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| Magellan Maestro 4050 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator | 
 enlarge | Brand: Magellan
Category: CE
List Price: $799.99
Buy New: $265.90
You Save: $534.09 (67%)
New (10) Used (3) Refurbished (2) from $148.52
Avg. Customer Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 7058
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 480 x 272
Display Size: 4.3
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.4
Dimensions (in): 5 x 4 x 1
MPN: Maestro 4050
Model: Maestro 4050
UPC: 063357116954
EAN: 0763357116953
ASIN: B000NMJJPM
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good GPS December 23, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
All in all, a very good GPS, with outstanding reception and very accurate. Response to voice is good. Good screen and voice directions.
 Outstanding Product December 21, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I would recommend this product to everyone. Outstanding Voice Commands and Directions. Slow on re-routing however, this product has more than earned its keep. Great Product. I have not been lost since purchasing this GPS
 Maps are OLD December 14, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Okay. I got this for my mother for Christmas. She is not the most technical person in the world but I am an Engineer who deals with computers every day. I wanted to check out the unit before I give it to her for Christmas.
Physically it's a nice unit. Navigation using the touch screen menues is okay but you end up doing a LOT of cancelling. Sometimes the on screen keys are hard to get to respond or the wrong one responds but...this might be fat fingers on my part so I'll overlook this.
Biggest problem...Out of date maps. My mother lives in a retirement community that has been there for at least 10 years. But when I put her address in it did not show up....Fine...I went to the Magellan site and contacted them and they indicated I should got to their map provider Navteq...which I did. Navteq indicated the address WAS in their database. Navteq also indicated they update their maps SEVERAL times a year. I then went back and told Magellan this and showed them where their OWN site said that the maps were at least a year old. Here is what they sent me:
Thank you for contacting Magellan. This email is in response to your query
about the Maestro 4050.
We apologies for any inconvenience caused by this issue.
I understand that you would like to know when there would be a Map update
release for Maestro 4050.
For your information, currently we do not have any update for Maestro 4050.
We are unable to promise the date for new Update. Therefore, I request that
you wait for the Map update.
If you have registered your unit with our website, you will receive a
notification about the Map update release in future. In addition, you can
check our website periodically to check for the Map update.
However, we will consider your message as a feedback and pass it to the
Department Concerned.
I am confident that the above information would help you in resolving the
issue. If you have further queries, please get back to us.
Well in spite of the poor English...It seems they have NO plans to update these maps??? Hummmm. I would think navigation accuracy would be VERY high on their priority list...Apparently NOT. So, I also bought my wife a unit....a TomTom 920...I'll write about it in the future...
Bottom Line: Nice unit...poor maps. Buy someone elses unit that cares about their map accuracy and updates.
Good choice December 12, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
For the price, this is a good choice. Love the traffic feature. Device has locked up on me several times. I have to power it off and then back on to get it working again.
 Don't be fooled by these good looks! December 10, 2007
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Excellent Graphics. Very Pretty. But that's about all the good I can say. No printed owners manual - it's on a CD. Magellan seems to think it's more practical to haul your laptop or your pc around, which is what you'd have to do if you want to keep your owner manual with you. Unless you want to print it out. But that's not the same.
Terrible Routing. No via points. Each route point is a separate trip.After you reach each point on the route you have to go in and select the next point. The unit doesn't eliminate the address when you get there. You have to go in and take it out manually. Also, when you get to an address, the unit says "you've arrived" and announces the street name, but doesn't announce the house number. And often, it does this blocks ahead of your actual destination.
Voice - What a joke! It seldom works without having to reset the unit. What a pain! I found myself "yelling" at it a few times. My grandson got a kick out of that! One time that actually worked! Make sure your windows are up and your radio is off. It won't work with any background noise at all. And when it does work, There's only about 7 or 8 commands you can give it - most of them you'll never use. And why Magellan seems to think "next turn" isn't important?? Who knows. You can't even get a "next turn" voice prompt manually. The unit will give you a readoout of your next turn. But I expected to be able to either push a button or use a voice command to give me the next few successive turns. But it doesn't work that way.
The most important aspect of a quality GPS is the ability to give you the best route to a specific destination based on "shortest distance" or "fastest route", and also a good "points of interest" locater. Several times these features failed me. On a trip to Oregon coast it gave me a route that is 20 minutes and 25 miles longer, after I requested a "fastest time" route. I complained to magellan about this, and their answer? "there may be an update in the future" or something to that effect. It also gave me a route around rush hour that was totally rediculous route that would have taken me out of the way about 20 minutes longer. Fortunately I was only "playing" with the unit and I know the area. Also, on a differnt trip to the Oregon coast, I asked it to find a Costco warehouse in Astoria, Oregon. This Costco had been there for many years. It couldn't find it. It couldn't find a lot of things. My older garmin ique 3600 found everything I asked of it. The magellan finds what I want about 50 percent of the time. UNNACCEPTABLE!
The highway kit (traffic) is also useless. During the recent windstorm and flooding in the northwest, it wouldn't tell me that I-5 near Chehalis Washington was closed (for a period of several days. Yet, they want me to pay something like $60.00 a year for the service - If I had purchased the highway kit for the $100.00 they want for it as an option, I would have totally wasted my money!
I paid about 100.00 more for this thing to get the the bluetooth, voice activation, and highway kit. A total waste of money. The bluetooth worked well, but really - who needs it in a gps.
Also, this two hour battery, seldom lasted two hours. Count on about an hour. Don't go far from your auto cord and a live battery.
About the only other good thing I can say about this is the fact that it picks up the sattelites very quickly. Even indoors.
For some reason, this thing is getting some positve reviews. That's why I bought it. Who's giving these reviews? Magellan employees? Inexperienced gps users? I don't know. But those reviews, along with this Maestro 4050, just aren't telling the whole story.
This thing isn't totally worhless. It will keep you from getting lost if the battery doesn't go dead first.
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