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 - IF YOU WANT PERFECTION DO IT YOURSELFAFTER READING ALL THE REVIEWS I HAVE TO AGREE WITH ALLMOST EVERYONE GOOD AND BAD. REASON FOR BAD IS FIRST I BOUGHT A MAGELLAN 5310. LOVED EVERYTHING ABOUT IT THE FIRST DAY PLAYED WITH IT FOR HOURS,ROUTED MY TRIP HOME RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX THEN SEARCHED POI ECT ECT.PLUGED IT IN THAT NIGHT TO CHARGE AND THATS PRETTY MUCH THE LAST THING IT EVER DID. NEXT DAY IT DIDNT TAKE A CHARGE KEPT TURNING ON AND OFF SCREEN WOULD FREEZE,OF COURSE I TURNED TO THE MANUAL NOOOO HELP.DIDNT EVEN SAY IT HAD A RESET BUTTON.SO KNOWING IT WAS BAD I RAN IT STRAIGHT BACK TO THE STORE AND DEMANDED A REFUND. THATS WHEN I SPENT DAYS READING REVIEWS, REALIZED THEY ALL HAVE THERE PROBLEMS AND FOR THE PRICE,OPTIONS AND POI I STILL REALLY LIKED THE MAGELLAN AND THE 4250 SEEMED LIKE THE ONE. SO I RISK IT AND ORDERED ONE. REALLY GLAD I DID THIS ONE HAS WORKED PRETTY MUCH FLAWLESSLY. IT ROUTES AND REROUTES QUICKLY,LETS YOU SIMULATE THE ROUTE TO SEARCH FOR POI TO PLAN STOPS BEFORE YOU LEAVE OR SHOW YOU ON ROUTE TO LET YOU DECIDE. THE POI IS ALLMOST A GOOD AS THE YELLOW PAGES IT HAS EVERY THING. YOU CAN TURN ON AND OFF THE ONES YOU WANT TO SEE OR THE SCREEN GETS SO CROUDED WITH POI IT CRAZY. IF YOU PASS A TURN OR MAKE AN UNSCHEDULED STOP IT JUST REROUTES YOU. PLAN ALL YOUR DESTINATIONS FOR A DAY IN A FOLDER AND GO TO IT AND JUST SELECT THE NEXT DESTINATION IN ANY ORDER AND IT ROUTES YOU. ADDRESS BOOK WORKS GREAT TO, SELECT TO GO OR IF YOUVE ENTERED A PHONE NUMNBER JUST TOUCH IT AND THE BLUETOOTH CALLS FOR YOU. THE SCREENS A GOOD SIZE THE 5310 WAS A LITTLE TO BIG. VOLUME IS GOOD EASY TO HEAR SOME REVIEWS SAID HARD TO HEAR OVER THE RADIO, WELL IF YOU WANT A LOAD RADIO YOUR NOT GOING TO HEAR IT DUH, WARNS YOU IN PLENTY OF TIME TO GET OVER FOR AN EXIT OR TELLS YOU THE ENTRANCE IS ON THE RIGHT OR LEFT, IF ITS A QUICK TURN IT TELLS YOU FOR EXAMPLE TURN RIGHT WITH AN IMEDIATE RIGHT TURN SO YOU GET THE RIGHT LANE. THE TOUCH SCREEN WORKS VERY GOOD, IT DOES SOMETIMES REQUIRE SEVERAL TOUCHES OR A BACK THEN TO WHERE YOU WERE BUT NOT OFTEN ENOUGH TO MAKE IT A PROBLEM JUST ANNOYING. THE VOICE COMMAND WORKS GOOD TO. AGAIN ITS NOT PERFECT BUT IF YOU EXPECT THAT BUY A UNIT THE COST 4 TIMES AS MUCH AND LET ME KNOW IF IT WORKS BETTER, BET NOT. IT SOMETIMES TAKES A COUPLE COMMANDS,OR WILL ASK FOR A COMMAND FOR NO REASON BUT IF YOU CAN SAY CANCEL PROBLEM SOLVED. AGAIN TO ME NOT A PROBLEM JUST SLIGHTLY ANOYING WHEN IT HAPPENS. MY BLUETOOTH IS EASY TO CONNECT, BUT WONT LIST IT, SO YOU HAVE TO CONNECT EVERYTIME YOU TURN IT ON. AGAIN THE MANUAL REALLY IS LOUSY YOU MUST MUST MUST PLAY WITH IT AND TOUCH EVERY ICON BUTTON ECT TO FIND OUT ALL IT WILL DO. THERE WAS REVIEWS SAYING THE FIRWARE DOWNLOAD FIXES A LOT OF THE MINOR PROBLEMS I MENTIONED, BUT IT SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN PULLED. CANT FIND IT ANYMORE. I EMAILED MAGELLAN THEY JUST SAID NO UPDATE IS AVAILABLE NOW. IT WORKS FINE THE WAY IT IS BUT I LOOK FORWARD TO A NEW UPDATE. MY MAPS HAVE BEEN AWSOME BUT THERES REALLY NO MAJOR CHANGES IN MY AREA FOR A WHILE, AND THE TRAFFIC ICON IS THERE BUT NEVER HAD TO ALLERT ME TO ANYTHING, I EXPECT IF IT WORKS OFF OF THE SAME LINES AS ROAD UPDATES IT WILL BE SLOW TO UPDATE PROBLEMS. THIS ONE HAS NOT FROZEN UP AND NEVER HAD TO RESET IT. COMES WITH THE HOUSE CHARGER CAR CHARGER AND USB CABLE, ALSO THE SUCTION CUP,I PURCHASED THE BEAN BAG WORKS GREAT. I HAVE HEARD FROM EVERYONE DONT LEAVE ANY EVEDENCE IN THE CAR OF A GPS OR IT WILL BE BROKEN INTO. SO ALL I CAN REALLY SAY IS IF YOU GET ONE THAT WORKS ITS GREAT, IF NOT DONT BE SHY TO RETURN IT AND TRY ANOTHER ONE. MINE WAS WORTH IT. Rating:  - Magellan 4250This is a great system. I like it better than the in car system I had in another vehicle. A wealth of information for trips. Rating: - Magellan Maestro 4250I really like this GPS. I have had a Garmin (never could figure it out) and used a Tom Tom. The 4250 is by far the easiest to use. I like the AAA feature. The screen is big enough that even a 50 something can read it easily. It gives you plenty of warning for turns coming up. I like the little icons on the screen that let you see where banks, fuel, eateries, etc are on your route. Altho we have have not had to use it, the traffic alerts are cool. I'd get another one. Rating: - So far so goodSo far I have only two complaints, and I will hold them for the end. My 4250 was packaged very well, the shipping