EXplorist 500 or Magellan eXplorist 500 is one GPS receiver produced by Magellan. For this eXplorist type of GPS receiver, Magellan also produced another types like eXplorist 100, 510, 610, and others. This type of GPS is user friendly and easy to use even for new who has never used GPS before. To use this GPS, some buttons that you need to know are: On/off button, mark button, navigation (Nav), zoom in and out, arrow joystick and enter, menu, go to and escape button. As you can see in the picture all the buttons are easy to find and to understand. All of buttons above are in front face of GPS. For back the most important to know is the battery door and battery door fastener.

Explanation about all buttons that Magellan GPS eXplorist 500 used are below.

Of/of, is used to turn the eXplorist 500 on or off.

Enter, is used too execute or access the highlighted items that displayed on the screen. The reverse button for Enter is Escape, to cancel or close the function has been accessed. Zoom in is used to displayed maps bigger and it can reach until 35 meters. The reverse button is Zoom out, to display maps in small view until 2700 km.

Features on GPS EXplorist 500

Another important button for this Magellan GPS eXplorist 500 is Navigation button. This button function is to show all of navigation aspects of this GPS receiver. All of aspects include, compass screen, position of object (that means you) and satellite status. In order to get the best result of this GPS functions, at least 4 satellites must be there to transfer signal in to this eXplorist 500. In this button, you can monitor how many satellites are there. Mark button is important too. This button is used to mark you favourite position. If you find some interesting point like your house, school, or any other favourites place, you can mark them as your point of interest. With this button, you can mark them easily. Another interesting button to use is GO TO button.

This button is used for routing the best line you can track from your current position to another interesting point. For example, if you are in the school, mall, airport or anywhere and you want to track the best route to your home as another interesting point, you can use this button to get the route. As long from your current position, you can get signals at least from 4 satellites. You can see how many satellites that exist from Navigation (Nav button).

Menu button is a standard button like any other tool interface, it used to display available option for the applications. To navigate the menu, you can use joystick button. For the back side of this GPS, just keep put the battery in accurately and lock them securely. I hope this short explanation can make you understand a little bit about this Magellan eXplorist 500.

Another GPS receiver from Magellan the same type with this eXplorist 500 is eXplorist 100 and some useful information about vehicle GPS systems you can find them here.

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