Magellan Triton 2000
The Magellan Triton 2000 is the top of the new Triton line of handheld GPS units from a proven leader in GPS technology; with a 2 mega pixel camera, color touch screen and multimedia player capability you can't go wrong with this full featured GPS unit.
Ease of Use, Performance: 24/25, Look & Feel: 24/25,
Features 25/25, How much I enjoy 25/25
Total: 98/100
The Blue Ribbon for Excellence goes to the Magellan Triton 2000 for its complete set of features and user friendly interface along with the easy to use software program Vantage Point. The Magellan Triton 2000 is the leader of the pack in the new Triton line of handheld GPS units and performs very well in all the things I could throw at it.
Taking pictures, recording notes, making short videos and of course the regular GPS uses of finding geocaches and tracking where you have been are all in this handy sized unit. The GPS tracking and map use is simple with the enclosed Vantage Point software but of course you may want to purchase some better software to go along with the handheld GPS unit.
The Triton 2000 has about everything you could want in a handheld GPS unit including a 2 mega pixel camera, color touch screen, video recorder and voice recorder as well as the WAAS/EGNOS GPS receiver. The Triton 2000 has a regular very accurate GPS receiver that has position data in latitude and longitude as well as accurate elevation information, compass, speed and barometric pressure.
The Triton 2000 is the all in one multimedia and handheld GPS system that really does have a lot of features. I am currently listening to Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen on the Triton 2000 and it sounds great. The only problem I have with listening to songs on the unit is the volume control is a part of the menu and settings system so adjusting this may take a few pages of thumbing through the settings.
Using the menus and pages of the system has been made significantly better from previous GPS units by Magellan with the easy rocker directional button and middle push button. The Triton 2000 along with the 1500 comes really complete with a touch screen for really simple navigation but also for extremely easy input of information using an onscreen keyboard.
The Triton 2000 also comes complete with the handy camera, voice recorder and camcorder features for use anywhere with a few simple clicks on the unit. Turning on these separate devices means going through a few pages on the menu system but this is not bad for one device that does so much.
The 2 mega pixel camera and camcorder does a really good job considering it is a part of the entire GPS unit. The voice recorder is a simple voice recording device for taking notes on your stored waypoints and sounds pretty good, even in high winds. The microphone for the voice recorder is a small hole below the menu button while the camera lens is on the back of the unit above the PC connection.
The side of the unit has the SD card slot and a few other connections like the external antenna and earphone connections. You can listen to your music with earphones and this sounds just as good as my regular computer media player. The songs are crisp and clear using earphones but the small speaker on the back of the Triton 2000 is more for just listening to voice messages or notes. The speaker is not all that great but perfectly suitable for voice and will do in a pinch for a quick music fix if you forgot your earphones.