I somehow overlooked some of your previous reply there on page one.
Warranty is a year in Australia too. It’s been about nine weeks I’ve had it, and I’m exactly as forgiving and flexible with
warranty period as the manufacturer is, which is not at all, as evidenced quite recently on their Facebook page with regard
to people's fitness watches that have broken shortly after the warranty expired.
The real question is: Why would someone not take it back if it can’t perform it’s expected function out of the box?
For me, the answer was that I though I’d held onto it for too long, but have found out in my country, that’s not the case:
https://www.moneysmart.gov.au/media/347 ... rights.pdf
It says you can return for refund (not repair or replacement) if the unit can’t perform an expected function.
For me, it crashes when moving about the map here in the house, and will be easy to demonstrate.
It could only be worse if it had to maintain a track log as well, while using it on a proper hike.
At least in Australia, anyone having an issue with a 66, who also has another backup device, has no reason not to take
it back that I can see, so long as they are guaranteed a refund (rather than repair or replacement).
There’s nothing to suggest the next firmware will fix a particular problem, even if a new version is supposedly coming soon.
So as far as I can tell, it would make perfect sense to return it, and perhaps buy a brand new one with full 12 month warranty
when or if other people start reporting that at least the most critical of bugs are taken care of.
All of the risk might as well be palmed off to the manufacturer rather than the customer.
Even if a new firmware that fixes everything comes out the next day, it only takes a drive to the retailer to get a new one.
That is now my plan.