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product_id: 21895272
title: "Magellan eXplorist 500LE Water Resistant Hiking GPS"
brand: "thales"
price: "₪28"
currency: ILS
in_stock: false
reviews_count: 7
url: https://www.desertcart.co.il/products/21895272-magellan-explorist-500le-water-resistant-hiking-gps
store_origin: IL
region: Israel
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# Long Battery Life Water Resistant Detailed Mapping Magellan eXplorist 500LE Water Resistant Hiking GPS

**Brand:** thales
**Price:** ₪28
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

## Summary

> 🌍 Discover the Great Outdoors with Confidence!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Magellan eXplorist 500LE Water Resistant Hiking GPS by thales
- **How much does it cost?** ₪28 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.il](https://www.desertcart.co.il/products/21895272-magellan-explorist-500le-water-resistant-hiking-gps)

## Best For

- thales enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted thales brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Connect and Share:** Easily share your adventures with built-in connectivity options.
- • **Explore Any Terrain:** Water-resistant design ensures durability in all weather conditions.
- • **Stay Charged Longer:** Extended battery life keeps you on the trail without interruptions.
- • **User-Friendly Interface:** Intuitive controls make navigation a breeze, even for beginners.
- • **Navigate with Confidence:** Equipped with advanced GPS technology for precise location tracking.

## Overview

The Magellan eXplorist 500LE is a robust, water-resistant handheld GPS receiver designed for outdoor enthusiasts. It features advanced mapping capabilities, a user-friendly interface, and an impressive battery life, making it the perfect companion for hiking, camping, and exploring.

## Description

The built-in color map of North America makes it easy to view roads, rivers, waterways, greenways, city centers, airports and other major points of interest. Save 5 track logs, 20 routes and 500 points of interest to the 8 MB available internal memory. Store an unlimited amount of data on your own SD cards.The Magellan Geocache Manager enables you to download coordinates from the Internet directly to your eXplorist 500 and the PC-style file system makes it easy to manage all your data.Easily add detailed MapSend maps for topographic or marine navigation and turn-by-turn street guidance.Intelligently designed for comfortable right or left handed use, the clearly marked keypad provides one-touch access to all your most important features. Joystick controller makes scrolling the simple menus fun and easy. The large color display is easy-to-read day or night. Customizable navigation screens show your location, speed, direction, and distance to destination and more, just the way you want it.Slip your compact (2.2 in x 4.7 in) eXplorist into your pocket and let it guide you on every outdoor adventure. Magellan TrueFixTM technology provides superior accuracy and reliability, giving you the freedom to explore without concern of getting lost.Your eXplorist 500 is lightweight and pocket-sized so you can take it with you everywhere.The eXplorist 500LE does not include a Li-ion battery or AC adapter but offers all the great GPS features and functions of the eXplorist 500 for a lower price.FeaturesColor screen - 16-color screen makes it easy to read maps and information in all lighting conditions Built-in maps - North American or European basemap shows major roads, parks, waterways and many points of interest SD-card expandability - Add unlimited MapSend topographic maps or turn-by-turn street routing Simple file system - Save, organi

## Features

- Magellan eXplorist 500 LE Hand Held GPS Receiver

## Images

![Magellan eXplorist 500LE Water Resistant Hiking GPS - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41VKDB7B34L.jpg)

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## Customer Reviews

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    works good but could use
  

*by D***I on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 4, 2007*

The gps works good but comes with very little instructions. However most can be downoaded as a PDF from the Magellan website(of course they don't tell you that anywhere in the package)I suggest not using the backlight, it will run out the batteries in 3 hrs and without it you get a little more time from AA's, go for the lithium. I purchased all the chargers for the gps, however all must be plugged into the usb cable with is a bit cumbersome to attach.Would still recommend this for the hunter and outdoors man.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Four Stars
  

*by F***Z on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 11, 2018*

Good for it's time.... outdated now....

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    A mixed bag of good and bad news
  

*by M***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 26, 2007*

Unit has a great display, is accurate, and easy to navigate, fast response time recognizing movements, but. . .The optional maps are very inadequate for my fishing interests.  Too few lakes, don't even have floating nav aids along northern Lake Huron, no water depths there either.I am pretty computer savvy, but it's taken me over a month to get the file system and POI's/geocaches organized and working right.  I'm not sure what is going on with the "computer style" filing system, but while it is a good idea, it appears unreliable, with files mysteriously disappearing, only sometimes reappearing.  There may be something about the setup or use of the device I havne't figured out yet, and the support web site is useless.Here is an example of the problems:  I couldn't get my computer to recognize the unit (USB connection).  I tried and tried everything I knew, and finally tried their phone support.  I kept getting put on hold for long periods, then finally called their sales number for a RA to return it.  I said I either needed to return it or get a computer expert to help me.  They got me a computer expert who spent over 45 minutes with me to no avail. I finally inadvertently disconnected the phone line, waited 15 minutes for her to call me, she didn't, so I called again.  I asked for the same person, but the person on the line said she would connect me but wanted to ask a question first:  "In what direction is the USB cord going out of the connection to the GPS, across the unit or out away from the unit?"  I said away from the unit.  She said reverse it. I did and the computer recognized it in an instant, and has every time since.  Why should a cord be installable in two directions, work only in 1?

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*Product available on Desertcart Israel*
*Store origin: IL*
*Last updated: 2026-01-24*