Home Icons:
Immediately below date and time, the Indigo Xplorer displays four main icons each representing a menu option—Messaging, Tracking, Utilities and Settings. The arrow buttons are used to place the cursor over an icon. The perimeter of an icon lights up and a label underneath it appears when the cursor is placed over it. The enter button is used to select the menu option.
Last Report:
The last successful report sent by tracking or emergency notification is displayed in the text box below the main icons. Check-In, Way Point, free-text and canned messages are not considered as “reports” and, therefore, will not be displayed on the home screen even if a message was sent successfully. With limited space on the LCD screen, only date, time, latitude, longitude and altitude are visible in dimmed gray text. Additional information can be seen by pressing the arrow down button. After the arrow button is pressed the text will change from gray to bright white for better readability. Displayed text can be changed back to gray by repeatedly pressing the left arrow button. The Last Report information is saved on the device’s non-volatile memory. Even if battery power is removed, the information can still be restored.
Check-In soft key allows user to send a quick message with a single, easy-accessed button. When the Check-In button is pressed from the home screen, a second screen will appear requesting for confirmation. Once confirmed, the Indigo Xplorer sends out a short code representing a Check-In message. Check-In messages with GPS location takes longer to complete since the device has to acquire a GPS fix first.
Way Point (Soft Key):
A waypoint is a GPS location that user wants to identify and mark with a specific name tag for future reference. When the Way Point soft key is pressed from the home screen, the Indigo Xplorer immediately turns the GPS receiver on to acquire a fix. User then has the options to go back to the home screen without further action, to re-acquire a new GPS fix, or to save the waypoint. Selecting the Next option will bring up a full keyboard allowing user to enter the waypoint label. Use the key to toggle between the keyboards.
A waypoint label can have up to 309 characters long. As each character is entered the remaining allowable number of characters for the label is displayed on top of the LCD. The Add option saves the waypoint into the device’s non-volatile memory for later retrieval. The Indigo Xplorer can store up to 1,000 waypoints. The oldest point is overwritten as the memory becomes full.