Magellan 310 - 4.9 in. Handheld GPS Receiver

Magellan eXplorist 310

The Magellan eXplorist 310 GPS receiver comes packed with tons of helpful features and is ready to use right out of the box.The eXplorist 310 is pre-loaded with the World Edition map, which includes a complete road network in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, and Australia and major roads throughout the rest of the world. This unique preloaded map also includes water features, urban and rural land use, and city centers. Regional versions of Magellan?s Summit Series topographic maps are available for download to expand mapping coverage and level of detail.A vibrant, transflective color screen allows for the best readability in direct sunlight. To zero in on the exact location of a geocache, favorite fishing spot, or the next summit, the SiRFstarIII GPS chipset provides accuracy of 10-15 feet (3-5 meters). To keep your outdoor adventure going all day long, the device is powered by two AA batteries for 18 hours of constant usage. The eXplorist 310 is rugged, waterproof, and submersible (IPX-7). All of this is packed into a small and attractive handheld form factor that can be hung around your neck with the optional Magellan lanyard or attached to your pack with the built-in carabineer hook.The eXplorist 310 provides unmatched assistance with navigation, such as the combination of the world?s two most useful navigational tools - a compass and a map! Overlay a series of different transparent compass styles on top of a pre-loaded worldwide map that show roads, water features, parks, and city centers. Access the dashboard screen that shows a mini-compass for quick reference and customizable navigation data fields, such as latitude, longitude, heading, bearing, distance to end, trip odometer, and many more. Go back to the map screen and view your active track, which is a series of digital breadcrumbs to record all yours movements. Mark your starting point (car, trailhead, parking lot...) with a waypoint and easily navigate back to that location at the end of the day.The eXplorist 310 supports paperless geocaching, which allows you to download more than 20 unique characteristics of each cache, including name, location, description, hider, size, difficulty, terrain, hint, spoilers, attributes, and last 20 user logs among a number of other details. Reference your track summary to keep track of your distance travelled, elevation gained or lost, complete travel time, moving time and stopped time, and average time to find. Easily reset your track summary statistics to track the details of your next geocaching adventure.No matter where you enjoy the outdoors, the eXplorist 310 GPS receiver will provide precise GPS signals thanks to the Satellite Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS) of WAAS, EGNOS, and MSAS; display coordinates in a myriad of different global systems, including UTM and WGS84; and accurately guide you to and from your next adventure, where ever in the world that may be!FeaturesEasy to Navigate Menus and Rich GraphicsA simple main menu, intuitive contextual menus, and vibrant graphics make this device easy to useBrilliant, sunlight readable color screenA vibrant 2.2" color transflective screen provides the best readability in direct sunlightRugged and waterproof to IPX-7 standardsFocus on the adventure not protecting the deviceHigh- sensitivity SiRFstarIII GPS with 3-5 meter accuracy3-5 meter GPS accuracy provides a superior navigation experiencePre- loaded World Edition MapReferencing a complete road network in North America and Western Europe and major roads throughout the rest of the populated world to help in orientation. See parks, rivers, lakes, major city points, and other types of land use areas.18 Hours of battery life using 2 AA batteriesGo strong for an entire day (or more). No stopping to replace the batteries. Suspend ModeThe goal is to conserve battery life by putting the device into an advanced power saving mode. Suspend mode will turn off everything expect for GPS tracking. Wake up the device with a singl