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My son has been very happy with this gift. Only wishes the screen was bigger. Was a great price.
I called Magellan and they said it would cost more to fix it than it cost. It then began locking on previous destinations and it took minutes for the unit to re-program.
It was such a mistake. The day I got it I drove 3 blocks then put in my home address.
I researched GPS' before settling on this one, as it received good reviews. One time it took me to the airport parking lot instead of my destination five miles away.
It got me to the intersection then said to turn left - my house was on the right. It would not re-route me if I made a mistake - just kept telling me to turn around.
Finally, after 18 months, it froze permanently. I purchased a Garmin Nuvi and love it.
Magellan rocks. I love every feature of it. Touchscreen is not so responsive after iPhone but the routing is just great. I bought second TomTom for my wife but had to return back as TomTom just sucks comparing to Magellan
[4] Non-existent Magellan customer service.[5] Slow GPS acquisition.[6] No MP3 support.This will be my last Magellan product. Though the product is fine there are some quirks that everyone should know about - [1] Wall Charger is not included. I bought this Costco and have used it fairly across USA and Canada. Period. Unit takes around 3 hours in the car to be charged completely.[2] Updates need a full battery. Quite difficult if you dont have an AC Charger.[3] Map updates cost $79.99. I dont think I will ever pay to update a closed dedicated piece of hardware. A good day-to-day example would be Microsoft charging you $$$$$ to send OS updates.
Most times it will get you to your destination, but I find myself printing online directions as a backup, just in case. A few times we have asked it directions to a place we know very well and asked for quickest route and it gave us the longest and most complex route possible.
But if you want a GPS that gets you from point A to point B without any issues then I would look elsewhere. If you want a GPS that gets you from point A to point B then this does that.
And it doesn't always give the best directions. It sometimes has issues where it seems to not know where it is.
A few times when leaving our house it was convinced we were in a completely different state and it didn't update to our actual location until half an hour later. I just really expected more from it.
I wish we had purchased a different GPS.
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