was fast. It was simple to take out of the package and get up and running, and with the "Points Of Interest" and addresses that are already in the thing, you really don't have to do anything else. I elected not to use the adhesive disk because I stick nothing to the interior of my car, so it is mounted on the windshield, and it holds securely. It is very simple to use either through touching the screen or voice commands, although sometimes it does not respond to my voice commands, but that can be expected with the inherent background noises that exist in a moving or running vehicle. Sometimes it can be a challenge to find and address/street, but I have found if you type as far as it will let you, and then start backing up one letter at a time, you will eventually find the address/street you are looking for. They are not always in there the way you expect. A good example is people here refer to some streets as RR but they are really Roosevelt Road, you have to actually enter "Rooseve..." to get on the right page. It's not a problem just one of the little things you have to learn. If you put in your destination, and then examine you route by using the simulate mode, you can figure out which of the 4 routes you want to take, and you can fast forward or reverse through the simulation to look at specific areas of your trip, which is a very nice feature. Sometimes it just will not calculate the route the way I want to go, and when that happens I just go the way I want, turn off the volume and it will continue to recalculate my route until it gets to the one I want. So far it has not gotten me lost, although for some reason it did have me exit the interstate and then get back on the interstate at the next on ramp. I'm not sure why we did that, but I have learned to follow directions and you won't get lost. The POI software is great, I installed it and thought it was a joke at first, but then I discovered that between Mapquest and Google Earth, I can locate anything, then I can get the Lat. and Long. and convert that to the decimal lat. and long. and I can enter my own POIs. Then using this system I can create trips using the POI editor, you can just name POIs stop 1, stop 2, etc. Ok now for the complaints; To use a voice command you have to say the word "Magellan" and the unit responds with "Say a command." Sometimes it will respond with "Say a command" while you are talking to someone in your vehicle. I am sure it hears something that sounds like someone said "Magellan" and it is doing what it is programmed to do, but sometimes is gets a little annoying. The other problem is sometimes the unit seems to lock up. On several occasions I have had to wait several minutes for my 4250 to respond and allow me to enter an address or intersection. It has never happened at a critical time while I was driving, each time it has happened I was sitting still. This is a computer, and sometimes computers get conflicting instructions. I have not had to turn the unit off yet to clear a problem, but I think it gets confused sometimes. Over all, I like my 4250 a lot, and if I had it to do all over again, I would definitely buy another 4250. Rating:  - I upgraded, and regret it, read this!I had the lower model Maestro 3250 and Loved it. I gave it to my daughter as she will be moving out soon, and I upgraded to the 4250 for the bluetooth capability as well as the voice recognition which would be great. Well, it's NOT! The bluetooth volume is so low you cannot hear the caller. The volume is set all the way up and it is completely unusable! Worthless bluetooth! The voice command is also very bothersome! You cannot insert an address by voice which is the most cumbersome thing you have to do with the GPS. Plus it often asks for a voice command while I am talking to a passenger. There are no voice command instructions in the manual so you have to try about a thousand words to try to access the voice command mode. Once you learn that the access word is "Magellan" it is more usable, however while carrying on a conversation with other people in the car, the dang GPS recognizes some word as "Magellan"! and asks for a voice command! Very Irritating!!!!!!! It does have many more points of interest than the 3250 had and it also announces the street name of your next turn which is very helpful versus simply turn left. I would recommend another model with many points of interest, but avoid the bluetooth and voice commands.
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