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Spot 3 Satellite GPS Messenger - Orange

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Brand	Spot
Color	Orange
Are Batteries Included	Yes
Human Interface Input	Buttons
Item Dimensions LxWxH	2.56 x 1 x 3.43 inches
Map Type	Satellite

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S. O. S. - in an emergency, send an S. O. S. With your GPS location to geos, who facilitates search and rescue
Check in - let contacts know where you are and that you're okay with a pre-programmed message
Help/spot S. O. V. - request help from your friends and family at your GPS location. OR, ask for help from professional assistance organizations
Custom message- let contacts know where you are by sending a pre-programmed message with your GPS location
Track- automatically send and save your location and allow contacts to track your progress using google maps
Service agreement required.

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SPOT Gen3 gives you a critical, life-saving line of communication when you travel beyond the boundaries of cell Service. The latest generation of award-winning SPOT devices, SPOT Gen3 lets family and friends know you're okay, or if the worst should happen, sends emergency responders your GPS location - all with the push of a button. Add this rugged, pocket-sized device to your essential gear and stay connected wherever you roam. Long live adventure. Service agreement required.

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English, French
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 2.56 x 1 x 3.43 inches; 4 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ SPOT-3 ORANGE
Department ‏ : ‎ Unisex-adult
Batteries ‏ : ‎ 2 Lithium Metal batteries required. (included)
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ August 7, 2013
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ SPOT LLC
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00C8S8S4W

Best Sellers Rank: #78,121 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
- #240 in Handheld GPS Units

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Hsiekbert

Don't buy it

Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2017

Verified Purchase

This was a mistake. I hate it. Last year I bought it for my son and daughter Inlaw as they were preparing for a walk on the Appalachian trail. I thought it would be easy to track them. It did not auto update location very well and of course extra money was needed for the tracking features. Nothing intuit about the software or application. You have to use a credit card to activate the SPOT. They automatically billed my credit card after a year. Almost $200 with no warning. Obviously they were unable to reimburse that.

300 people found this helpful

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Scott Hines

This device is a ripoff

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2017

Verified Purchase

Very unhappy with my Spot Gen3. First, the price listed on Amazon is less than 1/2 of what you really have to pay. They don't make it clear that to use the device you have to sign up for a $199/yr subscription account. (more than I paid for the device) Secondly, this is one of the most difficult devices to configure and setup that I have ever encountered. (And I am professional software engineer with a degree in computer science) Then after 2 hours of wrestling my way through the setup, the device doesn't work. It won't synch and communicate with the GPS network. I've tried numerous attempts to get it to connect, and I get nothing. I've tried contacting the manufacture and received no response. I've tried contacting the retailer/seller of the device and they have say they have no expertise on the device "they just sell them". Don't waste your valuable time and hard earned money on this device. Its a rip off. IMHO

229 people found this helpful

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Tia Leber

CRUMMY CUSTOMER SERVICE. DONT BUY THIS PRODUCT

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2017

Verified Purchase

DONT BUY THIS PRODUCT! I echo all the other negative comments about the automatic renewal policy and crummy customer service. We bought this device when we took a job working internationally. It stopped working the 3rd or 4th time I used it and it got put on the shelf. Then we got burned for $215, first noticed when the charge showed up on my credit card bill. I missed the email notification which requires you to opt-out rather than opt-in for the renewal. Customer service, only reachable by phone during "normal business hours" (a chore, since I live 10 time zones away in a country that blocks SKYPE) was of no help, offering me a $100 discount off my next renewal. So far it has cost me about $120 per text message.
An identical device, purchased for our daughter for her travels in South America and Asia last year, also stopped working after a month or so, and is also sitting on the shelf. As she is a single young women travelling in a lot of out of the way places, we would have loved for her to have a functioning device. But SPOT let us down there as well.
Spend your money with a company that cares about it's customers.

128 people found this helpful

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Failed after first use

Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2015

Verified Purchase

I've had a spot tracker first gen in the past, and it worked perfectly fine for my needs. I recently decided to get a Spot 3 for kayaking. It is supposedly IPX7 rated (ie, should survive 30mn at up to 1m underwater). I took it out for a paddle this weekend put it in my life jacket's chest pocket. Battery compartment and USB were sealed and double checked. I spent about 10mn in the water with it during the day, swimming on the surface. At the end of the day, it wouldn't turn on. Opened the battery compartment to check and there were a few drops of water in there which I assume killed the device.

