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Magellan Maestro 3100 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator
From Magellan
List Price: $349.99
Price: $150.77

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Magellan Maestro 3100 delivers the best navigation experience at the most affordable price
The Magellan Maestro 3100 Portable Auto GPS System delivers the best navigation experience at an entry-level price point. Pocket-sized, powerful, and re-engineered for easy use, its fresh graphics, intuitive interface, and friendly voice will guide you turn-by-turn as you enjoy the drive. If you don't like reading directions, you'll love the Magellan Maestro 3100. It's simple to use and ready to guide you to virtually any destination in the 48 continental United States. Just turn it on and go. Its thin, sophisticated design and attractive, intuitive touch-screen graphics make driving a pleasure. Enter an address or select from 750,000 preprogrammed points of interest (POIs) with just a few screen touches. SiRFstarIII™ gives you the fastest GPS position accuracy in the industry.

Additional Product Features

• Turn-by-turn voice and visual guidance: Enter an address or POI and get there quickly and safely
• Graphical interactive maps: Built-in maps and destinations for the continental U.S. mean you'll always know where you are and where you're going
• Rechargeable battery: Navigate when you don't have access to power
• SmartDetour™: Automatically prompts you to route around suddenly slow freeway traffic
• Auto night view: Adjusts color and contrast for easy night viewing
• 750,000 points of interest (POIs): Optimized database to easily find gas stations, restaurants, ATMs, and more, with smart location search by name, category, and region
• TrueView®: Pop-up visual of upcoming turn
• Map View: 3D bird's-eye and standard map views
• Reception: Integrated antenna for clear GPS signal

What's in the Box
Magellan Maestro 3100 Portable Auto GPS System, flexible windshield mount, dash mounting adhesive disk, cigarette lighter power adapter (12-24 watts), quick reference guide, reference manual CD, and USB cable.

Customer Reviews

Worth the price
I purchased this last year for $169. Considering my needs this unit works very well. The only complaint I have is that it doesn't give you the street name with its spoken directions. This is troublesome since I am not so good at looking at the screen while I am driving and in unknown neighborhoods I will end up missing my turn since the GPS isn't exactly on the mark. It might say "make left turn in .2 miles" and I will have passed the street at .1 miles. Having the street name spoken would eliminate this problem. I haven't had the problems some have said about wrong directions. This is much better than mapquest and certainly more accurate. Sometimes the recalcuation takes time but not enough to be annoying. This would probably happen with any GPS system depending on where you are located. I am in NY State and have had no problems driving in NYC, Long Island, Westchester, Rockland and surrounding areas with this GPS.
P.S. Plan to purchase the 3140 which speaks the street name (now around $150 from Amazon). You can't find this feature in the other models (Garmin, TomTom) with SIRF, which is the latest receiver technology, for the price. I have found Magellan models to be the most cost-effective models out there especially since I don't need bluetooth (have built in car-phone system and my car stereo with 5 CD changer gives me more than enough music).

Expensive is not always better
This unit is high end. Features are not. Hubby has a Nextar unit, and it charges from the PC, has much more user friendly mount, carry case, all things this Magellan does not. I returned the unit to the seller and they graciously agreed to send me a cheaper unit that has twice as many features. Very pleased with seller, not with unit.

location problems
Most of the time the product is good. The major problems involve the inability to locate my position. The unit tells me I am on a street one block away. Trying to locate a road near my home the unit directs me to make turns where none exist. I have tried customer support by phone, letter and email with no success in fixing the situation. I even tried downloading an update from a dvd and this did not work.

Robt Owens

Magellan Maestro 3100 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator
From Magellan
List Price: $349.99
Price: $150.77

Buy Magellan Maestro 3100 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Ships from and sold by Electronica Direct
35 new or used available from $129.00
Average customer review: