Key Features and Benefits: 2.7" (6.9 cm) QVGA full-color touch-screen display - the first handheld GPS that allows users to interact directly with maps and menus LED flashlight - illuminates the darkness for added convenience at night Embedded speaker and microphone - enable users to record audio files they can associate with geographic locations What's Included: Magellan Triton 1500 2 x battery USB cable
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Brand | Magellan |
Item model number | 1500 |
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Product Id | 944134 |
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User Reviews and Ratings | 3 (1 ratings) 3 out of 5 stars |
UPC | 763357115437 |
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Magellan has worked out all the bugs (finally) and the Triton is now a rock solid unit. Its almost fully paperless (no logs) but that's not a big deal for me since I use Cacheberry on my Blackberry, which can hold an unlimited about of caches BTW, very cool. The Tritons are very easy to use since they don't have a lot of extra screens that some other GPS'r have. Pretty basic, no non-sense units. The computer software is called VantagePoint and its pretty much drag and drop. I download a 500-cache pocket query, drag it into the VantagePoint window and click the sync button. It doesn't get any easier than that.
This unit looks very good on paper but it took me about one day to realize that it was a disappointment. I found the screen to be very difficult to read and the availability of maps to load were dismal for my needs. They must have an agreement with National Geographic, because unless you wanted to load on marine maps, your only options seem to be National Geographic maps purchased one state at a time ($$). Beautiful but limited for travelling around and extra expense. Those two things were deal-breakers for me. That said, it seemed to be pretty accurate and their attempt to help you go paperless with geocaching (you can load all of the geocaching info directly to the unit) was nice. Too bad I couldn't see the screen very well..... needless to say, even though I did a bunch of research and thought this was the one for me, I already returned it. I'm shopping for a Garmin Colorado or Oregon now.