Called Spot today, and apparently water damage is not covered under the warranty. Kind of lame for a device that claims a waterproof rating.

477 people found this helpful

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William Navarro

Almost cost me my life

Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2019

Verified Purchase

And nearly gave my family heart attacks too. I was in a bad accident at the end of a dirt road, out of cell reception. Both shoulders and some ribs crushed, I signaled the SOS. Instead of SPOT’s team simply putting my coordinates into Google maps or some reliable mapping service and immediately seeing the ROAD that lead to me, I later found out they apparently won’t use google, or any modern mapping service. They called my emergency contacts, my brother and sister: They told my brother, 5000 miles away, in another time zone where it was the middle of the night, that I was in the middle of the Yukon River (actually about 30 miles from my actual location), and that I’d signaled the SOS. He realized that meant I had by now either drowned or gone hypothermic in the freezing waters. He stayed up all night thinking of how he’d tell my mother she no longer had her oldest son. They then called my sister and told her I was on land, but the only way I could have got to that spot was by canoe or helicopter (!!!). (She informed them I owned neither a canoe nor a helicopter.) They contacted the local search and rescue, and told them to extract me with a chopper. ($3000 bill for me.) But they don’t fly at night, so it would have to be morning. It was 10pm when I signaled. No one came by 1 AM, despite my location being a simple one hour drive down a dirt road out of town. I finally managed to use the winch to extract my ATV and get it flipped back over. (No I was not doing any extreme sports or being a daredevil, it was a very simple accident.) I’ll spare the details, but the pain was unreal, and I could not stand up, but I got on the ATV. 5 hours later I managed to get myself to the local hospital. After nearly a year of therapy, I’m able to do most things in life again. My injuries were made far worse by the fact that they went untreated for those 8 hours. And I can’t imagine how it would have looked to the rescue crew in the helicopter the next morning, when they found a dead guy AT THE END OF A ROAD that lead to town. Just imagine if I’d had a crushed lung or something worse. Buyer beware, do not think for a second that this device will save your life, or even help you under many circumstances. That is, until the SPOT team steps into last century and uses google maps to actually get your location, and then chooses to actually notify the proper authorities who can do something about it. To me, it makes so much more sense to fork up the extra $ to have a device like InReach or similar where you can send messages, like “Hey buddy, I’m at the end of this road, can you come give me a lift to the hospital ASAP please?” My choice to save a few bucks and buy a SPOT nearly lead to my death. It’s tragic the same choice for others may have killed them.

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Adrian Moore

I do not feel safe with this unit

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 17, 2017

Verified Purchase

As the title alludes to, this device is not tracking me correctly, and that on open ground on Dartmoor, with device strapped to back of rucksac.
I am currently emailing Spot for a refund on whats left of my subscription.

Even when it does work, it takes an age to track / send message.

UPDATE:
Spots customer service is almost non existent, they often do not respond to emails, and the phone number they tell you to use to cancel a subscription does not work, its always engaged, i've tried for 2 days straight at every hour of the day ( even though its meant to be a 24hr line ) ... Utterly useless, im now in contact with my credit card provider to recover the subscription and i will avoid this company, gone back to Garmin whilst more in cost, is a whole lot better to deal with! even 1star for the service ive been provided with is too much!

