Magellan Gps Blazer12 Waterproof Hiking

Magellan Explorist 510 Waterproof Hiking Handheld GPS The Magellan Explorist 510 Handheld GPS combines sophisticated technology with a robust and rugged design. It is a very receptive Handheld GPS, navigation capacity and easy to read maps. Magellan Explorist 510 - Our Opinion: Having read the reviews on this product, they are actually positive. All of the Amazon reviews except for one are the greatest or most complete or best possible 5* rating, the other being a 4* rating. Let's deal with the 4* first, reason being is that the reviewer would have preferent to have an integrated radio on the unit. So now to the 5* reviews, the mutual threads of positive remarks are that the product is well built, is easy to use, waterproof, is accurate, good looking, reliable, and very good features. Magellan Explorist 510 - Features: You may generate waypoints, record routes and tracks, and for geocaching fanciers there is something for you too. You may receive pleasure from paperless geocaching, when you download you may see over 20 exclusive features of each cache, and be capable to search, filter and view. Some of the details you may view include location, name, hider, description, terrain, difficulty, hint, and recent geocacher logs. The maps are accurate, the World Edition map may permits 2d and 3d observing angles. You will be competent to view finish road networks in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Western Europe, other points of interest such as water features, rural and urban land. The dependable and easy to use three inch touch screen and interface is sunlight readable so it simple to interpret in almost any environment. The display allows you to merely tap on the menu and this will disclose the menu items, then merely roll over your chosen icon and you will find out more details and information. You also have two programmable hard buttons which may be directly linked to your most used, or favourite two functions. Magellan's OneTouch favorites menu gives you direct links on to your bookmarks of individualized searches and your favourite places. Other features of the Magellan Explorist 510 Waterproof Hiking GPS Navigation system are the integral 3.2 mega-pixel camera, so you may take photo's whilst you are out enjoying your routes and trails, and you may record the emplacement of the photo's for future reference. The speaker and microphone concede you to record voice notes and effigy referencing, you may geo-tag your multimedia content too. It functions with two AA batteries and ought to last in the region of 15 hours under regular conditions. However, you may operate the suspend mode to support save power, this turns off the unit but it still proceeds GPS tracking. The Magellan Explorist 510 is robust, and water proof by design, it may withstand being in water up to meter deep for up to 30 minutes and is tested to IPX-7 standards, so an accidental drop in a puddle ought to not affect it in the slightest! ReviewMagellan's GPS 315 doesn't have a lot of modern features, but it does provide positional and directional readings exact sufficient to help you find your way back to base camp when you're out in the woods. This portable international positioning system is one of the most compact we've ever tested, and it features a crisp display for the pages of data it throws at users. The GPS 315 is designed more for outdoor use than car navigation and doesn't display road maps. It does have a database of over 15,000 cities and the capability to receive up to 500 user-defined waypoints, so it still works somewhat well for giving you bearings to the next town or point of interest. We used the tracking features extensively, which let us leave a "bread crumb" trail as we traveled. This was in particular helpful when we were backtracking along the same route, as we were capable to effortlessly compare our current position with the trail on the display. The display has two levels of backlighting, a feature that drains the unit's two AA batteries at a dreadful rate. However, without the backlight on, we got more than 12 hours of use from the unit. The GPS 315 uses simple controls that let users page through it is a great deal of data screens. As long as we were moving the compass, the screens worked well; we peculiarly liked the graphical compass that pointed out our current direction of travel and the bearing to a waypoint at the same time. The device may also serve as a full-fledged trip computer, measuring distance, intermediate speed, and providing an approximated time of arrival. Perhaps the best thing regarding the GPS 315 is that all the info screens are entirely customizable, letting users develop their own data pages containing only the info they want to see. Although Magellan doesn't include a lot of goodies in the box, the GPS 315 has a great deal of optional accessaries that increase it is capabilities. For example, you may get a PC cable to upload topographical and street map data. Without all the extras the GPS 315 is better suitable for hikers and boaters than highway travelers, but it's an exact and inexpensive way to keep your bearings. --T. Byrl Baker Pros: Clear, high-resolution screen Customizable data pages Great accuracy Relatively inexpensive Cons: No road maps or other elaborate selective information included No built-in routing capacity Magellan Gps Blazer12 Waterproof Hiking Photo Magellan Gps Blazer12 Waterproof Hiking Photo Magellan Gps Blazer12 Waterproof Hiking Pic Magellan Gps Blazer12 Waterproof Hiking Picture Magellan Gps Blazer12 Waterproof Hiking Photo Magellan Gps Blazer12 Waterproof Hiking Image

