Magellan Maestro 3100 3 5 Inch Portable GPS Navigator
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.
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars Decent Unit, But Flawed
I bought this unit a year ago, and it did decently. However, it tended to recommend routes that really didn’t make sense at times. After my son’s recent usage to navigate home from his honeymoon destination he complained that it needed updating. Soooooo, armed with access to the Magellan web site I set out to update my unit. There are two updates available: a free download to update the firmware, add points of interest (POIs) and add Hawaii and Puerto Rico maps. There’s also updated North American maps available for a cost of $79.99 ($67.99 for AAA members).
Here’s where the fun began. First–the free update only works with Windows XP (according to Magellan’s web site). I’m running XP, so no problem. And, it’s massive (over 900 MB) takes a long time to download even with fast DSL, dialup–FUGGEDABOUTIT!!!
I connected the unit with the USB cable and the fun began. The added hardware wizard in XP never seemed to run quite properly. Made it seem like I had two new drives hooked to the computer. Onward, I slogged.
When I started the update program (which I had previously unzipped) it then started to uzip itself even more. SHEESH
It hit the POI update file (a monstrous 898MB) and took 20+ minutes to upzip it.
I then got several error messages that stopped the whole update process.
Oh, it also erased the unit’s firmware. I now had a big fat paperweight.
A quick Google search found several sites warning folks about doing this update.
Luckily, I stumbled across a site with instructions on how to manually update the unit. Three hours from when I started I finally had an updated unit.
I can hardly wait until the map update arrives!!!! More to come—
1 Star It will break avoid!
This is a terrible product mainly due to the power connector I’ve had this unit less than a year and it already can’t be charged without constantly messing with the power connector. It died on me in the city today and I had a very hard time getting home as a result of this. When the unit worked it was great but the build quality is dismal.
1 Star Expensive paper weight
Read my lips: DO NOT BUY THIS UNIT!
I have only used the Maestro 3100 maybe 5 times. It is now broken.
Here’s the deal: It has a built-in rechargeable battery, so you can use it portably. But guess what! Once that battery fails to hold any charge whatsoever, the whole unit won’t work! It will not turn on for more than 5 seconds, then goes into standby.
You know when I decided to buy this GPS, I wasn’t going to go hiking, I just want it to sit on my dashboard of my car and use it while being plugged in. I could give a rats a_ss about using it outdoors.
My unit hasn’t been working for well over 5 months, the unit is 13 months old. Unfortunately my unit is out of warranty by 1 month and their tech support would only sell me another new or used unit at a discount.
PLEASE TAKE IT FROM MY BAD EXPERIENCE: DONT BUY ANY MAGELLAN PRODUCT EVER!!!!!
I heard Garmins are the way to go.
If this review prevents one customer from throwing their money away on buying a Magellan product, then the 5 minutes I spent writing this review was well worth it.
5 Stars Fantastic liitle life saver!
All I can say is I love this product! I bought it for an incredibliy low price considering everything I got. They were quick getting it to me and I have been using it since. It is so easy to use and it doesnt constantly bother you with messages but gives you enough heads up which is very effective. I love it and have recommended this model and where I got it from to my family and friends. It’s Awesome.
5 Stars Beacon in the dark! (lol)
Moved to Minnesota and with all the changes of the roads up here, it is safe to say that it has saved us many gallons of gas and hours of time! easy to mount and read with a pleasant voice. an excellant buy that is easy to recommend to friends!
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