60 people found this helpful

Graham IoM

Very disappointing service - consigned to the bin

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 14, 2020

Verified Purchase

Think VERY carefully before deciding to purchase one of these devices, especially if you live outside the USA.
I purchased one of these for my wife to cover our need to track each other whilst doing separate wilderness adventures in New Zealand: I was doing multi-day bikepacking in areas devoid of phone coverage whilst she was doing hiking. As my activities were more frequent and risky than hers, I used a Garmin InReack Mini - and that (and the online mapping and earthmate app, worked fualtlessly and we were very impressed with this throughout.
However, the function of the Spot equivalents were frankly useless:
1. It is very fussy about being carried at the right angle etc on the body to get satellite coverage.
2. There's no meaningful battery state indication so you never really know how long it's going to last.
3. Having to remove the batteries and charge them externally is a right pain and is also very fiddly. They don't draw much attention to this fact. You will have to carry spare AAA batteries and a suitable charging unit.
4. The online mapping (i.e. using this to find where the trackee is located) is not much use, unless you are tracking someone doing a simple point to point route - as you can't easily see their current location, just a series of footprint markers.
5. The Spot App is similarly unhelpful and sluggish. Plus it just kept on crashing. Frustrating and ineffective.
6. If all you want to do is have a very basic tracking for emergencies, it just might be some use, but otherwise, you really should get a Garmin InReach instead, which, used with Earthmate. really does provide easy and reliable tracking plus 2-way SMS/email communication so that you can communicate effectively anywhere.
7. On return home, I decided to cancel the subscription and flog this in e-bay at the earliest opportunity.
8. BUT they don't support easy cancellation of the subscription! Guess what - you have to PHONE them (an expensive phone call to the US) to initiate the cancellation, plus you have to give 30 days notice, so will have to pay for another month (that's assuming you have opted for the monthly plan) that will be wasted, AND their phone line is only open on weekdays, during working time and on CST. Good luck with actually getting through to an operator! Why do they not have an online cancellation option? Pretty obvious really - they don't want you to be able to cancel easily.
Thoroughly disgusted with the product, app and service.

11 people found this helpful

T. Clark

The Best!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 8, 2016

Verified Purchase

Absolutely the best thing I have bought for hiking. For remote observation, post hike route checking or just for peace of mind - I have not seem anything that could beat it. High price - especially when you factor in the GPS subscription fees, but honestly, what price do you put on the kind of backup this give you!

The mapping tools are a bit random (there are three of them) but they all kinda work. I use the phone App mostly and that works really well in a remote observation context.

I can't recommend this highly enough - If you run Scouts, Explorers or DofE groups then this is going to change the way you run hikes and expeditions.

EDIT 2019: I have been using my Spot Gen3's (I have three of them) for several years now and my comments above still stand. Reading some of the other reviews I thought I would contribute to perhaps answer some of the negatives.

Firstly - Spot's Customer Service. Yes - Absolutely abysmal! Terrible in fact. If you want something answered then you're going to have to attack them on all fronts, website, email, social media - shout loud enough and they'll respond. Having said that, the product itself is almost bullet proof and I the years I have been using them I have only had to talk to (or attempt to) customer services twice and both times it was account related, not technical issues. So to some up - You should never need to talk to them as the device just works, but if you do... Good luck!

Second - Poor Tracking. Absolutely NOT an issue. One of the most reliable systems I've ever used. Key thing is a) line of site to the sky. I strap mine to the rucksack strap (see picture) and b) a good internet connection to see the tracks. Now if your doing remote supervision make sure you are somewhere you can get online reliably to see the tracks. One common fault is that people turn the device on and don't press the tracking button. One thing that can happen is that line of site to the satellite if obscured by heavy tree cover or by walking in deep valleys. But with three trackers running multiple events a year for 3-4 years I have never had a tracking problem that wasn't human error or terrain based.

11 people found this helpful

JulianMaurice

Does what it’s supposed to do

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 22, 2019

Verified Purchase

There isn’t a whole lot of choice when it comes to this product. It’s either this or Garmin as far as I’m concerned. This is cheaper and it does the exact same thing.

Oh and this has old school LED lights so in the dark it just looks awesome!

Ultimately you hope that you’ll never need to press ‘SOS’ but for just telling the people who love you ‘I’m Okay’ this does the job perfectly.

3 people found this helpful

Katy S

Do your research on the website prior to purchase as there are additional charges

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 18, 2019

Verified Purchase

I like the size and light weight of the product and the principle behind it i.e. ability to summon assistance when there is no phone signal. I was aware of the subscription prior to purchase, however some people may not - it's a sizeable annual sum. I was sorry to find out that some of the features only work in Canada and USA (I'm in the UK). The online and CD user guides are OK but certain aspects of the device don't appear to be covered. I've taken mine out twice when cycling and the device appears to have switched itself off when supposedly in use. I may need to contact customer service to get someone to explain how it works. I'm not the most 'techy' person so someone else may find it a doddle.

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