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Magellan Maestro 3250 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Traffic and Voice Command

RatingCustomer rating is 4 of 5
BrandMagellan
List Price$449.99
Special Price
Lowest New Price$134.99
Lowest Used Price$94.00
Lowest Refurbished Price$124.99
Features
  • 3.5-inch QVGA full-color, anti-glare, touch-screen display
  • 6 Million Searcheable Points of Interest:
  • AAA TourBook guide travel information
  • SmartDetour prompts drivers to route around heavy or stopped freeway traffic
  • Newly designed, intuitive user interface makes the Maestro series the easiest to use
Categories Portable Vehicle GPS   Vehicular GPS   Traffic Enabled   Voice Command   20 Inches & Under   3.5 Inch   3 to 3.9 Inches   1 to 4 Hours   North America   2006   12 Inches & Under  

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Description

The Magellan Maestro 3250 GPS system proposes one of the much intuitive and aspect rich journey experiences out there, and together with a cost this makes the competitors tremble. Together with an included AAA TourBook Guide, SayWhere topic to speech delivery and Exist traffic reporting ability, and BlueTooth connectivity and Hands free calling features, the Maestro 3250 is popping up in new vehicles and pockets daily.Together with Voice Command and Control say something to your Magellan 3250 to access your much popularly used functions and navigation systems. Use your voice to locate the nearest coffee shops, restaurants, hotels, gas stations, bank machines and extra. Speak to your Maestro 3250 and ask for you exact geographical setting, how much longer and the distance to your desired locations and so much extra together with this great voice recognition system.Browse the special AAA TourBook and collaborate together with users to get ratings and reviews on hotels, restaurants and extra. Locate excellent discounts and coupons as well to these points of interest along your journeys.
We've been big fans of Magellan's Maestro line since it came out in early 2006. The Maestro interface is incredibly simple to use, even for those who are not fully comfortable together with electronics. At the same time, Magellan was ahead of the industry together with useful improvements like multi-destination routing and pre-loaded reviews for points of interest like hotels and restaurants (from AAA). Together with its 3200 and 4200 series, Magellan has improved the Maestro line giving them a SirfStar III chipset this offers super-quick. satellite lock and making them thinner. In fact, at .7 inches, these are -- at the time of this writing (November 2007), the thinnest portable GPS navigators available. Distinguishing between models is in addition fairly simple.

3200 and 4200 Family of Navigators
Distinguishing between models is in addition fairly simple. The 3200-series navigators aspect a 3.5-inch screen, while the 4200s have a 4.3-inch widescreen display. The 3200 and 4200 propose excellent, basic navigation together with turn-by-turn spoken directions, pre-loade maps of the 48 contiguous United States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, and 1.3 million POIs. The 3210 and 4210, add maps for Canada and Alaska, AAA journey information (see details below) and bump you up to 6 million POIs. The 3220 and 4220 add maps of Mexico. The top-of-the-line 3250 and 4250 add a host of other features, counting topic-to-speech directions this provide real street names, Bluetooth for hands-free phone calls, included traffic (together with a free 3-month subscription), and voice command.

What Makes the Maestro 3250 Unprecedented?

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Route method screen

Simple to use navigation features SmartDetour and auto re-route. View big.
AAA information screen

Access built-in AAA information from your GPS touch screen. View big.

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Simple To Use Interface
The intuitive customer interface makes the Maestro series incredibly simple to use. Use the big icons on the 3.5-inch touch screen to search for your destination by address, intersection, or any of 6 million points of interest (POIs), counting restaurants, hotels, airports, gas stations, and extra. You can even touch an onscreen icon for a nearby destination, see name and address, and get an instantaneous route. Turn by turn visual and spoken directions guide you each step of the way.

