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Recreational GPS Receiver With Built-In Maps And Color LCD Display

Now, every journey you take with the Magellan eXplorist 500 offers a new adventure full of colorful sights and sounds. This handheld, pocket-sized GPS receiver shows your way on vibrant full-color, built-in maps. It's easy to add more topo or detailed street maps with SD card expandability, and the rechargeable Li-Ion battery pack lasts all day.

eXplore In Color

See where you are in vivid color! The Magellan eXplorist 500's 16-color LCD display will brighten all your outdoor adventures. You can easily add as many other maps--beyond the 8 MB internal memory capacity--as you wish from optional (not included) MapSend software thanks to a high-speed, USB data port and unlimited data storage by SD (Secure Digital) card expandability. For great GPS mapping capabilities, the eXplorist 500 is there to help you carry out the greatest outdoor expeditions and travels with ease and expertise. TrueFix GPS technology uses up to 14 parallel channels, supported by WAAS and EGNOS satellite-based augmentation systems, to provide you with fast, accurate location information. With reporting accuracy as good as (or better than) three meters from your current position, this model provides all the functions and features an avid outdoor person, or travel enthusiast, needs to get around the planet with reliability.

Don't Limit Your Adventures

A built-in 8 MBs of North American and European maps permits you to navigate smartly while viewing roads, parks, waterways, airports, and more. With internal storage for up to 20 routes and 500 waypoints for each of those routes, you have the freedom to explore back roads, or backcountry with ease. And SD card expandability provides unlimited storage for unlimited journeys. Track Logging allows you to keep up to five logs, with 2,000 individual points for each. It's comforting to know that with this feature you can find your way back from any marked position. And with the BackTrack feature that automatically saves positions as you're travelling, you can follow your exact trail back. Imagine the possibilities! When you find a particularly good spot, the handy Points-of-Interest Feature allows you to visit it again and again. By marking several different locations with selected icons you can remember each one. This is handy, for example, during camping trips when you might mark the campfire with one icon, the car location with another, and your secret fishing spot with another. Then, you can easily navigate between the points during this trip, or the one next year.

Travelling Over Land, Water? No Problem

Like Magellan's other GPS units, this one is unbelievably manageable with an intuitive menu system, easy-to-read backlit, color LCD display, and one-button access. This GPS unit is so easy to operate, in fact, that it can be done in the dark--with the backlighting feature, of course. This feature lets your eyes comfortably see both the navigator and the darkened path in front of you with a soft amber glow so you don't have to struggle with focusing between bright light and darkness. Part of the general operation ease comes from the four Navigation Screens that display the same information, only in different formats so you can choose the one that works best for your needs at that moment. The Map Screen displays you, your position, and the background map data. And, a really exciting feature of this model is that it can be changed to a screen for land or marine use. This means you can keep track of your trail over both water and land in one easy screen, or switch to a preferred one. Then, there's the super-easy Zoom feature that lets you change the map scale so you can see as much, or as little, of the map as you need in order to navigate. And finally, to make it is easy for just you, you can choose the general information you most often want displayed by customizing the selections at the bottom of the LCD screen. Select from: bearing, distance, speed, heading, ETA (estimated time of arrival) ETE (estimated time enroute), elevation, time, date. You can also change map orientation (North up is the default) when it's more convenient for you to have an alternative orientation.

Where Do You Want To GOTO?

One of the most popular features on the eXplorist 500 is the GOTO routing. This is computed as a straight line from where you are to where you want to go, and is as simple as pressing the GOTO button and selecting your destination from the points-of-interest database. Then, as you move, the GPS unit constantly calculates and displays new positions, headings, and speed. It also constantly computes a direct line from your present position to the destination. To provide you with detailed data about your exact location and destination, the eXplorist 500 uses information from GPS satellites to compute your present position. You can view graphical representations of those satellites and their signal status at any time by switching to the Satellite Status Screen.

eXplore Geocaching

There's a new treasure hunting game for the 21st century--geocaching. Using a GPS receiver and a set of coordinates for the location of a cache, you and other players go out and look for caches of goodies hidden by other geocachers. If one of the goodies (dangerous or illegal items are against the rules) appeals to you, you can take it--provided you leave another goodie in its place. Location coordinates for geocaches are posted on the Internet. When you find one in your area, the Magellan Geocache Manager lets you download the cache directly to your eXplorist 500 and the PC-style file system helps you manage all your data easily. You don't have to be a geocacher to appreciate the Geocache Manager's organizing ability, but why not give the game a try?

Small And Tough

This unit's compact size lets you tuck it away in your pocket, while its rubber-armored design makes it durable enough to keep out all the time. Additionally, the eXplorist 500 is waterproof (one meter depth for 30 minutes). To save you power for when you need it most, the Power Timer automatically turns the eXplorist off when none of the buttons has been pressed for a time you can select (5, 10, 30, or 60 minutes). This helps conserve your battery life, as the most severe drain on the batteries is the use of the LCD display backlight; but with up to 17 hours of continuous use available from the rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery pack, you may well run out of power before your eXplorist does.

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Unit, USB Cable, AC Cable, Read Me First Guide, User Manual On CD-ROM

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