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| Magellan Meridian Gold Handheld GPS | 
 enlarge | Brand: Magellan
Category: CE
Buy New: $399.99
New (1) Used (4) from $120.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 22693
Media: Electronics
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries: 2
Native Resolution: 120 x 160
Display Size: 2.2
Size: Meridian GOLD
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5 x 3
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MPN: 980598-02
Model: 980598-02
UPC: 763357103250
EAN: 0763357103250
ASIN: B00005OLY8
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Worst support August 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Purchased one of these and when I contacted the manufacturer, Magellan, was told they no longer offer support for the unit but they would gladly allow me some credit towards a newer model. Sure got screwed on that deal!
 Ok for the price November 24, 2005
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I own one of these for more than a year now. Since then actually I bought a Garmin auto GPS which is much more expensive. The one I bought came with a mapping software, not the direct route. Therefore, it does not help me auto navigate. Only shows my current position. It is very difficult to find a place because of limited menu functions.
However, I found something that may help other users. Contrary to what the manual says, I could use a 512MB SD card and loaded a bunch of maps with USB connection straight to the card using SD card adapter. All you need to do is to limit each file well below 64MB and follow the indexed file naming used by the unit. This worked for me and the unit could recognize all the areas in all the files that I uploaded.
Additionally, it is impossible to upload a lot of data with the supplied serial cable. USB transfer was fast.
Cheers.
 Meridian Gold - Good Value GPS for the Dollar November 12, 2005
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Meridian Gold - Good value for Hiking and Car Navigating
Pro: The Meridian Gold is good at holding satellite signal. Uses up to 500 Meg SD or 1 Gig SD cards to hold extra detail maps. Serial PC interface to upload / download maps or waypoints with PC.
Con: This is an older Magellan product. About 8 oz. & 2 inches longer than more modern GPS models. Interface to PC is serial not USB, so uploading PC maps to GPS is slow. Instead, better to use a USB card reader to load 64 mb detail maps to SD cards in about 3 minutes. You load the road or topo maps in 64Mb chunks (each 64Mb chunk covers 2 to 4 US states). The MapSend software asks whether to load via serial, load via USB card reader or save to PC harddrive.
Summary: I've used this GPS for mountain biking, hiking, car trips, and positioning antenna tower for a wireless internet service over the last 6 months.
Some discount retail stores have this at $200.
Easy to learn interface. Offers 7 data screens including a plotting map of current position, satellite status, 1 screen with large fonts easy to see while driving, a compass, odometer and other screens. All screens can be customized for type data shown: speed, avg speed, max speed, ETA, distance, bearing, heading, next turn, position error, Course to Steer, Velocity Made Good and others.
20 routes and 500 waypoints. You can edit waypoints on the GPS, but it's easier using Topo, Direct Route or other Magellan MapSend software and serial cable attaching to PC.
Waterproof(IPX7 standard) and rubber armored case. 2 level glowing screen for night which shortens normal 2 AA battery life of 8 hours. Base map is ok for highway driving but I got MapSend TOPO for hiking / mtb riding / detailed streets. GPS seems to accurately track bike trail, max and avg speed of my bike.
Has a great street address look up feature in the GPS that plots the location of a business or home. Very handy for finding parties or restaurants or businesses that I've never been to here in Buckhead/Atlanta.
Great GPS for the dollar.
Not for Automobile Navigation October 23, 2005
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
Not very functional, screen difficult to read, download information takes forever, doesn't use roads when calculating distances, does line of sight. Need lots of extras to make this even slightly useful. If you are planning to use this in your car, I would definitely get a different product as this is almost worthless. Won't hold much info from software as downloads are limited to 4 regions of about 16K.
 Waterproof exterior? Only if the water is large ice cubes. October 2, 2005
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
It's a bit of a joke to include the word "waterproof" in the title for this product. The battery and memory card cover is so loose you can see right though it to the other side. Small sized hail would be able to get into this unit! Magellan uses the term "rugged and waterproof" on the box, and it does appear somewhat rugged, but by no definition of the word is it waterproof. Other than that ... this is my first experience with a GPS and to me, it seems unnecessarily difficult to use for anything other than "hey look, I'm heading east at 3 mph!". I'll spend the time and try and learn its idiosyncrasies, but I'm disappointed it wasn't more useful straight out of the box.
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