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Magellan Maestro 4040 4 3 Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator

Elegance, simplicity and advanced features designed to save you time and effort on the road. Magellan Maestro 4040 makes driving more pleasurable and less stressful. Enter virtually any address on the freshly-designed graphical touch screen, or select from 4.5 million preprogrammed points of interest to get turn-by-turn voice guidance to anywhere in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. SayWhere text-to-speech tells you the street name for each maneuver, so you can focus on driving. Smart buttons and Magellan’s unique QuickSpell function enables error free spelling to minimize steps so you get a customized route to your destination with just a few touches of the screen. It offers several AAA features especially suited for members. Bluetooth wireless technology enables hands-free phone calls with your Bluetooth-enabled phone. Store or sync numbers and contact information for clear communication through the integrated microphone and speakers. Easily add LIVE traffic incident reports and Voice Command control. Voice Command-enabled – Add Voice Command control for hand’s-free operation with a simple upgrade from www.MagellanGPS.com (Activation fee applies). Expected availability in Summer 2007 Birds eye 3D view – Clearly see your surroundings in 2D or 3D Rechargeable battery – Navigate when you don’t have access to power Select up to 20 destinations and choose order that best fits your needs Prompts you to route around sudden slow freeway traffic (no fee or subscription required) Auto Re-route Auto NightView Slot for SD memory Size 5. 0 (l) x 3.75 (w) x 0.88 (h); Weighs 8.5oz

User Ratings and Reviews

2 Stars NO updates available
I really like magellan GPS units – bought a tom tom but wanted to go back to magellan but after buying this one found out there are no updates for this unit and it is outdated by a couple years and when I travel a lot i need the latest updates on roads. suggest buying a model with updated files.

5 Stars Happy With My Purchase
I bought this product in March of 2008 and just recently called customer service for the second time since I purchased the product and had no problem with understanding the customer service rep or getting a reasonable response for my reasoning behind calling. I am very pleased with my product purchase and the Magellan company.

4 Stars gps works great!
The unit worked great right out of the box. The Magellan customer service was great as well, I was able to get the latest map up-grade free of charge. It’s very easy to use and accurate as well. Much better than any other gps I’ve had in the past. The widescreen really is a great feature also. Two thumbs way up. thanks

3 Stars Good Hardware, But Beware of Buggy Map Updates
We have had this product 2 years and it provides an impressive number of features for the price. We travel a lot between N. Calif. and Phoenix and “Ingrid” (that’s what we call the unit’s female voice) has proved invaluable.

Recently, we paid Magellan $80 to upgrade the maps to the 2009 version. On a recent trip to Phoenix, the updated maps were full of errors and Ingrid got completely befuddled in the Southeast portion of Maricopa County. Also, we have a AAA enabled version of this unit, and it was unable to find the nearest AAA office with the new map update.

We wrote Megellan and their response was that the maps were provided by a third party vendor (and were done in 2007 for the 2009 update!!);So Sorry. So be aware that the maps may not be as up to date as expected and may have some flat out errors. Oh, and the hardware performance seems to have deteriorated with the map update as well. It takes longer to find the satellites and seems to have more trouble finding the route at times, even if the map is correct.

5 Stars First time GPS Owner
This is my first GPS owned so I have no other system to compare it to. I read a lot of reviews about this product before I pulled the trigger. I always read the negative reviews first to see if they can scare me away from the product, but the two most reoccuring issues were the cradle and the customer service, in which neither one have anything to do with the actual product. I have not had to call customer service so I cannot comment on that. My GPS cradle fits like a glove though.

Routing

I’ll get into my favorite features and call it a day. It is very simple IMO to enter an address, put in the city, street name, then building number. From there you can choose your route (fastest time, more use of freeways, less use of freeways) and can also exclude roads on the route. Sometimes I will GPS a place I’m not exactly sure where it is, but Magellan will give me the city streets route, and I’ll know the highway is much more convenient, so I can just go back to choose route, and tap most use of freeways. And to get back home, you simply tap the home button and route.

Bluetooth

The bluetooth is pretty nice. Once paired, you can dial someone’s number 1 of 2 ways: select there # from the GPS if you’ve entered the # with their address, or you can simply dial it from your phone. Pairing the two is as simple as pairing anything else bluetooth.

POI

The POI database is pretty abundant. The only thing I did not have success locating via POI is the club. Everything else from schools, to sports complex, to airports, to atms, to fast food I have had no problem. And it doesn’t just simply select the closest available so you accidentally get the wrong one. You can select POI’s by city, current position, by name, etc. Depending on the criteria you select, it gives you a list of POI’s to choose from.

En Route

When driving Magellan always gives you a heads up 2 miles in advance of your next turn. It gives you another heads up I believe half a mile from your turn. It is pretty spot on for when to make turns, whether on the highway, or in the city. When on the highway, it will tell if the exit on the left or the right, and will say the exit name, and display the exit # and name. The small problem I’ve had is once you arrive. I would say about 80% of the time it says I have arrived about 100-200 feet early (which is better than late), so finding someone’s house could take an extra 60 seconds or so, but it has not caused me any problems because it’s not like I’m driving with my eyes closed.

