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Magellan eXplorist 500

Wednesday August 20, 2008
Written by Johnathan Bray
Tags: Magellan | eXplorist | 500
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$329
Price at time of review.
Easy to use and performs well. Features are basic but it’s cheap
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totoaus
Aug 29, 2008 11:41 PM
 1. Magellan does make other products with the features you think this lacks. Like the competition, the features cost money, so they take away the price advantage you treasure here.
2. Magellan is a specialist GPS company owned by Thales (a European satellite and defence company as I recall), with a long history in boating, military, mining and surveying. In comparison, Garmin (for example) has a wide range of electronics products (radio, navigation and also GPS). Both companies products will reflect their heritage: Magellan in relaible, solid TOOLS that do there job without unnecessary embellishments, while Garmin will do the iPod Touch thing of adding all the bells and whistles they can attracting TOY lovers, as well as those needing good TOOLS.
Both companies make great products, for their markets. The others I lack knowledge of to comment.
I will step off my soap box in a second: after yet another reminder that the best buy is the tool that best meets your needs, it's basic high school, under grad or MBA economics.


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