Shopping CartMagellan eXplorist 610 Waterproof Hiking GPS
date : December 5th, 2011Handheld GPS
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Tags : eXplorist, Hiking, Magellan, Waterproof
Features For Magellan eXplorist 610 Waterproof Hiking GPS
- Rugged, waterproof outdoor GPS with three-inch touchscreen and button controls
- 3.2 megapixel camera, microphone, and speaker to record geo-referenced images and voice notes
- World Edition preloaded map and Summit series USA topographic mapping
- Barometric altimeter and three-axis electronic compass for accurate altitude, weather, and directional info
- Powered by two AA batteries for up to 16 hours of use
Description For Magellan eXplorist 610 Waterproof Hiking GPS
Rugged and waterproof (IPX-7), the eXplorist 610 combines high sensitivity GPS reception with easy to read mapping and accurate navigation. Find your way using more than 30 navigational data fields! Create waypoints, record tracks, and route from point to point. The integrated 3.2 mega-pixel camera, microphone, and speaker enable outdoor enthusiasts to record geo-referenced images and voice notes. Relive your outdoor adventures on the device, on your computer, or share with others on various online communities like geocaching.com. Enjoy paperless geocaching with the eXplorist 610. Download and view more than 20 unique characteristics of each cache and view, search, filter on the device. Details include name, location, description, hider, size, difficulty, terrain, hint, and recent logs created by other geocachers. The eXplorist 610 packs the most accurate maps into the palm of your hand. The World Edition map allows for 2D or 3D viewing angles. It includes a complete road network in Un
List Price: $ 449.99
Price: $ 449.99
First impressions vs Oregon 450t,
I never got to use the Oregon much and just got this unit so I don’t have much information to go as far as functionality goes. Sorry
I recently lost my Oregon 450t and decided to replace it with the eXplorist 610 mostly because of the included 1:24000 topo maps.
The included Summit Serier maps on the eXplorist are a huge improvement over the Garmin’s 1:100k maps. The shaded relief is nice and they look much more like USGS maps with more detail. Since I got the unit(s) primarily for hiking this is a huge plus for me.
Initial quality: I would give the nod to the Oregon 450t. The alloy frame has a good feel vs the plastic on the eXplorist. In reality there’s probably no difference in durability as far as materials go. The eXplorist does feel really solid and a giant leap above past Magellan eXplorists I’ve handled which had shoddy battery doors etc.
I had an eXplorist XL which was reliable and is still going (a family member has it) but lack of support for Vista and Windows 7 makes it tough on geocachers. Magellan’s support in the past has been pretty sad. Let’s hope the new owners improve support as much as they have build quality.
The touch screen is more responsive than the Garmin. It looks a good bit more crisp and clear than the Garmin and seems as readable in direct sunlight. I wish I had both units side by side to compare as this is a major concern with high res color displays.
The menu’s seem better to me than the Garmin also. This is probably preference as different people expect different things in terms of layout but for me the Magellan has the better menu structure.
Camera quality is pretty much like cell phone pics. Don’t expect great pics but they look acceptable taken in a well lit office and viewed on a LCD computer monitor. It does record video also which I didn’t see mentioned in the literature.
I wish I could give the geocachers and avid hikers more inforamtion on ease of use for each scenario but I can’t.
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|Great unit for hiking/geocaching,
I’ve had this unit for a while now and am extremely pleased with it. I had been using an older SporTrak Pro for many years and was being lured towards upgrading to a Garmin because of the ability to download custom maps into them. That changed when I started using this unit – the topo map quality (and pre-loaded street maps, for that matter) are nothing short of impressive. The kicker for me was having the detailed trail maps of the state parks in my area which was what I had been looking for in a new unit.
The camera quality is good. Perfect for hiking/geocaching and taking pictures while on the go. It allows you to attach the picture to your tracks or a location/cache for easy reference later which make caching much easier when you need to take pictures to go along with you log.
The paperless caching is awesome, replacing the Palm that I had been using for the past 6 years. Having the full descriptions, hints, logs, etc. at your fingertips is great.
I’ve found the unit to be very accurate with little of the historic “Magellan boomerang” when approaching “Ground Zero”.
The menu is easy to navigate and it allows you to customize your own short-cuts to your most frequently-used functions.
All in all, a GPS that I would highly recommend for anybody looking for a solid unit that has enhanced features.
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|Big dissapointment,
We geocache and wanted to upgrade so choose the Magellan explorist 610. It had everything we wanted in a GPS. The down side was it was so difficult to use the touch screen. Both of us tried to use the ‘convient’ touch screen but it needs a newborns finger or a stylus to work easily. We would touch the screen to navigate and it would jump around to what we didn’t want because we touched a little of the wrong icon. Moving the screen to see the entire amount of information DISASTER every single time. The potential with the unit sounded so great but accuracy… even after calibration had us 200′ away from our destinations. When it said to 150 N to destination and that was 100 feet into a lake, that was it. Back in the box. We were both disappointed with the actual using the unusable touch screen and with the accuracy problem. This was not the unit upgrade we could use, potential yes but actual using in the field a disappointment.
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