Editorial Review:Product Description:Magellan Maestro 4050 GPS (Refurbished) Magellan® Maestro™ 4050 offers the most satisfying navigation experience ever, in a symphony of elegance and simplicity with LIVE traffic updates, Voice Command & Control, Bluetooth® hands-free calling, SayWhere™ text-to-speech and millions of pre-programmed points of interest. Use Voice Command for hand's-free routing to your home and points of interest from three popular categories. For example, say 'Nearest Restaurant', 'Chinese Food', and select the restaurant of your choice. Enter virtually any destination on the freshly-designed graphical touch screen and get turn-by-turn voice guidance to anywhere in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Smart touch-icons and Magellan's unique QuickSpell™ function enable error-free spelling and minimize steps, so you get a customized route to your destination with just a few touches of the screen. Maestro is designed for those who enjoy precision technology with style! It has been created by Magellan; the first name in navigation™, and built on years of experience providing the best in GPS navigation and feedback from among the over 400,000 users of the Magellan RoadMate and Hertz NeverLost systems.
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Great product
Got this refurbished as the deal of the day! Was a little skeptical but it has been great. I even use it on places I know how to get to just so I can see my estimated arrival time. Would highly recommend!
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So happy with the first one, bought it again
I travel (via car) for a living. Over the past 4 years I have had a Garmin 330, a Tom Tom 792 (?), a Garmin Nuvi 650 and a Magellan 4040. Not one of them was perfect under all conditions or in all cities I travel but the Magellan 4040 did most of the basic GPS functions better than any of the others.
On a recent trip to New England, US Aiarways was good enought to drop my suitcase in a matter that destroyed my 4040 (cracked the screen and LCD. Had to buy a new GPS and decided to buy the same one again, the Magellan 4040.
The most important reason I bought the Magellan again was the ability to access most common functions with less button (touch-screen pushes)pushing than the Garmin units. Entering addresses is easier and the automatic split-screen turn display is very useful. Think about this, the less buttons you have to push, the more time your eyes are on the road at 70 MPH.
Also, the "AAA Tourbook" is a great plus.
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GPS
The Magellan Masetro GPS is convenient and portable for use. It makes driving to somewhere unfamiliar easy and less stressful. As I continue to explore its features I find it more and more helpful.
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Where's Walmart????
I bought this as an Amazon Daily deal also. After reading the reviews I was a little worried about purchasing the Magellan 4040 refurb but I needed to upgrade from my Garmin I3 and I felt the price was reasonable considering a new map for Garmin is almost 100 bucks.
I can certainly say that it was an upgrade - I have had no problems in the two weeks since having it. It was very easy to operate and get started right out of the box. the large screen is nice and easy to read with an upgraded version of it's program the display shows estimated arrival time, along w/ length to next turn. One feature that I really like is that the map will show me how my next turn will look with an icon in the bottom right corner.
Some features are virtually useless like AAA directory and service. I would imagine that if I were a AAA member it would be nice but even the POI featured in AAA directory are not very helpful. I live in the Chicago suburbs and very often I cannot find a local store that should be listed in the directory. This is more of a map problem than a device problem but nonetheless it is a problem. I am surrounded by WalMarts and my device could not find a Walmart within 50 miles. after an extensive search the device pointed me to a Walmart Optical in another state. I'm finding that the map is very inefficient at finding places which I know the names of and are readily available on my Garmin I3. This is probably the most distracting feature (or lack of) that I find with the device. Although I have to say that It is very easy to input addresses and the Magellan is quick to calculate the route for me.
On the positive side I like that when I turn the unit on it does not take an unreasonable amount of time to get me to the map screen and subsequently find the satellites. As a matter of fact I'm quite impressed with its satellite finding abilities. My Garmin I3 had serious issues keeping a satellite read in the city of Chicago with all of it's tall buildings but this little baby had no problems for me although It did take me on a couple of longer than needed routes. I think this is normal though with most devices I've seen (I travel a lot and have much experience with GPS devices).
I sent an email to the Magellan customer service site because the install disk would not let me go through the process of installing "POI Manager" onto the Magellan 4040 and have not heard back from them in over two weeks. i realize that is not a good sign but considering what I upgraded from I don't feel it's a bad place to be.
I did try the bluetooth feature which is really nice. One phone conversation was loud and clear while another conversation was a little difficult to hear. It should be noted that the clear conversation happened with a land line at the other end while the not-so-clear happened with a cell phone. I have not used the feature since I have a bluetooth earpiece that I absolutely love. Another nice feature but just a bell/whistle for me.
I noticed that this unit has the option to upgrade to a voice command unit. That's a nice feature as I've grown to love the voice command of my BlackBerry. Unfortunately that upgrade will set you back another 100 bucks. Too rich for my blood.
Overall I like the device for the price and I can't complain. The large screen as well as the easy to manipulate menu's make this a 4 star product for me. At 150 bucks you really can't beat the price for all of its features. I would have easily given the Magellan 4040 refurb a fifth star if I could only find the nearest WalMart, Walgreens, Target, etc..
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Great GPS
This Magellan Maestro is by far the best Gps I have owned and I have owned several. It is super sensitive, acquires satellites immediately, and the directions are almost always accurate. The SurfStarIII chipset is unbelievable, and the AAA tourbook is great.The only negative is the short battery life, but most people use this unit pluuged in. No Gps made today is perfect. I have owned 2 MIO Gps units which always sent you the long way and were so innacurate that at times they didn't recognize streets. The only Garmin I owned worked great bu didn't always hold satellites.