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Electronics : Magellan Crossover 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Road and Trail Navigator |
- Crossover does so indeed but Magellan wants you to buy more.I got a great deal on my crossover at Walmart. I got it on clearance for $130. If it were more than $150 I would not have bought it. At the time of purchase I had already done some reshearch on it. I knew that for the marine Mapping / chartting I would have to buy more detailed maps.
I have compared it side by side with my Garmin c550 while driving. It is not as user friendly as my Garmin. This is becuase it requires more detailed address information. At the same time The magellan has succeed at finding the correct location where the garmin has failed. One example is when There was a north "230" and south "230" address on the same road.
The garmin has problems with this.
For the magellan the 3D view is poor. The reason is because of the prospective. garmin choose not to show all the way to the virtual horision which is good because you do not need to see that far away. The magellan does show the horision making it difficult to see future turns. At the same time the Garmin has a virtual viewing point of lets say 30 feet above the car. This means you can see turns coming up better. The magellan has an virtual prospective much lower to virtual car. This makes it harder to see future turns coming up.
I was able to navigate the magellan web page. I was able to get one free map update for my garmin with online product registration. I found that I will have to pay for a map update on the magellan web page. I did send an e mail asking them why they won't give me a fee map update, after all who wants to but something that has old maps. Which this magellan has, it is espically bad because of changes made to the roads in northern indiania and 355 in illinois. Oh and yea no reply from magellan
Online I found an upgrade for the virtual 3D map Prospective, making it easier to see and making the magellan more like the garmin prospective. But there was a price I think it was for $130?? for a little more you can just buy a new cheaper gps.
When you turn on the magellan there are 3 modes of operation car boat outdoor. boat and outdoor are almost the same. I have not bought any maps for the boat or outdoor. luckily lake michigan dose have a profile in the magellan crossover. it is not a very good one but at least I can set way points and get around. When driving a boat do not look at the gps like it is the same as looking out the front window. Take it slow at night and don't run into any break walls. No I have not done this I have a sailboat and go Slow.
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- good buyworks well, used it both hiking and driving. Navigation instructions aren't perfect, but I know some shortcuts the computer doesn't.
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- Poor maps - customer serviceHad the unit less than 30 days - have 21 map version - most recent 32 - Magellan wants $80 to update, also outofdate firmware - can't process update on website as indicated, technical support no support at all. . Several addresses and cities are not found in the system that are located on OnStar/TomTom/Garmin systems. Have requested customer service assistance 3 times - still have not heard. Can't return it to the store as over 15 days since purchase.
WOULD NOT BUY AGAIN
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- Promises a lot.This unit just doesn't live up to all of the promises made in the advertisements. It does do a lot of different things, but nothing well.
I could not get it to lock onto a signal properly and when it did it quickly lost it. Returned it to the dealer with no problem.
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- Very good, except limited data base on points of interestI bought this unit because I am interested in both automobile navigation and geocaching. I am very happy with this GPS. It is much better than the my previous (Ostia) GPS. The Magellan Crossover GPS works well in automobile navigation routing and re-routing, with good accuracy. The voice directions are accurate and clear with good volume. For geocaching, I have used it successfully to find three new geocaches. The only flaw that I have noticed in the Magellan Crossover GPS is a limited data base on points of interest. For example, for the restaurant data base it appears to list mostly fast food restaurants.
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