eXplorist 500 LE Handheld GPS Unit
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Brand: Magellan
Features:
* Special outlet purchase.
* Satisfaction Ensured.
* High quality.
Sales Rank: 43213
The built-in color map of North America makes it easy to view roads, rivers, waterways, greenways, city centers, airports and other major points of interest. Save 5 track logs, 20 routes and 500 points of interest to the 8 MB available internal memory. Store an unlimited amount of data on your own SD cards. The Magellan Geocache Manager enables you to download coordinates from the Internet directly to your eXplorist 500 and the PC-style file system makes it easy to manage all your data. Easily add detailed MapSend maps for topographic or marine navigation and turn-by-turn street guidance. Intelligently designed for comfortable right or left handed use, the clearly marked keypad provides one-touch access to all your most important features. Joystick controller makes scrolling the simple menus fun and easy. The large color display is easy-to-read day or night. Customizable navigation screens show your location, speed, direction, and distance to destination and more, just the way you want it. Slip your compact (2.2 in x 4.7 in) eXplorist into your pocket and let it guide you on every outdoor adventure. Magellan TrueFixTM technology provides superior accuracy and reliability, giving you the freedom to explore without concern of getting lost. Your eXplorist 500 is lightweight and pocket-sized so you can take it with you everywhere. The eXplorist 500LE does not include a Li-ion battery or AC adapter but offers all the great GPS features and functions of the eXplorist 500 for
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Unit seems great, but...
I rec'd an Explorist 500 LE for Xmas. Right off the bat I've been pretty thrilled with it. It does its job great! Its fairly intuitive and easy to use. Accuracy is amazing!
BUT...
1) Its a battery hog. 3 Alkaline AAA's last about 6 hours. 8 hours with lights and alarms off. Titanium batteries are 5 hours better Lithium will give you 16.
2) You have to purchase every scrap of software that's "included" at $149.99 a pop. Included is not what it seems.
3) "No access fees" to what exactly I don't know.
4) Product documentation and support is a joke. The USB cable is proprietary instead of a regular mini and the mounting port is ambiguous so that attachment of the cable can help but be wrong. You end up calling support, yes India, and it took six phone calls and 12 hours for them to tell me my cable was upside down.
Tt seems to be a great functioning unit, but I believe I really would have rather had a Garmin eTrex. Watch out for the misleading product packaging and bait and switch accessories offer.
