Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 at 10:32
Magellan is apparently now owned by" Mio Technology Corporation a subsidiary of Mitac Int'l Corp., a Taiwanese electronics maker that manufactures and markets Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs). PND with digital TV and navigation software for PND and Smartphone. It sells products under the "Navman" and "Mio" brands"
No idea of the implications of this with respect to continued support/manufacture of Magellan handheld ("recreational") gps units..though makes you wonder why they would buy it in the first place if getting out of the business they do was the plan.
Magellan eXplorists superceded Meridians in ~2004/2005...I suppose support has to stop somewhere, though making the latest maps still suitable for this model would be easy, though possibly not a good business decision if selling new GPS units was your main bread winner.
One good thing about the Triton 1500 is that you can, with little effort, run OziExplorerCe on it. I have Magellan MobileMapper 6 which is basically a Triton 2000 in disguise on which I ran OziCe for a few years. Very reliable unit. One thing I dont like about the new Tritons is the fact you can only use it with their GPS Mapping software (VantagePoint) ie upload/download data - no big deal as you can export and import data in other formats easily but a slow old dog of a program with limited maps (unless you convert you own).
Cheers
Greg
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