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hi I'm x1 Gooden with cnet.com it's date we're taking a first look at the Magellan switch series GPS monitoring devices now the switch series is right here on my wrist the whole thing both devices the switch and the switch up now basically what this waterproof device does is it monitors your GPS position your altitude your speed and whatnot basically to kind of give you an idea of what you're doing how fast you're doing it's great for things like running walking and because it's waterproof you can also use it for swimming it can be paired with an A and T plus accessory like a heartrate monitor or a bicycle cadence monitor or a foot pot or a power meter so you can get other information to be logged along with your actual position data and then later on you can take the switch and pair it up with your computer and upload all of that data to active Magellan GPS comm to get a good look at the path that you've taken complete with GPS coordinates elevation changes heart rate if it's present you can see all of that right here on the website the switch up is the step-up model that's a little bit thicker but that's because it includes a ambient temperature meter for measuring the well ambient temperature barometer for more accurate measuring of the elevation and a vibration meter so that you can feel the notifications during those times that you can't necessarily hear them it also snaps off of its wristwatch case so that you can snap it on to a tube mount for mounting on things like a bike now that said earlier the switch and switch up can be paired via USB for charging they get about eight hours of battery life out of the box from a full charge but the switch up can also be paired with a battery booster that boosted to 16 hours but if you're gonna be plugging it up every day to upload your run you're probably not gonna need that much battery life now the switch up is three hundred and forty nine dollars from Magellan's webstore and the switch the step-down model is two hundred and seventy nine dollars I've been Antoine good with cnet.com and we've been taking a look at the Magellan switch series switch and what