Magellan eXplorist 500 Europe
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Magellan eXplorist 500 Europe

GPS receiver - Hiking

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Navigate in color! The 16-color display of the Magellan eXplorist 500 enables you to see where you are in vivid color. With a high-speed USB data port and unlimited data storage...
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Magellan Explorist 500 Europe
Review of Magellan eXplorist 500 Europe by niglom

Advantages: Size, speed, colours, waterproof, SD slot
Disadvantages: Reliance on poor Magellan Maps, no third party support

...as any other Garmin or Magellan unit. It will also give you an accurate reading of latitude and longitude or OS grid reference. But what's the use of a 16 colour TFT screen if the map on it doesn't use any of the colours? Now this is when I bought the additional Magellan Mapsend Topo GB map for an extra £125. This promised:- "Map detail at 1:50,000 resolution include elevations, woodlands, parks, nature reserves, lakes, rivers, roads, motorways, ...
...waterways paths and tracks appear at 1:10,000 resolution for fun and easy navigation in the outdoors" The bad news is the roads and tracks aren't accurate they're not where they say they are and they're shown as a dotted black line regardless of them being a public footpath, a bridle way, a road used a public pathway (RUPP) or even a road!. The woodlands are rectangular blocks of green and in no way representative of their true geographical position. ... Read review

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Magellan eXplorist 500 Europe

General

MPN: 980771-12, 980771-113

Product Type: GPS receiver

Width: 5.6 cm

Depth: 3.3 cm

Height: 11.9 cm

Weight: 153 g, 116 g

Localisation: Europe

Gps system

Recommended Use: Hiking

Receiver: 14 channel

SBAS: WAAS, EGNOS

Accuracy:

  • Position - 3 m ( with WAAS )
  • Position - 7 m, Position - 3 m ( with WAAS )

Update Rate: 1/second

Grids: German, UTM, Irish, MGRS, Swiss, Swedish, Finnish, USNG, French, OSGB, Lat/Lon, German, UTM, Irish, MGRS, Swiss, Swedish, Finnish, USNG, French, OSGB, Lat/Lon, User

Connectivity: USB

GPS Functions / Services: Electronic compass, bearing, distance, elevation, heading, ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival), speed, ETE (Estimated Time Enroute), time/date, Bearing, distance, elevation, heading, ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival), speed, ETE (Estimated Time Enroute), time/date

Aerial: Built-in

Built-in Memory: 16 MB, 8 MB

Maps Included: Europe

Acquisition times

Cold: 120 seconds

Warm: 60 sec

Hot: 15 sec

Navigation

Waypoints: 500

Tracks: 5

Tracklog Points: 2000

Routes: 20

Trip Computer: Trip distance, TracBack, trip distance

Built-in display

Type: LCD

Display Illumination: Yes

Colour Support: Colour

Display Menu Language: English, German, French, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Finnish, Swedish, Spanish, Dutch

Diagonal Size: 2.3"

Resolution: 160 x 120

Manufacturer's product description

Navigate in color! The 16-color display of the Magellan eXplorist 500 enables you to see where you are in vivid color. With a high-speed USB data port and unlimited data storage capacity via secure digital (SD) card expandability, you can easily add detailed street maps, topo or lake maps from optional Magellan MapSend software. eXplorist 500 is lightweight and pocket-sized so you can take it with you everywhere. The Magellan Geocache Manager enables you to download caches directly to your eXplorist 500 and the PC-style file system helps you to easily manage all of your data. 8 MB of built-in maps and an intuitive interface make it easy to start navigating right out of the box. Save 5 track log files, 20 routes and 500 points of interest to the 8 MB of additional internal memory, but store as many as you want on optional SD cards. You get all this and more, plus color!

Connections

Connector Type: Serial - USB

Slot provided

Slot Provided: SD Memory Card

Battery

Battery Enclosure Type: Integrated, Internal

Technology: Lithium Ion

Run Time (Up To): 17 hour(s)

Required Qty: 3

Form Factor: AAA type

Miscellaneous

Design Features: Rugged case

Waterproof: Yes

Waterproof Standard: IPX7

Environmental parameters

Min Operating Temperature: -10 °C

Max Operating Temperature: 60 °C

Manufacturer warranty

Service & Support: 2 years warranty

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