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| Magellan Maestro 4040 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator | 
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| Brand: Magellan
Category: CE
List Price: $599.99
Buy Used: $119.99
You Save: $480.00 (80%)
New (8) Used (7) Refurbished (4) from $119.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  209 reviews
Sales Rank: 4737
Color: black/silver
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 480 x 272
Display Size: 4.3
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5 x 4 x 1
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: Maestro 4040
Model: Maestro 4040
UPC: 763357116946
EAN: 0763357116946
ASIN: B000NMKHW6
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 magellan purchase April 9, 2008
Everything went very well! It was delivered in good time and everything came in one piece. Kudos!
 Magellan Maestro 4040 - Good but NOT great! April 8, 2008
There are more expensive GPS units out there and in my research I looked at the specs for most of them. I bought the 4040 because Ritz Camera offered the unit at a price that made it impossible to pass up. It does have a lot of features but there are a few that it really lacks in. Likes: Text to speech. This feature lets me hear the name of the road before I turn on to it but sometimes when dealing with unusual spellings the synthesizer tends to garble and you really need to listen. Also when a route starts with N. as in "N Rt 32" it actually says N instead of North and it does it in a run on fashion that can be confusing when listening. Like, "Continue Nroute32", which is real hard to put across here on paper but believe me when I tell you it took some listening to get to understand. This unit is on its umpteenth firmware update from Magellan and they have fixed alot of the problems that were pointed out in earlier reviews. One big annoyance is that you can't see your actual traveling speed (in MPH) while on a Route. It shows it when free driving without a destination but once you put in a destination and start calculating a route it goes away and won't come back while the route is in progress. I do like the way it recalculates on the fly if you decide to take a road you know is better and faster than the one it mapped out for you. It doesn't shout "make a u turn" at you over and over again like some I have driven with in friends cars. The Bluetooth worked just fine as far as making a connection with my cell phone but friends complained of a very annoying echo of their OWN voices so I stopped using it and went back to my Bluetooth headset. It will NOT allow you to input an actual latitude and longitude and it will not read out the actual latitude and longitude of your location. This is a ridiculous fault as far as I am concerned. Every GPS should be able to show you your location and accept input using coordinates. One major annoyance is that it thinks my house is about 100 yards farther up the road than it is and I cannot force it to recognize a different (actual) location. How dumb is that. Every place else I have been using the route calculator it was spot on. Why my house is giving it a problem I don't know and why I can't park in my own driveway and force the box to accept that location as my default HOME location is a serious deficiency. Overall I do like the unit but keep in mind that I only paid $169.00 for it from Ritz. It I had paid the 3, 4 or 5 hundred dollars that other retailers are asking for the same unit I would be seriously POd and probably would have sent it back. I love the wide screen and the touch screen works very smoothly. It doesn't always pick the route I like best but I just go ahead a drive the way I want to and it compensates and then when we get close it leads me right to my destination. So far I like it but I know that sometime in the future I will want a unit that clears up the deficiencies of this one. Hey maybe if I hold on to it long enough Magellan will fix them with more firmware updates.
User Friendly April 8, 2008
I travel 50k per year and this GPS is very easy to use. I have suggested other "road warriors" look into getting one.
Fantastic! April 7, 2008
I researched GPS systems for weeks trying to find the "perfect" one for my husband for Christmas. I insisted it be a wide screen and announced the street names. At first I wanted a Garmin because that is what everyone was telling me to get. But theirs with that criteria were beyond my budget. A friend recommended this model and decided to go for it.
Wow, he was not disappointed. After a few months of my husband using it, he says it is the best gift I have given him in 20 years of marriage. He travels anywhere from Boston to Florida for work. If he's driving its in his car. If he flies, he takes it along and used it in rental cars. He says it works absolutely amazingly. He is very impressed with its performance and features. After years of trying to quickly get out of the parking lot at Newark airport, this gps showed him a route that no signs there shows and he was out and on the highway so quickly he was totally amazed the gps found this route. Everytime he does it, he still comments on it. Says it was worth every penney JUST for that. lol
I have never been motivated to write a review before. But we are beyond happy with this model that I just had to make sure to help others with their research. So we highly recommend this unit and all its wonderful features.
Works... April 7, 2008
This GPS has worked well for me and my wife. Makes driving around much easier for new places as we don;t have to print out a lot of yahoo maps.
I also updated the firmware and AAA software on the GPS so make sure you do this as it has fixed a lot of issues others have had.
My only compliant is sometimes it takes a little bit of time to readjust your trip. So you might miss a exit or road when it does this but will pop back up and correct your route after that.
All in all a good GPS after you update the software. I have not seen any new maps yet but so far that has not been a major problem.
Paid $175
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