User manual

What’s in the box?

With the 710 you get a standard USB cable, 2 AA batteries and basic user manual. A leaflet in

the box tells you about your free 30 day trial ‘Premium Membership’ with Groundspeak

(www.geocaching.com). The GPS screen has a plastic peel off protector. This has a ‘peel off’

tab so I guess isn’t designed to be left on and is only for shipping. There is no belt

clip/karabiner or lanyard.

First impressions

The 710 has a really nice solid feel and fits comfortably into your hand. The touch screen is

very sensitive and nice to use even with the screen protector left on. Removing that makes no

appreciable difference so having a proper screen protector won’t affect the use of the screen.

The screen is marginally larger than the Oregon.

Without referring to the user manual the use of the menus and 2 keys on the side was pretty

straightforward and intuitive. When first powered on you get an initial setup screen for

language, and then it takes just a few moments to get a satellite signal and then displays the

map. The eXplorist 710 and 610 come with a pre-loaded City (streets) and Summit (topo)

maps as well as a worldwide base map that all the Magellan units are supplied with. The

default screen is the map.

The battery cover is easy to remove with a twist catch that recesses into the body. In the

battery compartment is a microSD card slot for additional maps and storage. Also in the back

is a speaker and camera lens which is protected with a clear window. The back cover features

a solid metal strip for attaching the optional bike or car mount or belt clip. On the front of the

unit is a small hole for the microphone for the voice memo and video camera feature. At the

bottom is a rubber cover over the USB port.

Two buttons on the top left default to ‘Mark waypoint’ and ‘Camera’. Both can be configured to

any function you want in the setup menu. All other controls are on the touch screen.

Setting up the GPS

As soon as I started using it I realised I had to stop the beep when you touch a menu option!

The menus are Magellan’s unique ‘Four Corner’ arrangement; an option in each corner of the

screen. This allows quick access to menus and is very useful. Tapping the ‘four corner’ icon in

the lower left brings up the main menu. If you’ve been using the map these options are not

visible (instead you get map information so just tap the screen to bring up the ‘four corners’

again).

There is a ‘Dashboard’ screen where you can customise what you want displayed for quick

access as well as a OneTouch™ screen which can also be customised with options of your

choice. There are two default icons on this One Touch screen for ‘Home’ and ‘Car’. Tapping

the car icon for example tells you it isn’t saved and would you like to save your current location

here? I tried this in the middle of a large airport car park to store where my car was. On

returning to the airport just access the OneTouch™ menu, tap the car icon and you can

navigate straight there. Very nice feature.

In the example on the left:

1 Main menu 2 Options 3 Dashboard 4 Quick Menu