Garmin has long been a leader in innovative GPS
products. Its list of products covers many areas such
as marine, aircraft, recreation and mobile uses. My two
Garmin GPS devices are very capable and perform very well,
and their customer service while pricey, is fast.
Recently Garmin
introduced two recreational
products named the "Rino
110" and "Rino 120". These are small
FRS/GMRS radios with an integrated GPS. Both radios
have APRS position reporting capabilities that similar to
Amateur Radio's APRS protocol.
Users of the Rino
110, or 120 can beam their position to other Rino users and
their radio position will display itself on the receiving
radio's map display. Rino 120 users have a built in
base map of roads and 8MB of memory to load maps from various
Garmin map collections.
Here is the
information page on Rino 110:https://www.garmin.com/products/rino/
Suggested price: $194.27
Various Map screen for the
Rino 110:
https://www.garmin.com/products/rino/screen.html
Here is the information page
on Rino 120:
https://www.garmin.com/products/rino120/ 
Suggested price: $267.84
Various Map screens for the
Rino 120:
https://www.garmin.com/products/rino120/screen.html
Position Reporting Feature
is shown here: https://www.garmin.com/products/rino/positionReport.html
What is interesting about this GPS/Radio device is
the trend of how the technology is being married
together. APRS users have long ago found how useful its
position reporting can be in events and while traveling, but
until now the closest amateur
gear we've seen to allowing appliance
style APRS has been from Kenwood with their TM-D700A and
TH-D7A(g) radios. Both Kenwood radios make running APRS
simple. Not only that, these Kenwood Radio/TNC devices
perform very well in a wide range of conditions where the
more complicated TNC devices can't function well.
If Garmin's product
introduction is indicative of what is coming
in the future, then I suspect we'll see amateur
gear with similar capabilities before too long.
What does Rino mean?
Garmin created the name as an acronym for Radio Integrated
Navigation Outdoors.
Our ability to get
coordinated and locate is growing.