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| Magellan Maestro 4700 4.7-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator |
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| Manufacturer: Magellan |
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| List Price: $299.99 |
| Sale Price: $149.99 |
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Product Description |
The premium Magellan Maestro 4700 GPS device boasts the acclaimed and exclusive OneTouch favorites menu and an ultra-slim 4.7-inch color touch screen. Preloaded NAVTEQ maps and six million points of interest for the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico make the Magellan Maestro 4700 GPS product ideal for both business trips and vacations. Easy-to-use premium features, such as AAA TourBook, voice command, highway lane assist, predictive traffic, and Bluetooth compatibility for hands-free calling, give you confidence on the road and deliver an exceptional navigation experience.  | Exclusive OneTouch Favorites Menu Easily bookmark favorite destinations and searches with personalized bookmarks so you can find them anywhere you travel. Find your favorite cafe or restaurant in any city with a single touch. The Magellan Maestro 4700 device definitely delivers "your favorites at your fingertips." |  |  | Exclusive AAA TourBook Guide No membership required. Invaluable to anyone who travels, the AAA TourBook guide, which contains information on all 50 states and Canada, is built into your Magellan Maestro 4700 and provides ratings and descriptions on AAA approved places to stay, play, dine, and save. |  |  | 4.7-inch Touch Screen The wide, ultra-slim 4.7-inch color touch screen shows your position on the unit including map route, destination, ETA, Points of Interest (POI), OneTouch favorites, street names, and more--all at a glance. The large 4.7-inch screen is 16% larger than a 4.3-inch screen. |  |  | 6 Million Points of Interest (POI) Easily find whatever service you need. Gas stations, restaurants, hotels, ATMs, and hundreds of other businesses are intuitively categorized and searchable from the built-in POI database. |  |  | Voice Command Safely navigate hands-free by speaking a variety of commands to control the Maestro 4700. You can "Go Home" or find the "Nearest Gas" just by using your voice. |  |  | Highway Lane Assist Realistic highway signs point you in the right direction when approaching interchanges and exits, ensuring that you'll choose the correct lane well before your next turn. |  |  | Bluetooth Compatibility Easily make or receive calls using a compatible cell phone and even synch up to 1000 numbers directly from your phone. Plus, the noise cancelling microphone keeps road noise down so you are heard clearly. |  |  | Predictive Traffic It automatically analyzes past traffic patterns when creating a route to help you avoid known delays, saving you time and making your journey less stressful. Choose to stay on your current route or go with the new less-traveled route. |  |  | Highway Exit POI Search Search for gas stations, restaurants, hotels, and more near upcoming highway exits. |  |  | QuickSpell with SmartCity Search Enter destinations with only a few touches. QuickSpell with SmartCity search helps you quickly enter addresses and narrow location searches, making destination entry easy. |  |  | Multi-destination Routing Plan a trip with multiple stops in the order you want, or have it optimized for the most efficient route. Easily reorganize, add, or remove destinations. |  |  | Spoken Street Name Guidance Hear street names and directions for a clear understanding of when to make the next turn, while you keep your eyes on the road. | |  | 3D Landmarks Visual cues, such as stadiums and bridges, let you navigate safely and easily. |  |  | Find your Car Easily remember the location of your car in parking lots, airports, malls, universities, amusement parks, or stadiums. When your day is done, the Maestro 4700 will automatically guide you to your car. | |  | NAVTEQ Maps Travel the entire United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada with all the maps you need, pre-loaded on your device. |  | What's in the Box? Magellan Maestro 4700 GPS receiver; pre-loaded maps of United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico; windshield mount; adhesive disc for dash mounting; vehicle power adapter; USB cable; user handbook; user manual on CD-ROM. Visit MagellanGPS.com for the latest software update for your Maestro 4700 to keep it current and performing at its best.
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Product Details |
- Ultra-slim GPS device with 4.7-inch color touchscreen, personalized OneTouch search, spoken street name guidance, Bluetooth capability, voice command and more
- Multi-destination routing with route optimization lets you plan the most efficient trip
- Highway lane assist points you in the right direction when approaching interchanges and exits
- QuickSpell with SmartCity search narrows your address and city searches Highway exit points of interest (POI) search lists upcoming gas stations, restaurants, hotels, and more near highway exits
- Includes maps of United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico
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Lookout Garmin !!
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| Review Date: August 4, 2009 |
| Reviewer: dbeofam, Owings, MD United States |
| In addition to this Magellan, I also own a Garmin Nuvi (200W series). The Magellan simply is better in every category I can think of. Much more customizable map display options, better speaker, bigger screen, "one touch" programmable buttons, much faster satellite aquisition, and more. I just came back from a 1500 mile round trip that had a destination of a remote lake house outside of Atlanta. My wife's built in Toyota GPS didn't even recognize the address. This unit brought us to the driveway! This is a very advanced unit at a rediculous low price. The lane assist was great on a trip like this, as was the highway exit information button. I've had a number of GPS units and this one is by far the best so far. Highly recommended. |
It's a winner!
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| Review Date: November 13, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Jim, Houston, TX USA |
This GPS gives intelligent routing and is very easy to use. I compared it in road tests with a Garmin 765T. I'm returning the Garmin.
