Magellan Maestro 4250 GPS(Vehicle, 4.3

Reviewed by: BBB64

Duration of ownership: 2 Months

Strengths: Portable. Accurate

Weaknesses: Speakers. Awful sound

Overall: Worst customer service ever

Reviewed by: Jim123456789

Strengths: Seems to work well when not acting up

Weaknesses: Customer service is not just non existent, it is useless.

Overall: If you are lucky, your 4250 will work as promised out of the box. Mine did not. The touch screen would lock up making it unusable. It took 6 months, many emails (mostly unanswered), and many hours on the phone before receiving a workable replacement unit. Any product is no better than its support. I will not be buying another Magellan product.

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Strengths: LARGER SCREEN,SWLIM DESIGN,STYLISH,

Weaknesses: ACCURCY IS OFF BY 10 METERS,LACK OF ABILITY TO CONTROL CONTRAST AND COLOR. VOLUME IS TOO LOW TO OVERCOME ROAD NOISE.LACK OF MP3 AND JPEG FOLDERS.

Overall: I HAD UPGRADD FRON A MAGELLAN 760 MODEL AND FOUND THAT MY 3 YEAR OLD MODEL HAS A FASTER ACQUIRE TIME AND IS MORE ACCURATE SHOWING MY CARS POSITION AT AN INTERSECTION. I ALSO HAVE A MODEL 2200 FOR MY MOTORCYCLE WHICH DESPITE HAVING A SMALLER SCREEN HAS MORE OPTION THAN THIS MODEL. MAGELLAN HAS DISAPPOINTED ME THIS PURSCASE.

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Strengths: Slim, nice features, Bluetooth.

Weaknesses: Poor reliability, voice features don?t work all that great, there are probably more drawbacks but it didn?t work long enough to discover them.

Overall: Ever wonder why there are so many refurbished Magellan products available? Apparently it is because they fail by the hundreds, or perhaps thousands. This is my third Magellan GPS and it is the third one to exhibit problems. The first model (700) had display problems, the (800) had the hard drive fail and this one failed within a few weeks unable to complete startup. Magellan say it?s a common problem. Magellan should change their slogans from ?turn it on and go? to ?turn it on and wait?, and ?never lost? to ?never works?.

Reviewed by: halpap

Strengths: Display and clear voice prompts

Weaknesses: Poor quality directions

Overall: While this unit is good if you get lost, when I tried to map certain routes that I was familiar with, I found the directions poor, i.e., it advised me to take a considerably longer route than I would have chosen myself. I therefore find myself using this only when I don't otherwise know the way (and try to get directions off mapquest before I set out, to minimize those occasions when I am reliant on the GPS.) As an example of the frustrating directions, one time, the GPS thought I was on the lower deck of the George Washington Bridge, rather than the upper deck. It should have known because the approach I took, from the Palisades parkway, leads to only the upper level. The turns off the bridge, whether to right or left are the opposite for the two levels of the bridge, so if I had not known how to get off the bridge to the next road, I would have taken a completely wrong turn.

Reviewed by: dawu1996

Strengths: a lot of fertures, fast search and good size.

Weaknesses: power switch, low voice volume and sometime screen freez

Overall: I don't want to talk about good points about this unit becuase a lot of people already did. I just want to point out some problem for this unit since nobody mentioned yet. 1. power switch. it doesn't look solid. sometime you just could not turn on. I could not figure out why. I have 5 years GPS experience, this is the first time I have problem to turn on the unit. I spoke to tech, support, they had no comment. 2. sometime after you turn on unit, screen freeze. when this happened, nothing you can do except press and hold power button for 10-15" to turn off unit. then restart again. this is very annoying. magellan tech.support had no comment on this eighter. 3. speaking volume is too low, especially when you are driving on freeway, you barely can hear instruction although put max. volume. Hopefully someday magellan will fix these problem.