Auto re-route gets you shortly back on track whenever you do a detour or miss a turn. QuickSpell aspect intelligently searches and checks spelling when you enter addresses. The 3250 propose multiple view options, counting 2D, 3D, and TrueView this shows your upcoming turn utilizing a 3D split screen. Maneuver List displays the full turn-by-turn details of your route. Auto night view adjusts color and contrast for simple night viewing.

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Click to see a video on the Magellan Maestro 3250's Voice Command system.
Voice Command and Control
Voice Command further enables hands-free operation so you can keep your eyes on the road. Say a command to access the much used navigation functions. Locate the nearest coffee, restaurant, gas and ATM or get an instantaneous route home. In addition, you can ask for your setting, the distance to your destination and shortly get details for the nearest roadside assistance and extra, all together with the sound of your voice.

AAA-enabled
Together with built-in AAA journey information, the Maestro 4250 provides you instantaneous access to the much trusted source for trip planning, searchable AAA TourBook listings, Show Your Card & Save locations for member discounts, approved auto repair facilities, attractions, events, and extra. The Maestro 3250 in addition offers AAA members roadside assistance details, together with exact setting and a toll-free number. In addition, the Maestro 3250 is Bluetooth-enabled so you can connect your Bluetooth cell phone directly to AAA for immediate help when you want it much.

Note: AAA member roadside assistance requires AAA membership.

Bluetooth for Hands-Free Calling
The Maestro 3250's Bluetooth wireless technology lets you do hands-free phone calls together with your Bluetooth-enabled phone. You can store or sync numbers and contact information throughout the simple-to-use touch screen, and even situate calls directly throughout the Maestro 3250's included microphone and speakers.

Included Real-Time Traffic
The included traffic receiver proposes onscreen RDS-TMC traffic incident reports in real-time. A free 3-month traffic service subscription makes it simple to avoid accidents, slow downs, road closures, severe weather and extra. Your Maestro 3250 automatically recalculates your estimated time of arrival based on traffic conditions and prompts you to reroute when a quicker way is available.

side view
One of the thinnest portable GPS navigators on the market
Get It Anyplace
The 3250 is super-thin, lightweight and fits effortlessly into any pocket. The included rechargeable battery enables you to operate the Maestro 3250 away from your vehicle for up to three hours. The battery recharges while driving via the integrated vehicle power adapter.

Tons of Data
The 3250 comes pre-loaded together with Navteq maps of the United States and Canada, and 6 million points of interest (POIs). POI data consists of telephone numbers and addresses.

It in addition has an Address Book in which you can make and store POIs and addresses this you use frequently.

Flexible Routing
The 3250 offers a particularly large number of routing features important to its cost point. Multi-destination routing lets you pick and choose up to 20 destinations and locate the excellent route to get to all of them. SmartDetour prompts you to route all-around heavy or stopped freeway traffic.Customizable route methods let you select between several different routing methods, counting "Fastest Time", "Shortest Distance", "Least or Much Use of Freeways", and "Avoid Toll Roads". Route exclusion lets you pick streets and freeways you would like to avoid.
What's in the Box
Magellan Maestro 3250 GPS receiver, Adhesive disk for dash mounting, Basic cradle, Vehicle power adapter (12-24 watts), Fast reference guide and CD, Windshield mount

Optional Accessories
AC Wall power source/charger, USB data cable

Concerning Magellan
Magellan is a leader in the consumer, survey, GIS, and OEM GPS navigation and placement markets. Recognized as an industry innovator, the Company is the creator of the prize-winning Magellan RoadMate series and the Magellan Maestro portable car navigation systems, the Magellan eXplorist and the Magellan Triton outdoor handheld navigation devices, and the Hertz NeverLost car navigation system, the excellent-selling single frequency GPS survey product line on the market. The Magellan Maestro series consists of such distinctive features as built-in AAA journey information and voice command and control driving which no other portable GPS manufacturer in the U.S. or Canada proposes. The company is recognized worldwide throughout its Magellan brand and has experienced dramatic revenue growth as GPS technology has proliferated across a range of consumer and commercial applications. The Company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California together with European headquarters in Carquefou, France.

