Magellan Portable GPS
All the Essentials

When all other portable GPS models took marketing leverage in boasting multimedia features and compatibilities, Magellan portable GPS gives you all the essential functions of a portable GPS. With its simplicity, it is one of the few navigation devices that give you everything but the things you don't need.

A portable GPS has long proven its necessity to navigation safety. Aside from guiding you through your route, going from place to place, it certainly has tapped some important aspects of boating as well as driving safety.

Clearly, the advantages of having a portable GPS must not be underestimated. But while GPS devices has acquired features like mp3 player, image file storage and many others, Magellan sticks to basic GPS navigation features.

Magellan portable GPS is primarily designed to cater to boaters and amateur fishermen as a way of streamlining their navigation experiences on water. This little device offers all pertinent information on just how you can go to your target location or how to find a certain point of location.

Right there, it gives you a sophisticated device that offers the accuracy that all navigation devices offer, such as maps, compass, speedometer and many others. All you need to do is follow its lead. Understanding how it works will give you the full advantage of a reliable and complete marine GPS system.

The Magellan brand carries a number of portable GPS models. Each is designed to deliver the decent if not the best navigation experience at entry level price ranges. Most of which are crafted to be pocket-sized, powerful and carefully engineered GPS devices that are easy to use.

Regardless of which Magellan GPS model you take, you are sure gifted with a device that delivers fresh graphics, intuitive interface and friendly voice guides for turn by turn navigation instructions. For someone who is not keen on sticking with maps, these devices make your boating experiences a breeze.

If you happen to be big on maps, Magellan portable GPS can guide you to virtually any direction and location with its comprehensive mapping system. Turn it on and this little device will produce the mapping specs that you need. With the advent of touch screen features on GPS devices, entering and searching for various points of interests en route has been made conveniently easy.

The SmartDetour features of Magellan GPS automatically prompts you to the easiest, shortest and practically safest route to take to get to certain locations. It carries up to 750,000 points of interest, which is relatively inferior to the million-POI features of other GPS models, but is enough to get you to your destination.

For crisp and clear viewing, these devices are given an auto night view feature to automatically adjust light and color display setting.

Magellan's GPS models are designed to offer effective and accurate trip planning and routing at a mere push of a button. It is even useful in summoning emergency help, thanks to its superior navigation and precise location systems.

While Magellan portable GPS devices do not have all the bells and whistles that more expensive GPS can offer, they offer a reliable and accurate GPS navigation system, which pretty much define the purpose of a GPS device.

In the first place, you did not buy a portable GPS to have a music player or a picture viewer right? So why should you pay for features that you don't need.

Top of Page---> Magellan Portable GPS - All the Essentials

Back to Magellan GPS Systems