Magellan eXplorist 200 Water Resistant Hiking GPS
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Customer Review: Great Product
Summary: 5 Stars
Very user friendly. Great reception. Rugged disign. Im a tech. for Verizon Wireless and im use to see phones come across my counter beat up, scratched up, and just down right abused. This GPS is one tough little monkey. I use it mainly for geocaching and while in the woods or on a trial, I've slide down a couple hills in the mud or snow. Usually the first think I think is ouch, but the second thing I think is that I may just have wrecked my Gps. Not yet. As I said this guy is tough. I highly recomend the explorist 200. With the preloaded road maps its gives me a good guest as to where I am when I start to lose my direction on the road or in the woods.Customer Review: Not for travelling hiways and biways
Summary: 5 Stars
5 stars for trail use, 0 for travelling roads. while this gadget would work well for trekking offroad, its not great for roads.
Dont get this thinking your going to use it to navigate roadways.
While it does show interstates etc it does not map your route, so you better know how to get where your going already. It simply draws a straight line from point A to point B and indicates where you are.
The menus are also to slow to navigate, I drive for a living an need fast inputs, I need to put in street address's not just a city. I work long hrs and need an external power source as well. There is no connectivty to palm or laptop.
Customer Review: Superb quality! Great buy!
Summary: 4 Stars
You will not find a better built and performing entry level Gps for the money. I have always been pleased with the 200 and found that while geocaching it's simple to operate and easy to carry around. Small things like being able to float and the rubber armor are nice. The only two things that come to mind I wish the 200 had, is a dc power connection and more detailed maps (why I gave it a 4). Other than that, can't beat it. If you find yourself needing better maps and dc power you will have to upgrade to another level of Gps such as the Explorist 210,400 and above.Customer Review: Crash Test Dummy
Summary: 2 Stars
In Dec 04 received one as a present. In June 05 it started shutting off on its own and then stopped turning on all together. Lost a weeks worth of sailing and diving in the Bahamas. Returned it to the store, bought a new one. It was handy and familiar thought I would give it another try. Since then it has dumped my saved Points of Interest THREE times. Now the other day it crashed and defaulted to to a screen called "Burn In Test". Fortunately it did this after I copied off my latest Points of Interest. Now I have a Garmin eTrek Legend.Customer Review: Explorist 200
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm very pleased with this GPS unit.It's extremely sensitive, measuring your speed, direction and distance not only while in a moving vehicle, but even when walking which surprised me for an item of that price. While the map may not show your side street,I found that it shows the major freeways, thruways and main state and county roads. It even names airports (small and large} and creeks. It also lets you set waypoints and shows turns while plotting a route. Someday I'll have to read the manual to see what else it does.