancy features. Some comments:- manual is very hard to understand.- specs in manual say "Assistance: Message-based via NMEA serial port". What is this ? Any way to get NMEA out of the GPS ?- longitude reads "S" instead of "E".- works when powered on INSIDE a fiberglass boat; get 4 bars, same as outside on top.- good agreement with position from Garmin 128 GPS.

I thought it would be great for my husband and hunting. It seems that the few directions that cam with the product don't seem to answer the questions and no one at hunt camp could figure out how to use it.