Hope this review was helpful, and I would definitely recommend this product. Easy to use with multiple functions including things I have not mentioned here (i.e. mutliple routes).

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Magellan RoadMate 1200 GPS Magellan Maestro GPS 3200 3250 4250 TomTom One OneXL Go 720 Go 920T Mio C230 C720T 110V 240V AC Wall Charger Power Adapter Cable Cord

This Gilsson AC Charger Adapter is designed to POWER and CHARGE your Motorola Razr, Blackberry, Garmin 200 200W 250 260 270 350 360 660 670 680 750 760 770, Magellan Roadmate 1200, Magellan Maestro 3200 3250 4250, TomTom One 3rd Edition, Go 720, Go 920T and any other GPS or portable devices that power through miniUSB connector. This cable is guaranteed to work with above devices! Charge your GPS at home or office and plan your trip while at home or office.

This item is compatible with:

GARMIN: Nuvi 200, 200W, 205, 205W, 250, 250W, 255, 255W, 260, 260W, 270, 300, 310, 350, 360, 370, 600, 610, 650, 660, 670, 680, 710, 750, 760, 770, 780, 850, 860, 880; Zumo 400, 450, 550; StreetPilot, C310, C320, C330, C340, C550, C580, I2, I3, I5; Colorado 300, 400C, 400I, 400T; eTrex Legend C, Legend Cx , Legend HCx, Vista C, Vista Cx, Vista HCx, Venture HC, Summit HC; Edge 205, 305HR.

MAGELLAN: Maestro 3200 3250 4250.
MITAC MIO: A201, C220, C230, C250, C310, C317, C520, C710, C720T, H610, P350.

NAVIGON: 2100 5100 7100

TOMTOM: One, One XL, One 3rd Edition, Go 720, Go 920T.

DELPHI: Colorado 400T

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Magellan Adapter
A “must have” if you own a Magellan Maestro. It gives you the capability to enter addresses and do set up procedures in your home instead of in your car connected to the cigarette lighter/adapter. The internal battery of the Magellan has much to be desired. You need to use a power source to adequately program info.

5 Stars PRICE/VALUE CANNOT BE BEAT: TIME & GAS SAVER
Having used this GPS for over two weeks, one week in the highway chaos and wilderness of northern New Jersey, I concluded that for the price, this GPS is nearly miraculous.

It must have saved enough gas for me to pay for this thing! Every time I made an error in NJ (and there were LOTS of them), this GPS provided immediate corrections, found alternate routes, and safely spared me from losing time and fuel.

Don’t leave home without it.

5 Stars MAGALLAN ROADMATE 1200 GPS
THIS IS A VERY GOOD ITEM TO GO ALONG THE 3200 GPS, YOU WILL NEED THIS

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Magellan eXplorist 100 Handheld GPS

The pocket-sized eXplorist 100 recreational GPS receiver is both powerful and affordable. The eXplorist 100 features TrueFix technology which takes advantage of 14 parallel channels, supported by WAAS and EGNOS for fast signal acquisition, minimal signal loss and reliable accuracy to within 3 meters. Save up to 3 track log files, 500 points of interest and 20 routes to guide you back to your favorite spots or more importantly to your car. Put the power of GPS in your pocket.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Great for starters
My wife bought thhis model for me on Valentines Day in 2007. What a great gadget! I am a newbie at Geocaching and after a few outings with this GPSR I have become an amateur geocacher. It is easy to use and great for learning the basics of GPS Navigation. It is a wonderful student model, and though it doesn’t have fully featured maps, it gives explorers a handy way to mark surroundings, waypoints and paths. The Go To feature is the best for finding caches and it stores planty of waypoints. Great tool!

2 Stars One of them died and its a paper holder
Less than a year ago I bought 8 units for public programing and teach people how to use a GPS.

I have used them twice and on the second program one of them froze while walking on the park. I tried to turn it off but nothing happened. I removed the battery, turn in back on… nothing.

I tried with brand new batteries, the same result. The GPS unit seem to be dead.

I tried to contact Magellan 3 times through their webiste and all the messages bonce back saying that there is a delivery problem with their email.

After 45 minutes waiting on the phone through costumer service they told me that I had to send it back and they will replace it. It is going to be hard to teach people how to use GPS with different units. I was told that they would replace the unit for free. Now I will have missmatching units and afraid that the other 7 will freeze at some point when they are needed for a public program.

This units seem to be ok but the quality is really poor so I would buy something more reliable that the explorist GPS.

2 Stars 100 No longer supported by Magellan
My eXplorist 100 is only 4 months old and is defective. It’s been treated very carefully but it will randomly clear the screen, lose the satellites and now is clearing all data… very frustrating.

When I contacted the company, they say it’s no longer supported and they won’t repair it or honor the warranty (they are offering some sort of trade up, but I can’t find out what the offer is yet as they say the phone system is having ‘technical difficulties’).

