Battery life indicator to make sure you're prepared to hunt hours on end. Circuitry Type VLF. Big elliptical search coil. Frequency shift. Battery Indicator Yes. Ground Balance Manual Ground Balance. Search Coil Shape Round.
It's a nice detector for the money. Mine is actually a 8500 which I like real well. Haven't used it out detecting because the ground is frozen here in MN, in January. I did some testing in my outside coin garden and it hit all my targets including a 10" quarter. I could tell that a bottle cap was a no dig by the iron grunt it gave. I think this will be a great detector once I get it out in the field this spring. It has a bunch of great features.