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275 of 278 persons found the following review helpful.
The best value for cash GPS available - superb acquistion a
By A
The Magellan GPS 315 and 320 are outstanding units. What may be unclear at basi sight, is that these units are identical, differing only in the fact that the 315 database has more land based locations, while the 320 has more nautical ones. All these may be altered by way of CDROM anyway. Hence the price divergence is accounted for only by the fact that the 320 already comes with a PC connector + power supply cable for car use. In the field, satellite acquisition is fast and reliable, even mounted on a car dashboard with no antenna. Having employed the 320 for galore time, I cannot think of any extra functionality which needs to be added. The software is without doubt or question the result of actual field tryouts and offers 9 practical and utile navigation screens which are quick to access and intuitive to understand. For newcomers, I would commend 1-2 days navigating in your local park in order to decently perceive the big number of menus available. You do not want to be guessing for the duration of a real trip. For example, invoking the BackTrack option may give rise to a huge number of waypoints. At first, I found it rather tedious to delete these after use. Later I learned that a Clear Memory option does this with one keystroke - very neat. These units are effortlessly superior to comparable Garmin 12 models - principally due to their much higher solution displays and light weight. The Garmin displays are comparatively coarse until you consider the much more highpriced models. I can not imagine navigating throughout land or sea now without one of these Magellan units for backup. In fact, they are such a joy to use that the map and compass have a tendancy closely not to be applied - though you would be wise never to be without the latter.

130 of 132 people found the following review helpful.
Magellan 315 vs. Garmin 12
By P. Heath
Having thought long and hard over my buy and physically employed a lot of models and makes of GPS it is hard to say which is best as they all seem to have positive and negative aspects.

I'll compare the Magellan 315/320 to a Garmin 12/12XL as this is it's most likely competition. (The Garmin 12XL is significantly more expensive).

The Magellan has a far better screen (more pixels hence finer detail and varying levels of grey/black for graphics) and offers customisable displays not seen in the Garmin(you may choose what info you want to see and what screens you want made available from a choice of nine). A GPS compass only works when you are moving so that if you stop and turn around it will no longer point correctly. The Magellan compass screen shows where the sun/moon will have to be on the horizon so that you may orientate yourself; this proves exceedingly utile and is not available on the Garmin. However on the map screen the Magellan does not concede you to modify zoom levels as well as pan over other areas of the map, meaning that you cannot zoom in to look in detail anyplace other than your present emplacement - making the screen far less utile (Garmin may pan and zoom).

Both units may display all the same data (e.g. Heading, Bearing, Speed, Lat/Long, Time to Go, etc.)and store more waypoints and routes than most people would use. The Magellan's and Garmin 12XL likewise have a directory of updateable cities (315/12XL) and nautical navigation points (320). [Anyone taking into account the Garmin Etrex must note that it does not have a number of utile features seen on these models and has an irritating screen that only shows one item of data at a time so requires uninterrupted button pressing].

Satellite lock on times and performance are the same with the Garmin being very somewhat more quickly but both as exact and ceaseless as each other. Only the Garmin 12XL has an external antenna port (especially utile for vehicles even though all will work well sufficient if positioned under the windshield). Special re-amplifying antennas work with all models. The cited figures for battery times are Magellan's 15 hours (using 2x AA batteries) and the Garmin 12, 24 hours (using 4x AA batteries). The Magellan is lighter to carry. Both makes are easy to use once you are intimate with them even though the Magellan's manual seems to have been written by an individual who was not!

Final test, hold it in your hand thoroughly and closely question or examine it, press all the buttons - the Magellan does not seem to have rather as good build quality as the Garmin.

In summary the two makes are very similar in performance but the Magellan does offer more utile features and a nicer display for your cash with two batteries rather of four. The Garmin offers better reliability and build quality....... But surely the Magellan will be fine! So I purchased the Magellan 315 and broke it within three days by getting it wet!

As I wait for a alternate unit from Magellan I think I am rectify in saying none of the GPS available are as good as they could be. What I genuinely need is Magellan features on a Garmin!

115 of 121 humans found the following review helpful.
GPS 315 good but has big problems
By W. A. Freeman Jr.
I purchased the GPS 315 in December after using another brand for five years. The GPS315 represents a big betterment with better, more quickly satelite acquistion, a compass screen that is ingenuous permitting the user to use the sun or moon to rectify bearing. This way the user is not having to pull out a compass to check bearing. Additional sum totals are it is little size and light weight using only two AA batteries lasting up to 15 hours. If weight is a concern, that is big. My former unit used four and lasted five hours. Problems: The manual is as sorry as it may get. It hardly covers TrackRoute, Track History, Backtrack, and Reverse Route. These are major essential features left to the user to figure out. I have yet to figure them out consistently. With Track History there seems to be an capacity to set a scale, but what scale? Nothing tells me. Is it how often times it records a waypoint in history?

I have emailed the company with questions twice, called once (had to leave a voice mail because they were not taking calls), faxed once. Heard not one thing from their client no-service. I wrote them yesterday to give them my thoughts. Oh yes, my GPS 315 crashed and had to be substituted last week after it was three weeks old. Glad I wasn't in the middle of 40,000 acres. You can't zoom in on a waypoint if it is very far away from your current location. Actually to do so but you have to set a scale of .1 or .2 and Pan & Scan to it. If is is 50 miles away, you may imagine how long that could take.

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