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Magellan Maestro 4350 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Bluetooth & Integrated Traffic | 
| Brand: Magellan
Category: CE
List Price: $499.99
Buy New: $123.00
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Seller: Dailywholesaler
Rating:  120 reviews
Sales Rank: 5057
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 480 x 272
Display Size: 4.3
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 5.1 x 9.8 x 2.1
nv:Type: Receiver
GPS Accuracy Position: 3-5 meters
Waypoints: 6 million
Touch Screen: Yes
Expansion Slots: SD Card
Battery Type: 2200ma Li-ion rechargeable, CLA 12-24
Battery Life: 3 hours
Antenna: Integrated multidirectional patch
MPN: Magellan Maestro Elite 4350
Model: Magellan Maestro 4350
UPC: 763357120851
EAN: 0763357120851
ASIN: B0014L8AXS
Release Date: October 10, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | New 4.3-inch wide-screen, full-color, anti-glare touch display | | • | OneTouch User Interface: The fastest, easiest, and most personalized user interface available saves frequent POI and category searches by personalizing shortcuts to commonly used destinations and favorites such as coffee shops. | | • | Integrated Live Traffic Functionality: Includes a free 3-month traffic subscription, which provides real-time traffic updates and automatically reroutes drivers when an alternate route is available. | | • | Pre-loaded with maps of the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico, all available in 2D, 3-D, and street-level | | • | 3D Landmarks: 3D versions of historic landmarks, including stadiums and bridges, in key U.S. metropolitan areas help drivers and pedestrians better orient themselves with their surroundings. |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 120
 Nice GPS July 16, 2010
Maximum Velocity (Columbus, OH)
I've owned this for a year and a half and overall it's a nice unit for my 18k so mile of leisure traveling a year. My first GPS was also a Magellan so I'm quite used to Magellan's GUI interface and prefer it over the Garmin.
Likes:
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* Intuitive GUI - I like the fact that most options are just one touch away with the most essentials like exit POIs, turn list, and trip timing on the main nav screen. The nav screen is well designed, IMO. Also like that it limits the choices of letters on the keyboard as you enter the info.
* Excellent and _fast_ POI search coupled with One-Touch storing. Some of my favorite custom search: nearest rest areas on route, nearest hotels on route. The POI searches, once you get used to, is this unit's best feature.
* Ability to view the map, select a point, it tells me what it think the point is, and allow me to select as a destination. And if you select a POI icon, it will tell you interesting locations near by. Coupling this with the 3D feature, walk-to-destination mode, I had a lot of fun in Washington DC.
* Nice re-routing and avoidance. It'll pop up a detour button when you start to crawl on the freeway and allow you to choose how many miles to avoid and show those choices on the map. This feature saved me a lot of times when there are accidents and constructions.
* Nice lane-assist guidance.
* Eye-pleasing color scheme - I'd prefer its earth-tone colors over the cartoony Garmin colors. Also have interesting topology overlay in certain areas.
Don't like:
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* Freezes - why I gave it 3 stars. Some bad freezes will wipe out all your contacts -> realllly bad when you're on a trip. So have your contact list on a piece of paper (or cell phone handy). If a freeze happens within a city and there's no good place to stop to fix it, there will be no joy.
* Routing off the freeway onto an exit ramp, just to get back on an on-ramp to the same freeway. Major annoyance. Happens on I-495 DC area and Atlanta. Same with preferring local lanes over an express lanes (I-270 in DC).
* Default to avoid certain routes like plaque - By default routing avoid toll and carpool roads. If you're not aware of this and turn them on, you'll be scratching your head wondering why it's routing you through inside roads. Happens to me in DC where it avoids I-66 because it's a carpool road and got me stuck in traffic. I can see avoiding toll, but carpool???
* Enter an address requires entering the city first. I understand the purpose of a tree-like search starting from the root for elimination, but you're kinda screwed if you only know the street name and don't know the area well. One time a friend told me to meet at "at 123 blah st" without telling me the city. Would be nice to search street like a POI (ie. nearest street with that name).
On the extras like BT, FM transmitter, MMC ... I think they're garbage add-ons. The hands-free would be nice if the audio wasn't so terrible on the tiny speaker.
As a GPS, I think it's a solid GPS if it doesn't freeze on you.
 Strange routing, errors, crashes, avoid the product July 5, 2010
S. Kovner
I've had this for a year now, and it crashes usually every 2 or 3 trips, which is annoying enough, but it has other problems.
For one thing, it warns about curves in the road, but says nothing about some intersections, requiring me to look at the screen when I'd expect some guidance.
It has told me to get on an access road and back on the highway, which makes no sense. (Rt. 128 at the Rt 3 intersection in Mass. It ALWAYS does this; not a fluke. I ignore it, and it tells me to get back on the highway.)
It told me to take Rt. 3 South in NH, when it meant North, and the display showed the correct directions for North.
It won't let me pick a route that I want, routing me way around to avoid a certain highway. Maybe because it is a toll road, but I need a faster route, not a roundabout one.
And finally, their tech support is broken today, with the server it links to not available or just nonexistent.
Next time, I'll spend the extra money on a Garmin.
Do the job but I trust a GPS at 100% July 4, 2010
N. T. (somewhere in the Mid-Atlantic region)
Before to hit the road I will check with a web map where I need to go or use one the feature of this GPS, look at the map where the GPS direct you and make the correction.
Yes mine froze too because of overheating. This happen if the GPS work on the 12v. too long or as happened, too long in a plastic bag - to protect again the rain - under a full sun on the handlebars of my bike when running on the battery.
To correct the problem : easy. Put the GPS over a vent and let the cool air running to keep the GPS cold.
If the GPS froze: easy too. Just shut down the GPS by pressing the on/off button 2 sec. Let it cold down for 20 sec and more, and turn it on. Work no problem.
 The features I want for cheap June 14, 2010
David Murray
To get the fm transmitter,mp3 player and other comparable options in a Garmin would have cost me $400
 Bugs bugs bugs April 25, 2010
Marty Pekar (Greenwich, NY USA)
The first unit I received was defective right out of the box. Would not turn on. A brand new replacement was sent which I've been using for six months...until today. Occasionally it locks up, sometimes in the middle of a routing, and needs to be reset, losing all your customized information (Home, etc.) This past week it did this twice causing me to throw up my hands and buy a Magellan 4700 which is MUCH more user friendly. Street names are much easier to read in the 4700 and the voice is mercifully louder. Granted the 4350 has more customizable features but even when the unit doesn't completely lock up it frequently loses the customization and you'll be riding and see no street names at all because the unit has decided to shift into a less close perspective. Ugh.
Other reviewers seem to be having more luck with the 4350 but I wonder if they've been using it for any length of time or if this is just an initial reaction. Oh, the first software update I did crashed the unit. The second worked O.K. Now if the unit would just work O.K....
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