So I loved the 100’s price and features, but if you buy it, realize that if there is any issue, you are on your own.

1 Star Awful Customer Service!!!!!!!
My dad got me one of these for Christmas a few years back.

I really enjoyed using it to keep me from getting lost on new trails using date provided by others and entered into the GPS.

I also enjoyed using it to bookmark springs, campsites and other info on trails I hiked a lot.

The problem was the screen died in less than a year.

Magellans customer service is in India or some other country and it was obvious that the lady who was serving me could only understand a few words.

I gave them MY CC number and sent the unit to TX per their instructions.

Then I got an email saying my CC info was rejected. I attempted to call customer service 3 times to straighten it out. I did it at lunch because usually it took me an average of 45 minutes to connect. All 3 times the 3 difft people I talked to seemed unable to understand what I was saying.

Finally in frustration I emailed the company explaining the problem and asked them to please put me in touch with someone who could help me. No response.

I would have thought they could have looked my repair auth # up on the screen and let me know what the problem was. After my third time calling I got the unit back saying they needed my info so I tossed it in the trash in frustration.

I would never buy one of these new again. I might buy a USED one for a price where you could throw it away if it died but the customer service poisioned me on buying another new one.

Another downside is since there is no cable to download your bookmarks to a computer I lost all of the bookmarks I had not written down with pencil and paper when the unit died.

2 Stars Limited use
I got this last summer to do hunting in the national forest

(texas) and it really is nothing more than a fancy electronic

compass. The trackings and routes are nice, and it has evaluation.

Eats battery like a starved dog.

This was my first GPS .. and it died after light use .. 8 months.

Maybe a dozen weekends. The keyboard buttons barely respond anymore.

It has no abilities to connect to a computer and up/download

map savings either … The more you use your GPS unit, you will

likely expect that functionality.

Or maybe not !

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Magellan RoadMate 1400 4 3 Inch Portable GPS Navigator

The Magellan RoadMate 1400 is uniquely stylish, with a 4.3″ wide-format, full color interactive touch screen and an ultra-thin design. Use the intuitive menu options to pick your destination and choose how you navigate to virtually anywhere. Whether you want to stay on freeways, avoid freeways, travel the shortest distance or arrive in the quickest time; your Magellan RoadMate enables you to navigate the way you want. You can even exclude specific roads or freeways from your route and also avoid toll roads. Built-in maps of the continental U.S., Hawaii and Puerto Rico, plus 1.3 million pre-programmed Points of Interest make it easy to travel the country and easily find gas stations, ATMs, hotels and much more. The advanced QuickSpell feature intelligently searches addresses and Points of Interest, offering you a simple list of available locations. It even checks spelling so you can enter a destination with just a few touches of the screen. SmartDetour prompts you to route around suddenly slow or stopped freeway traffic and automatically re-calculates the fastest detour. The integrated rechargeable battery offers navigation for up to three hours. Search destinations, plan trips and enter addresses and personal Points of Interest from a meeting place, restaurant or anywhere power is unavailable. The large wide-format color touch screen shows your position on the map, route, destination, ETA, nearby Points of Interest, signal strength, next maneuver, street names and more at a glance. Turn-by-turn voice guidance saves time getting directions before leaving the house and enables you to keep your eyes on the road. Bold, intuitive menu options make it easy to pick destinations and choose how you navigate, without even reading the instructions. Accuracy 3 to 5 meters (10 – 16 feet) – WAAS/EGNOS Dimensions – Width 4.57 x Height 3.27 x Depth 0.73 (11.6×8.45×1.85cm) Weight – 7.1 ounces

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Magellan RoadMate 1400
The 1400 is a nice unit. I’m familiar with GPS, and this model is quite easy to use. Even a beginner should have no problems. Screen size and graphics are Tops. I’ve been using it everyday for at least a month, no hiccups. Price was good from Amazon, and quick delivery. Thanks.

5 Stars Worth the money.
I had a mid-grade Garmin that was not as smart as a 3rd grader. On numerous occasions it would send me onto deadend streets in neighborhoods in Savannah. The Magellan has proven far superior. Although they do not get the marketing exposure from the big box stores, seek out a Magellan, you’ll be glad you did.

3 Stars Purchased Today, Will review upon use…
So far, this gps seems good. I’ve used the Tomtom, and found it very helpful although smaller than the current Magellan. I work in real estate and travel extensively through out the Phoenix area. I know the city fairly well, however a guide is welcomed. I’ve only used it for a a couple of days, and have been happy with my purchase price from Target at $97.00. Will update more.

4 Stars Magellan Road Mate
This GPS for me is very helpful, user frindly and easy to use. Saves me a lot of time getting where I need to go.

5 Stars Great GPS
This GPS is a great product. It does one thing and does it well gets you from point A to point B. Who needs all the other [...] on a GPS Bluetooth, mp3, photo screen shows and who knows what.

Fast satellite reception, easy to use, has lots of points of interest, able to store destinations. For the price its well worth it.

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