I am not intending to try to disparage Garmin here. I'm hoping to let you know with what I am comparing this GPS when I say it is excellent. After all, only these two GPS'es comprise my hands-on experience with such units.
The benefit I want most from a GPS is accurate navigation assistance. Magellan delivers on this and the Garmin does not. That's about it and that's my main point. The Magellan excelled at keeping me on the best roads and getting me to my destinations with minimal stress and frustration. The Garmin 765T often told me to turn one way while the arrow pointed the other way and seems to prefer looping FAR around cities regardless of the chosen routing options and traffic conditions. The Garmin even took me off interstates for no reason and then put me back on the same road 20 miles later to continue the trip.
Garmin support told me to set "via" points to stop this problem but I prefer to just send it back and stick with the 4700 that requires less fiddling.
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a REALLY good/great GPS, a great value for the money!
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| Review Date: December 27, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Radio Man, NY, USA |
I want to first say that I have had three Garmins prior to this Magellan 4700. I have always been curious about Magellan but somehow always heard Garmin was the leader in GPS. The reason I bought this 4700 is I had/have the Garmin Nuvi 880 which about a year ago was the top of Garmin's line and SUPER expensive. I like the Garmin very much but from day one it was a bit unstable...freezes a lot..need to take the battery in/out. The Garmin gave very little notice when quick turns were coming up..I missed SO many exits with the Garmin..I finally decided to try a Magellan,the 4700. WOW, I was pleasantly surprised at the ease of use of this Magellan. The quick spelling THING works amazingly well and FAST! Most importantly the Magellan compared to the Nuvi 880 is just better for navigation and NOT missing exits..and NOT freezing. The Magellan gives a lot of notice before a turn is coming up..lane assist is quite helpful..and that little bell that will chime before a turn is also quite helpful. Really the only thing I miss most on the Garmin are the custom favorites YOU input will show how far they are from your current location and OTHER FAVORITES!. I am in sales, and had a new sales route given to me in the last year. I saved about 80 customers into the Garmin. Once on the road I could see how far customer A is to customer B and so on. The Magellan can NOT do this. You save your CUSTOM favorites to the address book in the 4700. But in the address book it never shows how FAR "each custom favorite is to the NEXT one". It can only show your custom favorite's location to your current location Not how far to the OTHER favorites you saved. Other than that missing feature..I LOVE the Magellan...it is stable and has been very accurate, gets a gps signal MUCH faster than all my Garmins did. One last thing..the voice in the Magellan is not as clear as Garmin's..BUT it's quite understandable and it TALKS much more than the Garmin. For the money I feel this Magellan is GREAT and = to the best Garmins or BETTER yet WAAAAY easier to use and in my case MUCH more stable. You really can't go wrong with this GPS in my opinion.. I highly recommend this Magellan overall!
(PS if anyone knows how to transfer Garmin waypoints .gpx(favorites) into this Magellan I would love to know how... |
Everything I expected and more!!!
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| Review Date: November 5, 2009 |
| Reviewer: David Kurisu, Robins, IA, US |
***First Impressions***
This is my first GPS unit and I am loving it. I reviewed several devices (Garmin, TomTom, etc) through various websites and user reviews. I happen to come across the Magellan Maestro 4700 by accident. I was actually ready to purchase a Garmin unit at Best Buy and the sales rep turned me to the Magellan units. Needless to say, I held off on my purchase and came across this site which had a great price tag versus Best Buy.
Out-of-the-box:
The Maestro 4700 is well packaged versus some of the horror stories I've come across on the TomTom units. The only gripe I have is there's no home outlet charger for the Maestro 4700. They are sold separately.
Features I Loved:
(1) Multi destination option
(2) Loud voice (some people have said they have a hard time hearing the voice while listening to the car radio. I have no problems when it comes to hearing the voice prompts and have yet to maxing out the volume setting.
(3) Route tells you on which side of the road your destination is located(this was a major selling point for me on the Garmin units)
(4) Adaptive routing selection (my first chance to test the routing feature was from work to home and the 4700 had me turn on a street before the one I lived on. I continued past that street and in 1-2 seconds it had updated itself to turn on my street. The next day coming home from work it routed correctly and hasn't been a problem since.
(5) There is a pedestrian mode
(6) Extensive POI database
(7) POI icons can be displayed on the screen, such as Starbucks in the area.
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Setup was very easy and there is a firmware update which took me less than 10-minutes to add. The display is a nice size and is not difficult to see or watch while driving. Some reviewers mentioned the brightness of the Home screen while in night mode. I didn't find this to be a problem at all. It picks up satellite reception quickly and re-routes in 1-2 seconds after missing your turn.
My first real road test will be this weekend and a major road test will be next month when I drive to Chicago, IL. My only unanswered concern deals with reception... reception in a major city and reception in poor weather (heavy rain, over-cast day and heavy snow). I'll be sure to provide updates on what I come across. Feel free to chat me at [...], if you have questions on whether the Maestro 4700 is for you. |
Works great
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| Review Date: October 2, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Hellen Mae Gisclair, CA, USA |
| I don't know what i would do with out this GPS i'm in the Air Force and move around alot or go on road trips. I love how it has AAA info. on it i thnk that's what like the best about it. Also i can type in walmart with a space or with out one and it pulls it up. it's so easy to find what i'm looking for and the maps are great on it too. |
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