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Customer Reviews

Customer rating is 3 of 5  Great GPS, but doesn't last long   2010-01-14
By Alice Q. Schwarz (Hou)
I got this GPS as a graduation present, it started shutting down within a year. The charging port got disconnected, so it wouldn't charge, and when it did have some battery life left when it was plugged in to charge it would say 'USB connected' and would not work at all.

However, I loved it while it lasted and I will buy another Magellan in the future. Magellan is superior to TomTom as far as ease-of-use and finding places. I could type in a place's name and it could find it quickly, or I could look under categories. I like how it could list the types of restaurants, including more exotic foreign cuisines. I was never frustrated with Magellan, it doesn't have hidden buttons, there is a menu button to go back to the main menu. You can adjust the volume from the map screen and It is easy to glance at and understand while driving.
Customer rating is 3 of 5  major issues with entering addresses   2009-12-27
By Jen F. (Atlanta, GA)
I got this model for some it's features like the traffic and AAA tourbook information. While it's not a bad model overall, I had one major difficulty. This model wants you to enter the street name before the street number. Often, I would enter "Main Street" and would then get two or more options that I would then have to choose from such as "Main Street NE" and "Main Street SE." This would happen when the address I was trying to get to did not list a NE or SE so I didn't know which one to choose. I could go onto Google Maps or Mapquest and type in "100 Main Street" and get directions with no problem, but the GPS would not let me simply enter "100 Main Street." I live in Atlanta and the roads here are not based on a grid system as in some cities where "100 Main Street NE" and "100 Main Stree NW" would be two different locations. I have since switched to using a Garmin model and haven't had this problem since you can enter a street number before the street name.

I didn't think the traffic feature was all that great. Sometimes it worked fine and other times I'd be sitting in a traffic jam and it said there were no traffic incidents in the area. The POI feature was also lacking. I could ask it to find, say, the nearest Target to me. I could be sitting in front of a Target and it would direct me to one 5 miles away. I have yet to see how the Garmin's traffic and POI features are so I can't say whether this problem is exclusive to Magellan.
Customer rating is 4 of 5  Good bang for your buck.   2009-12-21
By Souvik Ghosh
This thing kept most of the the promises that it made in its product catalog. Only con though, I would say it takes time to understand the region change. We live in CA and went to FL. It took long time to understand where we were and returned the results really late. We had to enter the new address 4 to 5 times. Same thing happened when we came back to CA. Another con, though it says it takes voice commands, but this feature is pretty messed up. Very rarely it acts properly on voice command. Other than these I would say this is pretty nice with features like speaks the directions and Bluetooth some of the things we were looking for.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  Magellan 3250   2009-11-22
By Gary (Florida, USA)
Super easy to use and excellent maps. I did take advantage of Magellans offer to update the installed maps. The maps were great before I did and excellent and totally up to date since I did. Due to an emergency the other night I had to go to to a new neigborhood and street that I did not know. All I had to do was turn the unit on, input the new address and go. Within minutes I was at ther front door. Again a new neighborhood and street and my 3250 brought me right to it! The sound is good and the unit names the streets clearly. This is not my first GPS but it is by far my best. The screen is bright and clear even in the bright sun. As to what I have read about poor or no customer service I do not agree. I have had no issues with customer service and have found them very responsive even though it appears that I may have been speaking to service agents off shore. They have handled all my questions quickly and professionally including the updating of my maps. There is a $10.00 charge for the current update when you purchase a new unit but well worth it. The POI of interest are plentifull and current. This is a great GPS that offers all that you may need. If this unit does not have it, you probably do not need it. I have not tried the traffic servce yet and probably will not.
Customer rating is 4 of 5  Very good after sell support   2009-11-18
By Mohammad H. Pourhashemi
I was able to get update map, very good customer service,
web sit can be improved.



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