Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65255 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Garmin

Manufacturer's Description
Accuracy: 10 feet or less with WAAS Easy operation: five buttons for one-hand use Weight: only 3.1oz with batteries Compact size: 3.9" x 1.9" x .96" High-contrast display: 64 x 100 pixels Battery life: 12 hours on 2 AAA batteries Waypoint/Route storage: 500/20 x 125 Automatic track storage: 10,000 trackpoints and 10 saved tracks External ports: PC connectivity and external power Waterproof: submersible for 30 minutes in one meter of water (IEC 529 IPX7 standards) Entertainment: four interactive, outdoor games

The colorful Gekos are the smallest and lightest waterproof GPS units to hit the market. Both the Geko 101and the Geko 201 are inexpensive and offer sleek, thin designs with simple operating systems.

With its distinctive canopy-green case, the powerful Geko 201 allows more waypoint and route storage, as well as available PC and external power connectivity, and built-in WAAS capability. In addition, the Geko 201 boasts a user-configurable trip computer, 10,000 trackpoints, a new upcoming-turn feature, as well as PanTrack™ and TracBack®.

The Geko 201also includes four fun, interactive games that transform the great outdoors into a virtual board game. Enjoy a good workout while chasing a virtual lizard in Geko Smak, match symbols in a grid version of Memory Race, navigate to reference points without crossing one’s trail in Nibbons, and collect symbols along a path in VirtualMaze.

Customer Reviews

geko 201
I am very impressed with the geko. I have used other GPS units for the past 6 years but this takes the biscuit! It is very lightweight and rugged. (its been dropped on numerous occasions!) The accuracy it can achieve is amazing. (3ft !!!)
The best thing about it though is the size of the screen compared to the overall size of the unit. It displays a lot of easily readable information with an easy to use menu system.
Brilliance in a tiny package...

Good little unit integrates well with Google Earth.
I've been using this unit to keep track of my kayak trips around the pembrokeshire cost on Google Earth. Not Google Earth plus. Whilst google earth plus does synch with your Geko you can use your Geko with Google Earth easily enough.
Simply install "Easy GPS" this will enable you to save GPS info from your Geko, then use www.gpsvisualizer.com to convert it into a file google earth can read. Open the file with google earth and there you go your precise route on Google earth. Free GPS mapping with Google Earth. You can then do the same in reverse to output a route from Google Earth to your GPS unit.

The Geko unit is brilliant value, to be able to download routes colour coded according to how fast you were going to Google earth is brilliant and whilst the unit doesn't particularly like tree cover, I have used the unit in my car and this doesn't seem to faze it, maintaining a good strong signal and pointing an arrow showing me where to go along a route from Google earth.

I've also done a bit of this geocaching thing, which is quite fun and the accuracy of the GPS unit would be a definant boon if it wasn't for the fact that the cache could be planted using an inaccurate GPS. But I've found 3 so far.

I also recently uploaded the sites to see in Amsterdam on to the unit from the web enabling me to roam around the city at random knowing instantly what there was to see nearby, or to navigate in the direction of what I wanted.

The Geko works well, integrates perfectly with superb free computer software, enabling you to do everything you want to do with a unit without any extra outlay apart from that stupidly expensive cable to connect to the computer in the first place.

Deceptively powerful, wonderfully compact, superb for all conditions and uses except maybe potholing.

Geko 201
I've had one of these for a few years now and It's a very good entry level handheld GPS. It looks like Garmin have superceeded it with their newer eTrex-H but while Garmin claim this newer GPS exists, I can't find anywhere selling it yet.
The Geko201, while an excellent unit sufferes from a few weaknesses:
1. The display is quite narrow, when going North or South the extra length of the screen is noticeably more useful than when going East or West.
2. The GPS does tend to loose satelite lock when under trees. After much investigation I discovered that holding the GPS flat at arms length helps (over having it on your belt) but as this gets tedious putting it in a 'belt' pouch connected to a backpack strap at your sholder helps.
3. When you have a lot of waypoints in an area they overlap and become unreadable. It would be helpful if Garmin allowed you to specify the importance of a waypoint when you placed it (Major, Med, Minor) and whenever a Major and Minor waypoint overlapped the Major waypoint would suppress the minor. Alas it doesn't do this.
4. When the GPS looses lock, for a short time it assumes you are still going in the same direction and at the same speed as it last saw you move. Then when it gets a new lock it assumes you moved from its last guess to your new position in one step. This leads to it assuming you've 'jumped' some distances sometimes and makes the "max speed" readout useless (I regularly get a max walking speed of > 30 mph as a result of this weakness in the firmware)
Having said all that I do love this GPS.