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| Magellan Maestro 4000 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator | 
 enlarge | Brand: Magellan
Category: CE
List Price: $449.99
Buy New: $194.00
You Save: $255.99 (57%)
New (6) Used (4) Refurbished (2)
Avg. Customer Rating:  108 reviews
Sales Rank: 2952
Color: black/silver
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Tracks: Unknown
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: Unknown
Display Size: 4.3
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.3
Dimensions (in): 5 x 4 x 1
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: Maestro 4000
Model: Maestro 4000
UPC: 763357116939
EAN: 0763357116939
ASIN: B000NMKHVW
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 GPS December 13, 2007
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
The (Magellan Maestro 4000 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator) is a good GPS for the price.
Awesome December 6, 2007
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a great buy..... You can't beat the pricing on this one..... Don't listen to the other reviews...... Mine has never froze up like one of the reviews was saying... Must have been a factory defect... Which the 3 year factory warranty would have covered it anyway... If they would have just called them and sent it back I'm sure they would have replaced it.... I'm not sure if the other person who gave a review even knows how to correctly work theirs.... They said there wasn't many POI's and there is over 1 million POI's "points of interest" Like wineries and tourist hot spots..... Plus they update them regularly via satellite.... So ignore the bad reviews....... You will be pleased with this item.... The icons are so cool......
Best GPS December 4, 2007
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
Great unit. About 99% acurate. If you do make a wrong turn it quickly gets you back on the correct route. I am very satisfied.
 Dangerous to Use November 28, 2007
4 out of 12 found this review helpful
The wire connection of Magellan Masetro 4000 to cigarette lighter socket is unreliable, giving shaky quality of map video. While driving, I had to repeatedly shut it down, so that the location on where I was driving can be restored. After so many attempts to make it useful, I just finally gave up, and relied on good ole Mapquest.
 Fairly well pleased November 26, 2007
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
This GPS has one shortcoming that -- had I realized it at the time -- might have kept me from buying it. When you are approaching a turn, it does not name the street or road onto which you should be turning. However, the street name is displayed in fairly large letters at the bottom of the screen. Some feel this is a driver distraction, but then, so is looking at any other part of the screen.
This Maestro is slightly better in this regard than the Garmin unit we rented recently in Phoenix. At least the Magellan dings a chime at the precise point where you should turn. That particular Garmin simply announced a turn was coming, but lacked any precise indicator; more than once we found ourselves staring into two rows of oncoming headlights at what turned out to be the freeway OFF ramp. I understand other Magellan and Garmin models do have the street naming feature.
The selling point of this Maestro 4000 -- since my wife and I are AAA members -- is that it is purported to be the only one linked to the entire AAA trip information data base. It takes membership in the auto association, though, to gain access. You can go into the AAA link and download detailed lodging and restaurant information for any location. And it's not just dollar signs and diamond ratings. You'll get paragraphs of descriptions written by the owners of these establishments.
As we have become acquainted with other features about our Maestro (automatic day/night screen adjustment, routing options, address book, etc.) and learned to listen for the time-to-turn chime, the lack of street naming has become less of an issue. At the outset, though, that was a not happy surprise.
Here's a freebee suggestion. No matter which GPS you get, DO NOT set up the Home feature -- unless you want the bad guy who steals your GPS to follow you home. Instead, just add your street address to all the others in your address book. Make it harder for them figure out where you live.
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