Magellan Triton 300

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3.5 stars

"A great little geocaching companion!"

by CherryLaneStation on July 31, 2009

Pros: So far it's been dead-on in finding Geocache coordinates (sometimes within 3 feet or so)
I love the easily customizable features
Works great with geocaching.com

Cons: Customer service is out of India (annoying -- I want to talk to someone who really knows the product, not someone who just looks up answers in a book -- I can do that!)
VantagePoint, their software, needs a lot of improvement.
Summary: This was my first GPS. A friend has the cheaper yellow Garmin, but she has to enter every character for each geocache, so I wanted something that could sync to my computer. This one does so through the VantagePoint software that comes with the unit. VantagePoint is clunky, but hopefully it will be improved over time.

I've read a lot of reviews that say that this machine stops working, and I've only had mine a short time, but I've been very please with it. I've taken it along on geocaching adventures with friends and mine tends to be among the favorite of the 2-3 GPSs our group uses.

Battery life is pretty good (haven't needed new ones so far, but I don't use it daily) and it has worked well on cloudy days. I'm still learning how to use it, and wonder if I want to upgrade to the 400 (only necessary if the SD card slot will read/store GPS files -- but customer support says it won't. If I ever find out that it actually will, I'll be angry -- I've written to the only Magellan email address I could find on this and so far no answer).

I wish it came with a hand or neck strap and/or carrying case -- expensive electronics really need those! But they are cheap enough to purchase.

For the price (I really didn't want to go over $100 and this was $150) it meets my expectations. I'm very please so far.

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