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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 New: $329.00
You Save: $270.99 (45%)
New (9) Used (3) Refurbished (4) from $199.89
Avg. Customer Rating:  197 reviews
Sales Rank: 2806
Color: black/silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 480 x 272
Display Size: 4.3
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
Condition: Brand New Factory Sealed - Authorized Dealer- 1 yr Warranty - WE SHIP SUPER SUPER FAST ALL ORDERS SHIP WITHIN 24HRS, SHIPPING INSURANCE INCLUDED - HAVE YOUR UNIT WITHIN 3 BUSINESS DAYS. SHOP WITH CONFIDENCE WITH OUR 30 DAY DEFECTIVE RETURN POLICY - Signature required at time of delivery We do not ship to P.O. Box / APO address. We do not ship to NY,HI,PR
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| Customer Reviews:
 So far very pleased April 12, 2008
Used this item only a few times since I've got it and it led me almost to the door of my destination. "It just would not quite park my car." If you travel or run errands to differant destination's, I strongly recommend this GPS.
pat goldy upstate NY
 used briefly April 12, 2008
I USED IT ONLY ONCE SO FAR AND DID NOT GET A CHANCE TO GET INTO ALL THE FEATURES...BUT IT ACTED WELL AND I WAS IMPRESSED...
Magellan 4040 April 10, 2008
After much research, I recently purchased a Magellan 4040 GPS. I had identified several models from leading manufacturers as acceptable. My selections were based on models with similar features - 4. 3" screen, text-to-voice, lots of POI, updatable, high reviews, etc. My actual purchase came when I found the Magellan 4040 at the lowest price I have seen it on Amazon before or after.
I have found the unit easy to learn and fun to use. I have not experienced any of the negative things cited in the many reviews I read. Although, I confess, I have not had call to contact Magellan customer service, which is a fear developed from the negative reviews about the customer service at Magellan.
Bascially I picked up the unit when I received it and started wondering around in the various menus. Operation of the unit seems pretty intuitive and I have successfully navigated four trips without ever viewing the training CD or reading any other instructions. Entering a destination as city, street, number seems only logical when programming a trip. I do not see how it could be done any better or understand the complaints I read about this feature. I particulary enjoy the display of arrival time and the details displayed when one taps the compass on the main screen.
After one month with the unit, I am very pleased with the 4040 and would recommend it highly.
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.
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