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| Magellan Crossover 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Road and Trail Navigator | 
 enlarge | Brand: Magellan
Category: CE
List Price: $599.99
Buy New: $229.99
You Save: $370.00 (62%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  97 reviews
Sales Rank: 1253
Format: Cd
Platform: Not Machine Specific
Color: Olive
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: Unknown
Display Size: 3.5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 4.3 x 1.1 x 3.5
MPN: 980890-01
Model: 980890-01
UPC: 763357115703
EAN: 0763357115703
ASIN: B000KMEGDA
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Not perfect but does the job! July 26, 2008
Pros:
1. multi-purpose, I wants one for auto-natvigation and one for hiking. I don't know why it's so hard for other auto-gps to provide electronic bread-crumps.
2. GPS sensitivity is pretty good, I can get signal in my house up to 10 ft away from the window. It's not great in downtown area though.
Cons:
1. Hard to get maps for other places (e.g. Europe, NewZealand, Asia regions..) it's much easier to download maps from other users if you own a GARMIN.
2. the track save option is buggy.. the time stamp is wrong after you exported to text file.. have to figure out a work-around myself..
3. the touch screen doesn't work well all the time.. sometimes no matter where I tap, it hits the letter "M".. a bit annoying.
4. a bit bulky and heavy..
still probably would buy this one again if I want an all-in-one unit
 Not so good offroad July 7, 2008
I bought this wanting to use it on and off road. The NAV features worked well enough on road, but I found the detail very lacking on offroad trails for my 4x4 trips. Magellan has been saying they would provide new maps, but I haven't seen any. I also don't like the fact that the method they use for providing map updates is to require a special SD card be kept in the unit, meaning you can't have anything else in it at the time, like saved info, photos, or MP3's.
On the positive side, this unit came with a lot of accessories that other's don't, like a mount, cables, chargers, etc.
I ended up selling the unit at a loss and I'll wait for something better to come along for street and 4x4 use.
Good GPS, bad service June 19, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Internally this unit is known as Magellan Roadmate 2500T. This is important because if you want to purchase extra SD memory, vendors will typically tell you whether their memory is supported or not. The maximum SD card this GPS can handle is 2 GB even though the documentation says it it is "unlimited". It is very much limited, it also can not handle newer SDHC card. I have had luck with SanDisk 2GB *regular* SD flash memory.
T in '2500T' stands for Traffic, meaning it can be extended with a traffic updater if so desired.
Now the review:
-- The good:
Crossover has a really good satellite visibility, it can see the satellites from the house, from the tunnels, from inside the 27 story high office building, in fact from inside the elevator shaft of that building.
The automotive navigation logic is fine, it will get you from place to place, but it seems to recalculate things very often.
The prompter voice is Ok, you can't change it though, On the other GPS (Tomtom) I was able to set up Kim Cattrall's voice, this one is just one voice that sounds like airport lady.
-- Marine functionality: You need to get so-called BlueNav maps, they come in 2 varieties, downloadable and preloaded into secure SD card.
Both varieties are expensive, if you want those it is better wait for some sort of a deal, I was able to get mine on AAA sale event at a 25% discount.
Downloadable maps are more expensive, you get a single region but you can transfer it into as many SD cards as you want, as long as they are being used on the original device. You can obviously mix and match the regions as you go. The regions themselves are quite small, typically a state or sometime half the state. For example, Massachusetts region is from Ipswich Bay to Cape Cod Canal.
SecureSD maps are a better deal, the regions included are multi-state but: a) they don't have tide information and b) if you lost them you lost them, you can't burn the maps into a new SD media. Once you purchase them they are tied up not only to the GPS device but also to the SD card (that's why it is called secure) you can't make a backup.
--- The bad:
The software that came with the unit is useless. Compared to Garmin or Fugawi it is like stone age. Their better software (VantagePoint) can't work with Crossover GPS at all.
--- The ugly:
The unit comes with the automotive maps from 2006. Why are there maps from 2006 when it is 2008 ? Because they want you to buy the updated maps, they cost $80 and it is a download. This is just plain wrong. Tomtom allows you do upgrade everything the moment you connect it to the computer.
Also, customer support is in India, I had to call about the discount on maps. Weren't helpful at all.
Overall, mixed bag. The unit itself is quite good, but the services around it (software, support, pricing, company friendliness) aren't.
 Old maps are a deal killer June 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not a bad unit, read the other reviews, but the deal killer for anyone should be that the maps included are from August 2006, hopelessly out-of-date, and Magellan has the extremely anti-consumer policy on not providing free updates even with a recent purchase of this unit. You ask, you get a polite e-mail from India telling you you can pay $80 to buy an upgrade disk for the GPS you just bought. Neither Garmin nor TomTom "screw" their customers like this.
Bottom line, stay away from Magellan.
 does everything but nothing good. May 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
very disappointed with their maps. I called Tech support (India) and they told me they were 2006 maps. My home subdivision was established in 2003, yet none of it is included. Another friend lives in an older part of town (built in the late 70's early 80's) The Crossover cannot find him or any of his direct neighbors. I had issues with on-ramps listed where they are not, also a change done by our city many years ago. They say a new update is coming in 08 yet i will have to pay for it!!! I had an old Magellan from the late 90's with road maps and I would venture to say this one is not any better. Calculating trip times are not even close to realistic. The time was calculated off traveling 45 MPH when the speed limit on this highway was 65 MPH. I cannot recommend anyone buying this unit. I thought i could have a good all around unit but this does nothing good, I would have been better off buying separate units.
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