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Magellan Maestro 3100 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator
From Magellan
List Price: $349.99
Price: $145.99

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Customer Reviews

Very nice….and reasonable
I Purchased the Maestro 3100 in July 2008, and put it to use right away. It was great, right out of the box…simple to use, and responsive.

Two things could be improved…the volume (maxed out) is very difficult to hear over the radio (turned low), and also, someone having a phone conversation in your vehicle.

The display colors could be more vibrant…they get washed out in sunlight…but, for the price ($129.00), it is a very good buy, and gets the job done.

Gerald J. Cifaldi

Best entry level GPS out there
WOW. You can get this GPS for a song and it has everything you need to get going right out of the box. It might not have some of the features that some of the other higher priced units have but I like to use my other devices for phone and mp3 playing anyway. Text to speech is also not on this device but not needed at all. A chime rings when you need to turn, plus it gives you plenty of warning.

Only thing I would change is the low number of POI’s. Other than that. This is a great little unit.

A great value for the money, and has saved me $
I bought this late in 2007 to help me from getting lost in Fairfax County VA. Since then, I’ve moved to Florida, and it’s just as useful here. BUT YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE MECHANICAL LADY. She is almost always right. I was lost one night trying to find a body shop that I’d been to several times during the day. The Magellan kept telling me to make unfamiliar turns and I was sure it was taking me on a wild goose chase. Nope, almost at the point where I was sure the thing was wrong, it said, “you have reached your destination,” and there was the body shop!

I lent the unit to a German-born retired Florida Sheriff’s Deputy. He was slightly confused on how to get from my home to his late at night. So I pulled the Magellan off the windshield of my car, and then thought to myself, “this isn’t going to work because Johann will never obey the lady: he’s a cop and a German to boot (and they never obey anyone.)”

So I told Johann to do whatever the lady said, even if he thought the lady was wrong. Yup, in about 1 mile Johann thought the lady was wrong, and she insisted that he make a legal U-turn. Eventually he did, and the unit took him flawlessly to his front door. HE WAS AMAZED WHEN THE LADY SAID, “YOU HAVE REACHED YOUR FINAL DESTINATION.”

The only reason why I did not give the unit 5 stars is because it’s not good on way-points, and once in a while, it does take you down a dead end street. I think that’s because that street became a dead-ended when the housing industry slumped in Florida.