Customer Reviews

Magellan GPS 300 2.2-Inch Portable GPS Navigator

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The Magellan 300 is a good GPS for begginers . It is inexpensive and has a good battery life (as long as the backlight isn't used often). It is waterproof and very durable. The Magellan 300 is a good GPS .

This is my first gps it has around 13-14 years in my own, it's a excelent gps fishing and hiking.

Pros:
Lighweight
Fits very well in my hand
Uses AA batteries instead of rechargeable ones, so if you ran out of batteries but you can use rechargeable ones.
The batteries compartment is water proof
When the unit gets warm and you are in a open area it will take less than three minutes to the gps to track your position
Easy to use
Cons:
Maybe in cold weather it will take a little bit of time to acquire enough satellites to track your position
If there are no enough satellites you will lose the info about your actual position.

NOTE: This GPS is designed to be used with maps and it has two options for the maps: WGS84 and NAD27 (fabric configuration). For the coordinates you have three options: 1 deg/mins,deg/mins/secs and UTM (Universal Transverce Mercator). For the north refence you have two options: magnetic or true (geografic). Speed units you have three options: Knots MPH and KPH, when you select the MPH option distance and velocity units will be imperial, in KPH will be metric units and Knots will be in nautic miles (speed and velocity).

You can use the gps without an active route, in the batteries compartment there's a screw with a small loop which you can use to hand a strap to hold your GPS while you are walking or use to hang it.

The Magellan 300 is a good GPS for begginers . It is inexpensive and has a good battery life (as long as the backlight isn't used often). It is waterproof and very durable. The Magellan 300 is a good GPS .